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Dec 26 2011in About FoO, Academics & Research, Social Innovation by George PórTags: collective consciousness, collective intelligence, collective meaning-making, collective sensing, self-awareness, sense-making, thinking together
Wikipedia describes sense-making as follows: It is a collaborative process of creating shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals’ perspectives and varied interests… Sensemaking has seven properties [5] Identity and identification is central – who people think they are in their context shapes what they enact and how they interpret events (Pratt, 2000, Currie & Brown, 2003; [...]
Tags: collective consciousness, collective intelligence, collective meaning-making, collective sensing, self-awareness, sense-making, thinking together
Dec 15 2011in Process Documents, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: assembly agenda, assembly practices, collective intelligence, facilitating team, hand signal, people’s assembly
The purpose of the Quick Guide to People’s Assemblies is: “To facilitate and encourage the development of the different Popular Assemblies which have been created since the beginning of the 15th May Movement. This Quick Guide will be periodically revised and updated. On no account is it to be considered a closed model which cannot be adapted through consensus by [...]
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Dec 9 2011in Big Picture, Commons, Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
— an essay about evolutionary dynamics and the Occupy movement — Part One 1. How life assembled itself The origins of life Where were you and I, and what did we do, 3.5 billion years ago? Most likely, swimming in one of the Earth’s before-life oceans, close to the shoreline, as self-replicating but [...]
Tags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
Nov 20 2011in Assemblies, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: assembly practices, collective intelligence, General Assemblies, group communication, people’s assembly, shared attention, st paul's cathedral
The temperature was cold yet the air was hot last Friday, at the General Assembly of Occupy London at St.Paul’s. It was hot of our enthusiasm, as we were listening, with frequently “sparkling fingers,” to Mark from the “state, real democracy and people’s assemblies” sub-group of the GA’s National Politics Working Group. Mark presented a statement prepared by [...]
Tags: assembly practices, collective intelligence, General Assemblies, group communication, people’s assembly, shared attention, st paul's cathedral
Nov 19 2011in FoO Media, Social Innovation, Video by FoO-StewardTags: assembly practices, authentic relationship, collective intelligence, conversation, group communication, hand signal, mic check, respect, ripple effect, self-organization., thinking together
The notes below are from Occupy the Conversation, by Carla Kimball. Emphasis in bold and our comments in italics are added. • It’s an incredible example of self-organization. There are no identified leaders. Anyone who wants to speak is given a chance. This is confusing and messy for the media wanting sound-bites because it becomes so hard to [...]
Tags: assembly practices, authentic relationship, collective intelligence, conversation, group communication, hand signal, mic check, respect, ripple effect, self-organization., thinking together
Nov 18 2011in FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: collective intelligence, local and global, people’s assembly, place and space, sense-making, thinking together
The Commission for Group Dynamics in Assemblies of the Puerta del Sol Protest Camp (Madrid) defined collective thinking as follows: Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement. To our understanding, Collective Thinking is diametrically opposed to the kind of thinking propounded by the present system. This makes it difficult to assimilate and apply. Time is [...]
Tags: collective intelligence, local and global, people’s assembly, place and space, sense-making, thinking together
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