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Tom Atlee is the founder of the nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute, author of The Tao of Democracy and Reflections on Evolutionary Activism, and creator of the Wise Democracy Pattern Language. He has published many articles in alternative journals, collaborated on numerous projects and books, been on several nonprofit boards, and consulted on social change projects internationally. Born in 1947, Atlee was raised as a Quaker peace and social justice activist. On the 1986 Great Peace March, a nine-month cross-country US trek undertaken by four hundred ordinary people, he experienced bottom-up self-organization and palpable collective intelligence for the first time. This watershed experience changed his life into a search for how to evoke these collective capacities in activist groups, communities, and whole societies. Starting in the mid-1990s, his activist instincts led him to apply his discoveries to the creation of wiser forms of democracy and governance. In 2005 he began a study of evolutionary dynamics that could be used to transform social systems and is currently exploring new forms of collective sense-making and grassroots participatory democracy and economics.Tom lives simply in a nine-bedroom, consensus-based co-op house in Eugene, Oregon, with a changing population of friends, dogs, cats, chickens, plants, books, and chores. While he spends most of his time glued to his computer, talking passionately with colleagues, or hanging out with his beloved partner, he also enjoys reading, walking, watching movies, decorating leaves, and creating poetic collages. His daughter and granddaughter live in New England.He can be reached at cii@igc.org.  His ideas can be explored on co-intelligence.org, tomatleeblog.com, and wd-pl.com.An expert in the field of dialogue and deliberation, Tom has thought long and hard about the impact collective intelligence could have on democracy. His conversation with Jennifer covers several subjects, including the influence of his upbringing in the Quaker community, experiments in democratic deliberation, and how we might begin to listen to each other again during this time of extreme polarization. Production by Jennifer Morone, Leon Erichsen and Matt PrewittIntro/Outro music by MagnusMoone “Wind in the Willows”is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

ResourcesThe goal of the Co-Intelligence Institute is the conscious evolution of culture in harmony with nature and with the highest human potentials.Tom’s newly released Wise Democracy Pattern Deck is for anyone seeking to better address the complexity of our time, this tool provides insightful principles and practical methodologies.TWise Democracy Pattern Language: Tom and I reference these patterns in this episode. Each link has a whole world of resources and information:Feeling heardUsing Diversity and disturbance CreativelyPowerful QuestionsUniversal ParticipationTranspartisan InquiryWhole System in the ConversationIdeal Wise Democracy Model3D Wise Democracy Model: One way to explore democracy is through the lenses of power, participation, and the wisdom of its outcomes. These dimensions of democracy are always present to some degree, and each can be improved. Here are some documents where you can explore this model further:The 3D WiseDemocracy ModelThe Wise Democracy Pattern Language in the Three Dimensions of Wise DemocracyPower: Wise Democracy redefines power and transforms the “power-over” mentality to “power with” “power-from-within” and “power-from-among.” This is described in greater detail in the Nature of Power article on the Co-Intelligence website.Articles: We talk about Tom’s articles, “Inclusive Networks are Shaping Our Lives Right Now. Are They Governance?” and “Sense-Making-Together and Apart”. You can find these articles and more information on Tom’s Blog.Other Pattern LanguagesA Pattern Language is a method of describing good design practices or patterns of useful organization within a field of expertise. The wise democracy pattern language was inspired by other pattern languages.The Group Works Deck: A deck of 100 full-color cards that names what skilled facilitators and other participants do to make things work. The content is beyond tips and techniques. The pattern cuts across existing methodologies with a designer's eye to capture the patterns that repeat.A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction: The original pattern language was developed by Christopher Alexander. Here is the book: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein.Tools and Resources for a Wiser DemocracyIn this episode, we discuss Tom’s extensive work with Wise Democracy. Below is a list of organizations, methodologies, books and movements that are but a small collection of the paths to creating Wise Democracy:Nonviolent Communication (NVC)NVC is based on the principles of nonviolence-- the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart. NVC begins by assuming that we are all compassionate by nature and that violent strategies—whether verbal or physical—are learned behaviors taught and supported by the prevailing culture. NVC also assumes that we all share the same, basic human needs, and that all actions are a strategy to meet one or more of these needs. Here's a list of Universal Human Needs (and feelings) created by Mediate Your Life.Dynamic facilitation:Created by consultant Jim Rough, Dynamic Facilitation is a facilitation style that follows the energy of a group without constraining that energy to agendas or exercises. Using this style, someone can facilitate a highly co-creative process Jim calls "choice-creating." This article "Dynamic Facilitation/Choice-Creating" by Tom Atlee explains how the methodology works and provides links to many articles about it as well as A Dynamic Facilitation ManualDeliberative Councils and Citizen’s Assemblies:Here is a collection of resources about the ways that people are applying elements of wise democracy in the political systemCitizens’ Initiative Review Councils in OregonRebooting Democracy: A Citizen’s Guide to Reinventing Politics by Manuel ArriagaParticipedia is A global community sharing knowledge and stories about public participation and democratic innovationsHere is a demo of a wisdom council “Swisscom Wisdom Council Experience”Perception Gap:This site has a quiz (and excellent data)on how our perceptions of other political parties can be distorted. Take the quiz.Essential Partners (previously the Public Conversations Project)Leaders in creating the dynamics and structures for facilitating difficult conversations across differences.Here is Tom's article about the origins of the Public Conversations Project and how they developed models in the 1980s to have high stakes dialogues between pro-choice and pro-life leaders: "Beyond the Abortion Debate - Common Ground"Essential Partners has an excellent guide for red-blue political dialogue called "Reaching across the divide." The guide offers a step-by-step approach to inviting another person—someone whose perspectives differ from your own—into a conversation. The guide focuses on developing a better understanding of each other’s perspectives, hopes, fears and values; inviting curiosity; avoiding the pattern of attack and defend; and moving beyond stereotypes and assumptions with powerful questions. (Here's the PDF)“Fostering Dialogue Across Divides (PDF)" has long been the go to text for how to facilitate dialogue across entrenched differences. It is one of my favorite resources and has deeply influenced my work.”Between "Them" and "Us" - The Power and Practice of Reflective, Structured Dialogue” is a video by Bob Stains is A keynote speech by Mr. Bob Stains from Essential Partners at the Finnish Institute of Deliberative Democracy Research and Development about how to support constructive conversations in situations where values, ethnicity or religion create high tensions.The World Café:A powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today’s world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique – it’s a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership.The Art of HostingAn international community of practitioners and trainers that use and teach a highly effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them.Polarity Thinking:Polarity Thinking is a powerful tool for learning how to manage interdependent polarities that cannot be solved.The Institute for Polarities of Democracy applies Polarity thinking to democracy.Here is a TED Talk about polarity thinkingHere is a video that I made to explain leadership using polarity management as a way to navigate between old and new ways of doing things.

Aired Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 5:00 PM ESTWise Democracy, the Great Upwising and A New “Common Sense”A Conversation With Evolutionary Activist Tom Atlee“A revolutionary uprising to overthrow the system? Nah, that’s strictly old paradigm. What we really need is an evolutionary upwising to OVERGROW the system.” — Swami BeyondanandaWhile doing research for Spontaneous Evolution ten years ago, I came across a book that forever changed how I viewed the collective wisdom of we the people. The book was called The Tao of Democracy and it offered example after example of how the collective voice and view of ordinary citizens could provide more helpful and functional solutions than the best-informed experts.The author of that book, Tom Atlee, has been an “evolutionary activist” for more than 30 years, focusing on the power of collaboration and collective intelligence. In 1996, he founded the Co-Intelligence Institute to aid in the “conscious evolution” of our society, and our species.His work on “wise democracy” features his coined category of existing forms of “citizen deliberative councils” which he promotes in his books The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All (2003) and Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics (2012).One of the objections those used to being in power have had against true democracy is their belief that ordinary people don’t have the capacity to consider the bigger picture, and cannot be trusted to govern themselves. The work that Tom Atlee has done over these past many years proves just the opposite — that given the tools for engagement, and the proper guidance for having a respectful conversation for co-creativity, the “wisdom of crowds” is wiser than the wisdom of elites.If you recognize that it’s time to finally bring forth the missing element in government of, by and for the people — the PEOPLE — please join us for this enlightening and encouraging conversation. You’ll hear stories of how “citizen deliberation councils” have shown how common folks can bring forth uncommon wisdom, you’ll discover new rules of transpartisan engagement that cultivate respect, listening and breakthrough solutions, and discover “wise democracy pattern language” to help us speak and listen more effectively. Says Tom, ” All of this can be viewed as evolution becoming conscious of itself in the transformation of social dynamics that will cause humanity to either go extinct or become a radically better and regenerative form of itself.”If you prefer evolution to extinction, this conversation will shine the light on the path ahead.How you can support Wiki PolitikiJoin the “upwising” — join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/ Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Co-Intelligence Institute Founder Tom Atlee about his new book, Participatory Sustainability, and the need for engaging everyone in our community and world as we look for solutions to our ecological crisis. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Tom Atlee is a social theorist, visionary, and writer. He is the founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and the author of many books, including his newest, Participatory Sustainability. Related Links: Participatory Sustainability by Tom Atlee https://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Sustainability-emerging-civilizational-engagement/dp/1542856396 Co-Intelligence Institute https://www.co-intelligence.org/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ Pachamama Alliance https://www.pachamama.org/ "I Grew Up In the Westboro Baptist Church: Here's Why I Left" Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_phelps_roper_i_grew_up_in_the_westboro_baptist_church_here_s_why_i_left Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

Voices from 2020, Vol. 3, Published October 7, 2006. In this the third podcast in our “Voices from 2020” series, our intrepid time travelers FireHawk and Bill Veltrop once again visit an ideal year 2020, this time to interview Tom Atlee, who for many years has been one of this planet’s most articulate champions of our potential to turn our social and environmental challenges into positive developments for our society. Tom is a founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute. His 2003 book, The Tao of Democracy: using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All, introduced us to what it takes to tap into our capacity for wise democracy. In this interview Tom reveals how, in 2020, we have collectively begun to awaken, not only to face up to our various global challenges, but also to learn how to use the energy of global crises to fuel our conscious evolution as a people. His stories reinforced the importance of societal feedback loops as advanced by Gil Friend and Jeff Saperstein in our second Voices from 2020 podcast. He also highlighted the role played by some pioneering corporations in actively supporting our moving toward social and environmental wholeness.