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Developing Collective Wisdom in Groups

Developing Collective Wisdom in Groups

Overview

 

Overview

 

Circle work

         the practice of people sitting in a circle listening deeply
and speaking from the heart

 

Dialogue

         people truly listening to people truly speaking

 

NonViolent Communication

         bringing awareness (and providing alternatives) to our habitually judgmental ways of thinking

 

Group Dynamics

         hidden psychological dynamics that can often prevent groups from functioning effectively

 

Working with Diversity

         the need to acknowledge and then integrate differences between group members

 

Working with Intuition

         developing the intuitive capacity of the group

 

Overview

What are the conditions that maximize creativity and learning in a group? What principles of group process help create those moments of magic when collective insight, clear decisions, and decisive action emerge within groups? What is needed to support groups becoming greater than the sum of their parts? In this section we present resources related to the various building blocks we are familiar with for developing the collective wisdom of groups.