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I approach systems research with three passionate questions: What would life on Earth be like, i... more I approach systems research with three passionate questions:
What would life on Earth be like, if we knew how to harness the combined power of (1) systems knowledge, (2) our intuitive minds, and (3) our electronic communication and knowledge technologies?
What would it take to design a global-scale game design process that would mobilize the above-mentioned resources for speeding evolutionary learning,
and trigger our desire to devote significant time/energy to this endeavor?
What would happen if we decided to let our intuition play with the two questions above for a while, during the next five days?
Neither of these questions can be answered by any of us, but together we certainly have a better chance at finding some answers, or at least, some better questions. The easiest one to respond to is the last question concerning the next few days here. Let's start with that one.
The following couple of pages are just some grist for your mill. You can play even if you won't have time to read them while you are here.
In: Merry, P., Evolutionary Leadership, 2004
"Having learned ways to quiet their minds and strengthen their health and vitality, aspiring evol... more "Having learned ways to quiet their minds and strengthen their health and vitality, aspiring evolutionary leaders are ready to dance with the energies of the “We,” their teams, communities, and the network of all of their relationships. They are ready to ask and see into powerful questions. For instance:
How can a group of individual intelligences become truly collective intelligence? How can they escape into a more complex and capable collective intelligence (CI) without sacrificing their autonomy?"
In: Merry, P., Evolutionary Leadership , 2004
"Evolutionary leaders are expert learners, continually looking for ways to accelerate their learn... more "Evolutionary leaders are expert learners, continually looking for ways to accelerate their learning curve and the further development of their consciousness, compassion, and competence to absorb complexity.
The newest of those ways—"evolutionary leadership" communities of practice—is also one of the oldest. Communities of people who learn together from engaging in shared inquiries into issues of their shared practice is as old as humanity itself. It is just that now we are becoming conscious of it."
Hilary Bradbury, and Bjørn Uldall offer grounded utopian thinking to reimagine the future workpla... more Hilary Bradbury, and Bjørn Uldall offer grounded utopian thinking to reimagine the future workplace and with it, organizing in general. Connecting purpose and structures of interpersonal power allows for our human creativity to rise, and with it our capacity as organizational and business leaders to respond sustainably to social needs.
Proceedings of the 16th International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) Conversations "Systems and Science at Crossroads, Dec 2012
Report written in collaboration with Erik van Bekkum. …, Jan 1, 2004
The Future of Communications, 1989
Papers by George Pór
Discovering and strengthening the pattern that connects our highest individual and collective asp... more Discovering and strengthening the pattern that connects our highest individual and collective aspirations are pivotal to their realization. So is discovering how those patterns arrange themselves in functional, ecological alignment in the ecosystem of evolutionary initiatives.
ABSTRACT Publication Name: Knowledge Ecology Fair
Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but tha... more Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or regressing into an extinct society. The complex, intertwining local and global crises will outpace our 'response-ability' if we don't wise up individually and collectively. A human group or social system is wiser if it can think and act from a broader perspective and care for a larger whole with all of its parts. Without this expanded perspective and care our minds are caught in a maze of linear causalities, and thus we are incapable of making sense of the intricate patterns of the looming, extinction-level dangers and the corresponding evolutionary opportunities for transformation. How can we sense the essence of an historical possibility while still waiting for our wise actions to be realized? Try this: imagine our grandchildr...
I approach systems research with three passionate questions: What would life on Earth be like, i... more I approach systems research with three passionate questions:
What would life on Earth be like, if we knew how to harness the combined power of (1) systems knowledge, (2) our intuitive minds, and (3) our electronic communication and knowledge technologies?
What would it take to design a global-scale game design process that would mobilize the above-mentioned resources for speeding evolutionary learning,
and trigger our desire to devote significant time/energy to this endeavor?
What would happen if we decided to let our intuition play with the two questions above for a while, during the next five days?
Neither of these questions can be answered by any of us, but together we certainly have a better chance at finding some answers, or at least, some better questions. The easiest one to respond to is the last question concerning the next few days here. Let's start with that one.
The following couple of pages are just some grist for your mill. You can play even if you won't have time to read them while you are here.
In: Merry, P., Evolutionary Leadership, 2004
"Having learned ways to quiet their minds and strengthen their health and vitality, aspiring evol... more "Having learned ways to quiet their minds and strengthen their health and vitality, aspiring evolutionary leaders are ready to dance with the energies of the “We,” their teams, communities, and the network of all of their relationships. They are ready to ask and see into powerful questions. For instance:
How can a group of individual intelligences become truly collective intelligence? How can they escape into a more complex and capable collective intelligence (CI) without sacrificing their autonomy?"
In: Merry, P., Evolutionary Leadership , 2004
"Evolutionary leaders are expert learners, continually looking for ways to accelerate their learn... more "Evolutionary leaders are expert learners, continually looking for ways to accelerate their learning curve and the further development of their consciousness, compassion, and competence to absorb complexity.
The newest of those ways—"evolutionary leadership" communities of practice—is also one of the oldest. Communities of people who learn together from engaging in shared inquiries into issues of their shared practice is as old as humanity itself. It is just that now we are becoming conscious of it."
Hilary Bradbury, and Bjørn Uldall offer grounded utopian thinking to reimagine the future workpla... more Hilary Bradbury, and Bjørn Uldall offer grounded utopian thinking to reimagine the future workplace and with it, organizing in general. Connecting purpose and structures of interpersonal power allows for our human creativity to rise, and with it our capacity as organizational and business leaders to respond sustainably to social needs.
Proceedings of the 16th International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) Conversations "Systems and Science at Crossroads, Dec 2012
Report written in collaboration with Erik van Bekkum. …, Jan 1, 2004
The Future of Communications, 1989
Discovering and strengthening the pattern that connects our highest individual and collective asp... more Discovering and strengthening the pattern that connects our highest individual and collective aspirations are pivotal to their realization. So is discovering how those patterns arrange themselves in functional, ecological alignment in the ecosystem of evolutionary initiatives.
ABSTRACT Publication Name: Knowledge Ecology Fair
Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but tha... more Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or regressing into an extinct society. The complex, intertwining local and global crises will outpace our 'response-ability' if we don't wise up individually and collectively. A human group or social system is wiser if it can think and act from a broader perspective and care for a larger whole with all of its parts. Without this expanded perspective and care our minds are caught in a maze of linear causalities, and thus we are incapable of making sense of the intricate patterns of the looming, extinction-level dangers and the corresponding evolutionary opportunities for transformation. How can we sense the essence of an historical possibility while still waiting for our wise actions to be realized? Try this: imagine our grandchildr...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258333616
Retrieved from http://www. community- …, 2000
In this paper we define intelligence as the ability to interact successfully with one's worl... more In this paper we define intelligence as the ability to interact successfully with one's world, especially in the face of challenge or change. Human intelligence involves gathering, formulating, modifying, and applying effective knowledge -- often in the form of ideas, images, ...
World Unity Week conference, 2020
Training Evolutionary Activists and Leaders Is the mission of the Campus Co-Evolve virtual univer... more Training Evolutionary Activists and Leaders Is the mission of the Campus Co-Evolve virtual university. Action Research for Transformation is a research innovation developed by Hilary Bradbury. In this presentation, I talked about how we combine the two at Campus Co-Evolve.
Yhe Fuschl Conversations of the International Federation of Systems Research, 1980
I approach systems research with three passionate questions: What would life on Earth be like, i... more I approach systems research with three passionate questions:
What would life on Earth be like, if we knew how to harness
the combined power of (1) systems knowledge, (2) our intuitive minds, and (3) our electronic communication and knowledge technologies?
What would it take to design a global-scale game design process that would mobilize the above-mentioned resources for speeding evolutionary learning, and trigger our desire to devote significant time/energy to this endeavor?
What would happen if we decided to let our intuition play with
the two questions above for a while, during the next five days?
Neither of these questions can be answered by any of us,
but together we certainly have a better chance at finding some answers, or at least, some better questions. The easiest one to respond to is the last question concerning the next few days here. Let's start with that one.
The following couple of pages are just some grist for your mill.
You can play even if you won't have time to read them while you are here.
The conditions for global sustainability are way more complex than what the verb "design" can be ... more The conditions for global sustainability are way more complex than what the verb "design" can be applied to. Therefore, in my approach, I focus on the other key term used by team 3: "to design a series of related international events for curating the emergence of a global learning society."
Commons are sustained by “communities working together in self-governing ways in order to protect... more Commons are sustained by “communities working together in self-governing ways in order to protect resources from enclosure or to build new openly-shared resources.” (Hess, 2008) Successful self-governance in any large-scale commons needs shared knowledge and collective intelligence. Only then will it be capable to meet the combined challenges of complexity and the urgency of making wise decisions.
The larger and more complex the commons population, the more emphasized is the need for the commoners to build capacity for cultivating such faculties of their collective intelligence as collective sensing, meaning-making, planning, shared memory, and collaborative foresight.
In response to humankind’s global crises, there’s a multitude of commons-strengthening citizen initiatives at every scale, from local to global, and in every area of social life. They form an emergent ecosystem, in which they can interact, share information and grow collective capabilities.
KEYWORDS: bio-mimicry, collaborative foresight, collective intelligence, collective leadership, collective memory, collective sensing, knowledge ecosystem
If humankind is to pass its evolutionary test by meeting its global crises, (Nautilus Institute, ... more If humankind is to pass its evolutionary test by meeting its global crises, (Nautilus Institute, 2009) also referred to as the ―world problematique‖ (Meadows, 1972), it needs to grow competence in collective sensemaking, self-reflexivity, and meaning-sharing, which are essential conditions for awakening its collective intelligence and ultimately, its self-awareness and sentience.
The art and sciences of knowledge federation (KF) are pivotal enablers to accessing the lower levels of that ladder. Before we can step on rungs of collective sensemaking and self-reflexivity, KF has to help meeting the challenge of the fragmentation of knowledge relevant to the global crises. We can transcend that fragmentation only by the massive cooperation of all concerned. Given the scope of the crises, we are all concerned parties. In these conditions, for the scope of a knowledge federation project to be commensurate with the scope of the challenge, it has to transcend academia and include it in a social learning journey with mass participation.
In this paper, we propose to outline a framework for prototyping a federated, Self-evolving Educational Experience Design on Massive Scale (SEED-M). In section 2, we introduce the SEED-M distinction, and in sections 3 to 8 situate it in the context of social learning theory. Sections 9 and 10 are focused respectively, on issues of collective self-reflexivity and what it will take to prototype a SEED-M. The final; chapter is an outline of some issues for further research.
In the 1970's, "information management" took the place of "data processing" as a discipline and p... more In the 1970's, "information management" took the place of "data processing" as a discipline and practice for increasing productivity and organizational performance. The irresistible evolutionary waves of the new didn't destroy the old; they transcended and included it.
