The Community as a Whole is More than the Sum of its Parts – Work in Progress

August 30th, 2009 | Posted by Mushin in collective intelligence | community | Community & Collaboration | community building | constellations | cooperation | we-space - (7 Comments)

I’ve been working on this mind map this whole weekend and will be working on it some more. You can, if you like also work on it (best to enlarge it before you do that – and even if you want to see it in more detail)… or comment. (More work from 1 & 2. … Read more →

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Challenges of Community and Collaboration

March 9th, 2009 | Posted by Mushin in challenge | collaboration | community | Community & Collaboration | emergence | leadership - (0 Comments)

Being an aficionado for collaboration, so much so that I’ve created a job for me being a Collaboration Ecologist, recently more often than not I’ve come to inquire into the question, “If, as seems to be the case, many if not most people and organisations in the world seek collaboration and want to become communities … Read more →

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Self-Empowered Spirituality

August 12th, 2008 | Posted by Mushin in co-creation | collaboration | cooperative spirituality | facilitation | guruism | self-empowerment | seminar | servant leadership | spiritual community | vertical spirituality | we-full living - (4 Comments)

(This is the non illustrated version; after I get proper permission, I will have some beautiful pictures alongside this blog) I have been writing about what I consider true 21st Century Spirituality before (on my zaadz blog), about Open Source Spirituality (here & on zaadz), and now I’ve had the opportunity to test some of … Read more →

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Collaboration versus Institutions

July 30th, 2008 | Posted by Mushin in Clay Shirky | collaboration | collaboration costs | community building | social networks | video - (0 Comments)

In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

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Me to the Power of Us

April 18th, 2008 | Posted by Mushin in alignment | altruism | between-us | collaboration | collective intelligence | emergence | emerging archetype | evolution | Inclusionality | integral culture | mutual apprenticeship | mutuality | open society | P2P | pluralistic spirituality | relating | relational spirituality | relationship | self-organization | spirituality | values | vision | we-culture - (0 Comments)

A beautiful video illustration a visionary statement by Michel Bauwens which expresses most beautifully the Path I find myself to be on. “Anyway, this is what the changes are about, augmenting the individual through relationality, with the object of creating common value ‘collectively’, through self-aggregation. The whole push of the p2p revolution is to create … Read more →

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The coming age of cooperation

February 15th, 2008 | Posted by Mushin in altruism | collaboration | cooperation | prisoners dilemma - (1 Comments)

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

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Community Development Professional’s Principles

January 2nd, 2008 | Posted by Mushin in alignment | autopoiesis | collaboration | collective intelligence | emergence | experiment | fair share | leadership | mutual apprenticeship | principles | purpose | self-organization | synergy | win-win - (0 Comments)

What is possible cannot be determined by opinions, but only by attempt. And we were determined to make the attempt. – Dee Hock 1. Everybody is a leader ¨ Leading by being Community Development professionals (CDPs) are the change they wish to see. CDPs provide relational and situational information and knowledge to members, who are … Read more →

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Integral Community Building & Collaboration Ecology – 04 Collaborating for Community

December 18th, 2007 | Posted by Mushin in collaboration | community of practise | presence | trust - (4 Comments)

Collaboration that creates and applies knowledge, understanding and eventually wisdom to create real community is very sophisticated behavior. Apart from subject matter expertise, skills, competence and experience (which are basic to competitive endeavours as well) the communities of practice that Community Development Professionals build require agreement and shared values, trust among individuals and organizations, and … Read more →

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Sustainability Market Collaboration

November 13th, 2007 | Posted by Mushin in EASE - (0 Comments)

Just in case you wondered where I’m going to be in the next few days… I’m at the Energy EASE07 UnConference on Sustainability Market Collaboration in San Francisco November 16-18 at Fort Mason  Berkeley, CA.   Energy EASE07 opens in San Francisco on Friday with sustainability leaders  and participants collaborating to develop market growth, exchange and … Read more →

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