We offer a set of social innovations by which to facilitate "all the people" to work creatively together as "We the People" and achieve breakthrough progress on the most urgent impossible-seeming issues.
Monster Problems (i.e. BIG impossible-seeming, existential issues) are arising at all levels of society, especially at the national (e.g partisan gridlock) and global levels (e.g. climate crisis).
At the Center for Wise Democracy we offer a BREAKTHROUGH strategy for how "we" (a few of us) can facilitate "all the people" to face these Monsters creatively; reach wise unity through shifts and breakthroughs; and provide responsible leadership as "We the People" to governments, the economy and the culture. This amounts to a new System of governance (Wise Democracy) and economics ("ToBe-ism"). Monster Problems are primarily caused by the misfit of our Situation and our System. "Normal solutions" that our System offers (e.g. legislation, education, new technologies) can't solve them. However, there is a safe way to facilitate a System transformation in the short term that can positively affect all the Monster Problems at once. It's a simple matter of adding a new collective thinking process to what we already have, by which to achieve "collective intelligence" instead of our current "collective stupidity." We are calling this this deeper, holistic approach to solving the big impossible-seeming problems of society a "Holution" rather than a "solution." This strategy frees many "solutions" to become implemented and effective. (See "A Holution to the Human Predicament") The "Holution" Strategies ...
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The Social Innovations are ...
2 min video introduction to the social innovationsNew possibilities for you |
Illustration ... for the U.S. (3.5 min video)
Currently in the United States bitter political battling obliterates the possibility of collective intelligence. Most people feel excluded from democratic participation. And elected leaders often represent moneyed interests more than their constituents. How might we (just a few of us) facilitate all the people to come together as a wise and responsible "We the People"? ... where We reach shared conclusions and provide responsible leadership to elected leaders? Below is a short video describing how this might happen within a Reality TV Show. (3.5 min video):
Examples from Austria
This set of social innovations has been taken up in parts of Central Europe like communities and states in Austria and Germany. Especially the Vorarlberg government uses the Wisdom Council Process, See Seven short videos they sponsored IN ENGLISH. (https://www.buergerrat.net/english-version/) Below is one example, a short video illustrating how the state government of Voralberg in Austria used the Wisdom Council Process to help citizens address and solve a contentious issue: the influx of refugees.
To understand this new-paradigm approach most people find it valuable to experience it by taking a seminar. See the seminars on "Dynamic Facilitation."
Check out "Our Story" of how these social innovations and this whole-system strategy came about.
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