As we drown in information and disinformation,
we starve for cultural homes for the cultivation of wisdom…
What’s needed is communities that home ecologies of practices
that reconnect people with their meaning-making processes.
— John Vervaeke
Prologue: What is wiser?
We want to help helpi Web3-enabled communities, especially DAOs become wiser together. Hence the question, what is wiser?
A person and a collective entity are wiser than they were if their actions and mental maps reflect a deeper, more accurate sense of the territory, and their decisions can enliven more people and organizations.
We don’t yet know what becoming wiser takes but discovering it is getting more urgent than ever, given the perfect storm towering over humanity’s horizon. The good news is that humanity has never created a challenge that it couldn’t meet. The emergence of DAOs gives hope for continuing that track record.
Invitation
The Web3 era opened new possibilities on our evolutionary journey. One of them is the possibility of discovering how we can be wiser together and more capable of meeting the challenges coming from the perfect storm of humanity’s multiple crises that aggravate each other. It’s like a collective intelligence test that has enormous stakes. Failing it will mean whole system breakdowns.
Succeeding will mean a breakthrough to the transition to a next-stage world that some call the Wisdom Age and others call “decentralized autonomous society,” “regenerative society,” “post-capitalism,” “commons-oriented society” or a “more conscious society”. All those labels express different aspects of possible futures, which have one thing in common: achieving them will require a radical enhancement of our individual and collective wisdom.
Have you ever wondered how Web3 and DAOs can contribute to such a breakthrough? With all the money and minds working for tech development, isn’t it a shame that none of our tools is optimized for augmenting our collective intelligence and wisdom? On those rare occasions when such augmentation happens, it’s more like a “side effect,” an unintended, aleatory consequence of discovering a new use of our tools.
In DAOs we can grow competence in upping our collective intelligence and enhancing our collective wisdom to the requisite level to deal with the larger issues. But that can’t happen just by itself. Even if it could, it would risk going too slowly.
That’s why we invite a few Web3 organizations to embark on a collaborative learning expedition to research and develop the socio-technical protocols necessary for amplifying their collective wisdom. If we triggered your imagination, or at least curiosity about what such a protocol could make possible for your organization (and the rest of us), read on.
In the first phase of this project, we aim to develop a conceptual framework adequate for the need to design the R&D phase.
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION
Can wisdom be collective?
Be like a tree…
Wisdom, once attributed to sages, seems to enjoy a growing currency in our increasingly turbulent times. As of today, a Google search turned up 656 million hits (doubling the hit count of just 5 years ago), and even “wisdom age” garnered 224,000 hits, and “wisdom culture” resulted in 91,900.
As doomsday scenarios multiply, no wonder that more and more people are asking, anyway, what is wisdom and how can it help us? If you’re reading Enhancing Wisdom in Web3 Organizations, chances are that question crossed your mind too.
There are zillions of definitions of wisdom, as well as academic departments, books, and conferences dedicated to it. Looking at it through the lens of different contexts and disciplines, we find different definitions. In the context of the “Enhancing Wisdom in Web3 Organizations,” we suggest a description as follows.
Wisdom is our capacity to align our values and action with life’s core principle of creating conditions conducive to more life. In our turbulent times of galloping complexity and entangled global crises, to be wise is also “to align our understanding and action with more of what’s going on and more of what’s needed as we seek to ensure beneficial outcomes over the long haul,” as Tom Atlee wrote in ‘The Nature of Wisdom in a Wise Democracy.
People, communities, and organizations are wiser when their views and decisions serve both the well-being and well-becoming of all, by taking into account more of the interdependent contexts and long-term consequences of their actions. Even the wisest individuals can have only a very limited capacity to account for transcontextual variables in the consequences, compared with the potential of a wisdom-inspired collective entity.
“So the wisdom we’re seeking is necessarily co-created by diverse people and firmly grounded in an expanded sense of reality – especially embracing the aliveness of human and natural systems and interactions.” —Tom Atlee
How can we foster that capacity? By making room for more energy, meaning, and inspiration to flow through ourselves, our relationships, and collectives. We can do that by contributing to deepen, widen, and multiply the enlivening flows illustrated by the video animation you can find if you click on that link and scroll down.
Walking up the steep slope of a hillside, I feel my heart working harder to send oxygen-rich fresh blood into my muscles. I feel enlivened by the joyous experience of participating in the mystery of being alive.
When we turn a confrontational situation that threatens a breakdown in the relationship between two or more of us into a breakthrough by discovering and adhering to federative principles that bridge our differences, we feel the social field connecting us enlivened with new possibilities.
When DAOistas come together at a Schelling Point and explore the future of open source software in self-sustaining, community-owned DAOs or other issues that matter to them, then the whole DAOsphere is lighting up and growing more alive with excitement.
All these examples were made possible by people holding a broader perspective than what their “small self” would have done. The broader, the more encompassing perspective one can sense, think, and act from in an omniharmonic way, the wiser that person/community will be.
We borrowed the term “omniharmonic” from Benjamin Life, who uses it as his Twitter handle and describes it in his Welcome message on Substack as follows. “Omniharmonic is an ongoing domain of inquiry, specifically exploring: how can I live in harmony with all that is? How can I create what is mine to create in a form that is harmonic with Life’s patterns and principles? How can my perception of what is dissonant or disharmonious be an access point for the perception of higher harmonies?”
Wisdom can’t be planned for
Try to grasp wisdom and it will ooze out between your fingers. Yet, you recognize it when you come across a wise person that makes you feel connected with your own (hunger for) wisdom. Did you come across any wise community? What do you think, what would you feel if you would have?
Wisdom is a self-sustaining, self-improving, self-evolving, and self-propagating quality of a mindfully lived life, individual or collective. (The meaning of those four generative attributes is introduced here.)
Wisdom grows on us with every storm in which we stay grounded, every suffering we turn into a new leaf of compassionate understanding, every choice we make from a stance for something larger than our narrow self-interest.
We cannot plan for and “achieve” wisdom, only create conditions for enhancing its organic maturation. Can we do that in collective organisms, such as a DAO, and if yes, how? Those are the questions that animate this suggested research and development project.
Insight, knowledge, intelligence
Insight and wisdom
One of the signs of a wise person or community is their ability to pinpoint what factors are the most relevant to omni-beneficial consequences when facing a complex challenge or opportunity. Insight, our capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of what is, is a source condition of wisdom.
For instance, if a DAO had some insights about where to look in a multi-dimensional, convoluted context for levers of regenerative action, then it could zero in on and use them. But where would that collective insight, a precursor of collective wisdom, come from?
More often than not, good insights emerge from conversations with friends, colleagues, books, nature, online forums, etc. As our insights, these intimately personal phenomena, are relational in their inception, and so are they in their contribution to collective wisdom.
Just as contemplative meditation and other psycho-technologies can help develop better individual insight, social process technologies can help the development of collective insights and wisdom. Read more about that in the “Social process technologies for collective wisdom” section.
Knowledge and intelligence
Constructing a schema that features some kind of “Data ==> Knowledge ==> Intelligence ==> Wisdom” hierarchy, or a variation of it, may be an interesting intellectual exercise but not particularly useful to DAOs. However, because those terms do pop up in community conversations, we look at some of the relationships between them that may be particularly relevant to DAO empowerment.
We heard that “Knowledge comes from information, wisdom comes from experience. One feeds the mind, the other, the heart and soul.” It rings true, doesn’t it? Distinguishing them is good but beware of pitting them against each other. Finding the way through the complex task of making DAO space truly safe requires both accessing a higher vista and deeper truth that wisdom can provide, as well as, knowledge-based competence in modelling the multi-facet attack vectors. Similarly, a vibrant and self-updating knowledge ecosystem is needed, where we can look for the pertinent information from the higher vista of collective wisdom when facing the challenge of any complex decision.
We frequently hear that wisdom manifests in the right application of knowledge to making a decision. But how would we know what is the right application? For that, we need both to rely on the breadth of our knowledge about the forces at play in a given situation and to tap into the depth of our wisdom drawing on our life experience of understanding contexts, implications, and interdependencies.
How about intelligence? Are intelligence and wisdom the same? Not quite and it’s worth noting the difference. While intelligence, individual or collective, can be used in harmful ways, wisdom cannot. Intelligence, in itself, is devoid of goodness and can serve equally in bomb-making as in peace-making.
Sovereignty precedes wisdom
I used to share the same thoughts about the meaning of sovereignty as conveyed by Wikipedia until 5 years ago, when I came across how Daniel Schmachtenberger reframed “sovereignty” and how Jordan Hall put it in a similarly new context. That’s when I started realizing that only sovereign people and communities have a chance to be wise and act wisely.
Schmachtenberger defined the term with three vectors as the product of sentience, intelligence, and agency. In slightly more actionable terms, I call those vectors sense-making of what is happening, consequential meaning-making, and “greater good” choice-making.
Jordan Hall commented, “Sovereignty is the capacity to take responsibility. It is the ability to be present to the world and to respond to the world — rather than to be overwhelmed or merely reactive. Sovereignty is to be a conscious agent… Before you can begin to extend yourself into the complex dance of the larger universe, you need to get a handle on yourself. You need to achieve balance, to improve your sovereignty.”
So, we have to be sovereign to meaningfully extend ourselves into the collective, but we can’t grow and realize our full, sovereign response-ability on our own without the collective. How can we manage this two-horned dilemma? To try to dissolve it, let’s return to the three core capacities and the highest manifestation of each. Schmachtenberger describes them as follows:
Sentience… represents the sensory capacity of a complex adaptive system. The zenith of the development of sentience is the archetype of the bodhisattva (aware / all caring).
Intelligence… represents the information processing capacity of a complex adaptive system. The zenith of the development of intelligence is the archetype of the polymath (all-knowing).
Agency… represents the actuator capacity of a complex adaptive system. The zenith of the development of agency is the archetype of a world-creator (all-powerful).
My variation of those vectors of sovereignty is ever-more accurate sense-making of what is, followed by coherent and consequential meaning-making that leads to connective patterns, and choice-making that takes into account the long-term wellbeing of all stakeholders). They are interdependent and, taken together, precursors of our (individual and collective) wisdom.
Think about it: the sense-making organs of the community are its individual minds as receptors of the signals that people’s attention picks up. The orientation and quality of their filters influence the collected material that the community can make meaning of, which in turn, is influencing the subsequent choice-making and action. Similarly, when the culture of a DAO is infused with meaning-making based on more inclusive values, chances are that both its collected signals and collaborative decisions will be more valuable.
Those dynamics of interdependence suggest that collective entities can fare better when operating from enhanced collective wisdom. An enabling condition for the latter is recognizing our inter-being and inter-becoming. I am sovereign because you are, too. Through us, our collective wisdom can express itself.
Jordan Hall spoke of “a gathering of sovereigns who are entering into a relationship of higher-level sovereignty has a level of consciousness and a level of intelligence, and level of wisdom that is certainly much more than any of us as individuals or any existing institution has now.” DAOs that demonstrate collective wisdom are turning the existing institutions of the status quo into legacy institutions.
PART TWO: PRACTICAL FOUNDATION
Community wisdom in DAOs
The wisdom of Kernel
In the Signature Economies interactive essay, Kernel demonstrates how blockchain can help ownership move from control to care, from possession to reciprocity. Not only that, but also it illuminates how our individual sensing salient lines in the essay and enhancing its meaning by the very act of minting into our sign (as NFTs), we’re building an infrastructure on the blockchain that can enable a variety of further actions.
In that interactive essay, there’s also a kernel of socio-technical infrastructure enabling the emergence of collective wisdom. The “socio-“ is a reference to being supported not only by technology but also by a 3-way process architecture and a code of conduct that defines the purpose of the Kernel Services as “to serve the Kernel community and make its infrastructure available for any other community of care.” (italics added).
Given their emphasis on care (supported by a well-designed social, knowledge, and tech architecture), and given that wisdom grows with our affective qualities of compassion and benevolence, I’d say that Kernel is well-poised to become the first, Web3-enabled wisdom organization.
These are just baby steps but, one has to learn to walk before one can run. The quotes from the essay, as on-chain signs created by the “kernies” (as members of the community call themselves), is a form of acknowledgment that can turn the collection of signs into collective intelligence, reflecting where the community wants to go, when one is browsing the whole collection. Once a group of members gets inspired to curate the collection, it may become an expression of the community’s collective wisdom.
Kernel’s Signature Economies initiative is just one of the many expressions of its collective wisdom. “Kernel is an educational community that learns together how to create with care.” Depending on what we care for, whether it’s only the benefit of our members or something larger, can also be the expression of our collective ego or something larger than that. In the case of Kernel, it’s about the latter, as reflected in the generative statement “The purpose of Kernel Services is to serve the Kernel community and make its infrastructure available for any other community of care.” (italics added).
It’s no surprise that I could stumble upon a link in Kernel’s Writers Corner, pointing to a TED talk about the StoryCorps, which says, “Help us spark a global movement to record and preserve meaningful conversations with one another that results in an ever-growing digital archive of the collective wisdom of humanity.” It feels that the story of Kernel itself is an essential contribution to that collective wisdom.
The wisdom of Omega
Kernel is not alone on the edge of wisdom cultivation in Web3 organizations. The Omega Working Group of the Token Engineering Common is building a Consilience Library and collective curation processes. “Consilience” is a distinction that refers to the possibility of different avenues of evidence and principles from different disciplines linked together and creating a common ground of explanation in the search for deeper wisdom.
The flower of crypto-economics (see below), developed as a Venn diagram, reflects the multidisciplinary nature of token engineering. A collaboratively designed process of collective curation will be seeding and feeding the Library, like a knowledge garden, where books/articles related to two or more petals of the crypto-economic flower will be annotated with an anecdote about how the book/article helped the curator’s journey in Token Engineering. It will also contain a living log of the co-creative artistic processes nourishing it, and eventually, excerpts from community members’ exchanges on Discord.
All those features will help “explore the inter-subjective connections around knowledge (anecdotal annotations, lenses of the curator) over objective descriptions, e.g. abstract, categorization.” — Sebnem Rusitschka, moderator of the Omega Working Group.
Omega’s Consilience Library and the processes of curating it contribute to amplifying the wisdom in the Token Engineering Commons (and beyond) in three inspiring ways focused on the product, the process, and the people.
Product
The Consilience Library will be an inter/multi-disciplinary library on token engineering and the tributary disciplines contributing to it, which in the practices of its users may become transdisciplinary. Those kinds of practices would turn the Library into a learning and research environment favorably disposed toward potentially wisdom-amplifying “transcontextual mutual learning” (Nora Bateson).
Process
The plan for the Library was developed by a thorough and intentionally slow-moving Participatory Action Research approach that, in itself, can be valuable to similar initiatives in other DAOs, particularly, in its enhanced version, called Generative Action Research.
The first phase of the Library-building 3-phase curation process is already engaged by an invited small group of Seed Creators, who provide initial transmedia content (text, visuals, audio/visual), which will be followed, in the next phase, by community-wide curation supported by a reward system for high-quality contributions.
Finally, in the 3rd phase of the curation, the reputation points of the curators and visitors “will be used for “upvoting” selected curations of the library and guide open source publications in the wider space following advice and community feedback.” More importantly, “0mega WG plans to initiate phase 3 according to the community’s demand for further development in the library, with arts featuring prominently.”
The fact that the plans account for the co-evolution of the community with its Library opens tremendous possibilities for its use to deepen the community’s collective wisdom. See the sidebar on Collective Curation.
People
The Consilience Library’s potentially most consequential contribution to the community’s wisdom will be its impact on the members. The mind of community members, as curators or visitors, once expanded to the new broader perspectives on token engineering, will never shrink back to narrower views.
Not only that but also, curators will grow new skills and competencies in the process and visitors, the beneficiaries of their work will grow an appreciation of collective content curation, and maybe even get inspired to become contributors themselves.
Lastly, the conversations unfolding around the curated content may enhance the relationships among participants and spark new connections.
Wisdom and DAO governance
If wise decisions anticipate as much as possible their unintended consequences, then what are the pre-conditions for infusing our governance with them? For sure, we need to have a well-tended knowledge garden, rich with information and nuggets of insights about what is and has been happening, coming from smart summaries of our conversations.
We also need a learning culture where mistakes are not swept under the rug but turned into precious resources to mine for what we can learn from them. We will always make mistakes and have to deal with unforeseen consequences of our actions but learning from them helps not to repeat the same ones.
Both of those pre-conditions of bringing wisdom to DAO governance hinge on the third one — having generative and consequential conversations about things that really matter, including how to design the community’s knowledge garden or what roles will need to be defined, with what accountabilities, to make the community truly flourish.
The art of productive conversation can be cultivated by various social process technologies.
Social process technologies for collective wisdom
Going back to the origins of the word “technology,” we find the Greek technē that means craft-like knowledge when knowledge and principles are practically applied. Similarly, technology can be defined as applying knowledge to the practical aims of human life. Besides the better-known forms of technology (e.g.: mechanical, communication, energy, medical, transportation, etc.), there are also psycho-technologies that cognitive science describes as mental toolkits and social process technologies (SPT).
In a Twitter exchange with Angela Kreitenweis, the founder of Token Engineering Academy, Jeff Emmett of Commons Stack, and others, George Pór noted (in response to Angela’s tweet about “Global change needs global coordination”):
For enhancing collective wisdom, innertech (aka psychotech) practices and social process technologies are equally important, but in this research proposal, we focus on the latter. We’ll take into account the needs for the former inside the latter.
What follows is an introduction to three social process technologies that have been proven massively successful in pre-Web3 real life and could be instrumental in enhancing wisdom in DAOs. When considering them, please note that in all cases of tech-enabled STP, the needs and aspirations of the community, as well as the role of human facilitators should be considered first, and the web-based tools only second.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is a group/organizational process methodology that can also be applied to larger collective entities. It encourages a learning culture through collective inquiry and equips people with the skills to discover wisdom paths to future-shaping action, together. Developed by David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve University, Appreciative Inquiry is based on the 4-D Cycle of Discovery, Dream Phase, Design, and Destiny.
This process, like all the other SPTs, creates a shared experience and language of collaborative inquiry in the group, both of which are antecedents of collective wisdom.
Regarding the possibility of using it in an online environment, all it takes is skillful facilitation of the video conferencing breakout rooms and the use of Miro or another virtual whiteboard. When those conditions are given, Appreciative Inquiry can be used with small, large, and very large numbers of participants.
Resources
What is Appreciative Inquiry? A Brief History & Real Life Examples
Tips On Running Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Events Online
U Process
The U Process is a research-based change management methodology developed by Otto Scharmer at MIT, which can be used both in the curation phase of a DAO, and when it is seeking a new vision. It is a 5-stage STP that can help a DAO develop a deeper connection with its members, mobilize collective imagination, and prototype pathways to desired futures.
Adjacent to and in support of the 5 cycles, web-based tools can be and are used in each of them. E.g.: a series of video conferencing calls, where the participants engage with each other in practices related to the 5 cycles, collecting and analyzing group input on a shared virtual whiteboard, and making well-informed, decentralized deliberations using Loomio for DAOs.
Resources
Theory U – Learning from the future as it emerges (25-min video)
World Café
World Café is an organizational learning, design, and problem-solving process and an engaging, fun way to increase the participants’ collective intelligence and when properly facilitated, even their collective wisdom.
Drawing on seven integrated design principles, this methodology has a simple and flexible format for hosting large group dialogues, face-to-face and/or online. It can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs. Specifics of context, numbers, purpose, location, and other circumstances are factored into each events’ unique invitation, design, and question choice, but the following 4 steps comprise the basic model:
The World Café can be facilitated in a real-time, asynchronous, or hybrid mode.
Real-time World Café (in-person or virtual) is a 1.5-hr process
The process begins with the first of three or more twenty-minute rounds of conversation for small groups of four (five maximum) people seated around a table (or in a breakout room). At the end of the twenty minutes, each group member moves to a different new table or breakout room. Each round is prefaced with a question specially crafted for the specific context and desired purpose of the World Café. The same questions can be used for more than one round, or they may build upon each other to focus the conversation or to guide its direction.
The structure of the asynchronous, online World Café is similar, except that the rounds can be more spaced out and mediated by text or video messaging or digital materials left on a shared virtual whiteboard. For an example of a hybrid (onsite and online) World Café, look up the “Let’s Get Virtual and Physical” story of Fast Company here.
Resources
Café to Go — A Quick Reference Guide for Hosting World Café
The World Cafe Book: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter
From wisdom-driven DAOs to a wisdom society
Can DAOs go mainstream?
‘Can DAOs go mainstream?’ ask this question with joyous anticipation the DAOistas, and with some trepidation, people who have a vested interest in the legacy institutions.
“For now, DAOs are a crypto-only phenomenon. However, there is excitement about DAOs going mainstream one day. If coordination mechanisms develop in crypto that are better than our legacy coordination mechanism, it is possible that crypto-native and DAO-native coordination can scale to become a mainstream use case.” — DAOs: The New Coordination Frontier, a report curated by GitCoin and BANKLESS
Yes, and it all depends on what criteria we use for assessing what coordination mechanism is more appropriate in what context. According to Ken Owocki, one of the authors of the report:
This matrix is a good way to visualize the DAO design criteria. Its upper quadrants can also be perceived as criteria for better coordination mechanisms. However, it leaves the question open of who is the “Us” in those quadrants? A wise answer would go beyond just one DAO (that can be pitted against the interest of another DAO) and include in the “we” the whole of the DAOsphere and, in fact, the whole of society.
Of course, any mechanism/protocol aimed at coordination at increasing scale will be increasingly challenging to build. Yet, it is that kind of protocol we need to aim at. The main challenge won’t be technical because blockchain can help surmount that. It will come from the underrated role that the enhancement of their collective wisdom plays in most DAOs.
Therefore, the present R&D proposal is focused on a protocol for supporting that role inside DAOs and D2D collaboration. Wisdom-driven DAO initiatives will be best poised to develop and experiment with such a protocol; hence our interest in collaborating with Kernel and the Omega Working group of the Token Engineering Commons. Part of the project is to study and understand the elements of their cultural vibe that may prefigure the wisdom society. E.g. to what extent this key tenet is already present in their practice: The whole for the wellbeing of all parts, and all parts for the wellbeing of the whole?
What needs to be done for DAOs to go mainstream
“Taking things to scale doesn’t happen vertically through one-size-fits-all replication strategies,
although this is today’s dominant approach. Change happens as local experiments move horizontally
through networks of relationships, scaling across communities and nations.
People become inspired by one another’s discoveries and create their own initiatives;
they also support one another as pioneers.”
—Margaret Wheatley and Debbie Freeze
DAO-2-DAO collaboration
Figure 1Trees coordinating resources amongst each other through mycelial networks.
Image source: @BrianRoemmele
The rapidly growing trend of D2D collaboration and the formation of DAO networks and ecosystems corresponds to an evolutionary pull towards greater complexity and harmony. On the “ground,” D2D is expressed in various forms from token swap to the Proposal Inventer (symbolized by the image on the left).
The Proposal Inverter is a protocol based on research done by BlockScience and Curve Labs. The Proposal Inverter is itself a demonstration of effective multi-party collaboration that is funded by PrimeDAO and involves the Token Engineering Commons, Block Science, and others. For (slightly outdated) information on D2D categories and use cases, look up this table.
The pull towards more collaboration in this space is also expressed by the various gatherings that attract participants from many communities, such as the ReFI unconference of the Crypto Commons Association, blockchain-specific gatherings (e.g. ETH Denver), or regionally focused events, such as the Regens Unite.
We also anticipate that as cases of D2D negotiations and coordination multiply among the 1 million DAOs in existence, the need for cross-chain D2D will also grow. That will take the D2D developments to a new level, closer to DAOs becoming a strong system of influence in global economics and politics.
Conditions for the wisdom society
There’s an increasing number of DAOs offering various services to the whole DAO ecosystem.
source: https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/service-daos-landscape-challenges-and-solutions-b1af1a212ea
Unbeknownst to them, what they also generate is the innervation of the whole DAOsphere, which is the primary condition for it to become more con-intelligent and wiser. Down the road, that can also facilitate the emergence of a new phase in its collective consciousness: recognizing the unity of humanity as one interconnected, complex adaptive system and the DAOs’ role in enlivening it.
That innervation also contributes to the social innovations’ scaling-across the DAO landscape. Scaling across happens when tens of thousands of people in different organizations, countries, sectors, and movements start paying attention to similar possibilities for reinvention, connecting with a similar intention, and learning from each other’s experiences. The social field their shared attention engenders is like the tide: when it comes, it lifts all boats. (And the good news is that the innervation of our planet-wide “grey matter” is accelerating.)
The scaling-across will occur through conversations that “will be opportunities to practice a culture of wholeness and harmony by intentionally exploring how each part fits into the larger whole. Through the process of dialogos, perspectives and concepts are transformed as a result of deeper context, new relationships are forming, and new synthesis is emerging. This leading edge of dialogue is itself a metabolic cultural process of synthesis and emergence in which the greater story of Life’s unfolding reveals itself as it is explored and articulated.” — Benjamin Life
Resources
Building the Wisdom Age report by the Roote team
On the Verge of Collective Awakening by George Pór