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What is Collective Wisdom?
This is the opening speech given by Dr. Albrecht Mahr at the Conference on Collective Wisdom, April 28-30, 2006, in Wurzburg, Germany. The full text of this speech can be found on the CWI website.The...
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What Touches our Hearts?
Over Easter we spent a few days on vacation, and during this time we came across these two – our friendly companions and patron saints for this conference. Many of you may recognize them: one is the...
View ArticlePointing to Paradox
So, what is collective wisdom - the subject of our conference? I would like to name just a few traits.1. With collective wisdom it’s about something apparently paradoxical.Summed up, collective wisdom...
View ArticleLeadership & Experts
2. Collective wisdom doesn’t recognize any particular experts – there are only experts. Collective wisdom can more easily arise where we lower or eliminate the often so restrictive barriers based on...
View ArticleThe Messiah is One of You...
This incident relates to elements which are central to the unfolding of collective wisdom: recognition and valuing of differences; and with this: consideration and respect as a basic posture towards...
View ArticleDigression to Stupidity
At this point, I would like to make a small digression on collective stupidity, blindness, oppression, and destructiveness. In light of the collective acts of cruelty continuing up the present day,...
View ArticleNon-Violence & Co-Intelligence
Here in our circles “those over there” might be, for example, religious fundamentalists, right-wing radicals and Neo-Nazis, terrorists, globalizers, and sometimes also “the American government,” etc.,...
View ArticleWorld Café
Now I would again like to come back to our next step together, the World Café. Peter Senge, who is perhaps known to some of you as an especially astute and far-sighted organization developer, and a...
View ArticlePersonal & Transpersonal
So, what is it in the end that really touches us, what is this? I believe it’s this: that we can find out what it is that we value and love in ourselves. That we can face our own limitations and faults...
View ArticleSimple Gestures
Can / should we create a better world? I don’t know. To me, this question seems more to confine the space, rather than widen it. But if we follow what really touches and nourishes our hearts, with the...
View ArticleOverview & Final Comments
The conference begins and ends with all its currents in the Community Council on the last day. In the Community Council, following old Native American tribal traditions, the entirety of our conference...
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