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How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy

 

Feb 4 2012in Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Working Groups by George PórTags: connective intelligence, , , , integration, , transformation,
How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy

R’evolution is shorthand for the jump time of evolution, when social relations that have been frozen for a long time start thawing and the obsolescence of the dominant social order becomes obvious to the multitudes. It’s a time of unfreeze, a fascinating moment, when what the future can become is up to us, to our [...]

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How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy

What is sense-making and its implications for movement sense-making

 

Dec 26 2011in About FoO, Academics & Research, Social Innovation by George PórTags: collective consciousness, , collective meaning-making, collective sensing, self-awareness, ,
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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; [...]

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The Imperative of Movement Sense-Making

 

Dec 22 2011in Identity & Strategy by Mark JagdevTags: awareness, reflection, self-reflection, ,
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In its raw energetic sense The Future of Occupy is a creative outcome that continues to unfold in the daily life of the global Occupy Movement, from moment to moment. For a couple of months now, in the aftermath of the original mid-October explosion of Occupy camps all over the world both Occupy-ers and onlooking [...]

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Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement

 

Nov 18 2011in FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: , , , , ,
Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement

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 [...]

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Collective Thinking is an essential part of our movement