June 27th, 2022
- prepping for Superorganism Salon
- what am I hoping to get from this event?
- progress towards Cointelligence R&D Lab Proposal via increased sense of what I'm working on and why it matters?
- get some more case studies & examples to use in further writing / blog posts
- get more clarity on open questions
- learning about how I might better run another one (eg at Catalyzbon, or in Berlin!)
- what do I want others to get?
- a sense that more is possible
- more than what they've experienced so far
- more of what they've experienced so far
- Join Malcolm Ocean and roote.co for an exploratory evening
- into the question of how we can go about forming
- larger-than-individual wholes of
- perception
- sensemaking
- agency
- on timescales from
- single tasks or conversations
- life-long relationships
- fragments for presentation
- eye/parallax demo, depth perception
- shift from "opinion" to "perspective"
- #blogpost idea sorta / #vacuum - a better case study / parable version of the cylinder parallax thing, that's not just about a perception but about some proposed course of action
- (I mean I guess that could be "let's roll the thing")
- (Beer Game feels vaguely relevant here, tho it's on a diff level maybe)
- relevance of coherence therapy framework
- everything makes sense from its own perspective
- collective attention
- pointing (vs animals)
- shared trains of thought
- contrasted with
- fragmented/scattered collective attention
- one person hoarding the train of thought
- common examples of group flow in action
- sports team - flow but goal is external
- roadtrip example
- needs - bathroom
- if you don't trust people to speak up for needs, have to 2nd-guess
- circling
- but it's meditative
- only sensemaking, no perceiving & acting, in a sense
- get people to name some maybe?
- (maybe give 1min for everyone to think about it, then invite a few shares)
- the target:
- description from How we get there
- > a group of people that had profound non-naive trust of their collective ability to relate to each other in ways that support the other individuals and the whole, and that came not from a sense of collective identification with the particular group (as opposed to the rest of humanity) but out of a shared capacity to respect the coherence of each thought or behavior or control system that arises on any scale of all sensemaking systems (parts, people, groups). I’m talking about a collaborative superorganism in which the following elements are experienced not just some of the time or most of the time, but consistently:
- it’s safe, workable, and usually enjoyable to look at anything together
- people’s concerns are able to be resolved in good time, or they’re able to reach a shared understanding of why not that feels acceptable to everyone in the meantime
- everyone is able to give & receive feedback effectively, without using blame-based explanations (ie essentially zero defensiveness, victimhood, or shame)
- nobody is attempting to control their own or each others’ behavior
- everything is seen as part of a learning experience
- nobody feels rushed or pushed through their own learning process
- the group as a whole is wise about anything that any member is wise about
- authority can flow naturally without guru dynamics
- they have a very high c factor (a measurement of cointelligence independent of individual intelligence)
- …and many other facets of collective sanity that also aren’t structurally separable but can be talked about distinctly
- inclined to do a modified convo café / dharma talking
- 3min meditation at the start
- have people record the sessions, I think