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Quick Guide on Group Dynamics in People’s Assemblies
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 [...]
Tags: assembly agenda, assembly practices, collective intelligence, facilitating team, hand signal, people’s assembly
Occupy as a new societal model & ways to improve it
Nov 24 2011in Big Picture, Economics, FoO Media, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: appreciative inquiry, economics, empowerment works, future search, general assembly, gift circles, gift economy, heart circle network, open space technology, people’s assembly, restorative circles, theory u, thinking together, world cafe
General Assembly (photo by Caroline Schiff) One of the compelling attractions of Occupy is that it is modelling a possible socio-economic-political paradigm for how society can run. It is a model the whole world is beginning to watch. For those who come and participate in it, its a learning experience, a training in this new [...]
Tags: appreciative inquiry, economics, empowerment works, future search, general assembly, gift circles, gift economy, heart circle network, open space technology, people’s assembly, restorative circles, theory u, thinking together, world cafe
On identity and strategy at Occupy London
Nov 23 2011in FoO Media, Identity & Strategy by FoO-StewardTags: Occupy London, people’s assembly, vision
The article below by Flaminia Giambalvo was published under the title “On Identity and Strategy at St. Pauls” in The Occupied Times, on November 9th 2011. She wrote: “What the London occupations have achieved in a few weeks is baffling. Yet in order to take this forward we need to start questioning our nature and our [...]
Tags: Occupy London, people’s assembly, vision
Beyond Protest: the way of People’s Assemblies
Nov 22 2011in Assemblies, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: community technology architect, people’s assembly, place and space, representative democracy, virtual environment
In the conversation about a suggestion to amend General Assembly’s Initial Statement, in the 18 November GA of #OccupyLSX, there was a consensus that parliamentary democracy is not working, and that it was time for a new model of democracy. The amendment said: “This alternative must be built by people’s assemblies across the country… It [...]
Tags: community technology architect, people’s assembly, place and space, representative democracy, virtual environment
Real democracy is rising on the horizon at Occupy London
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
Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement
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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