Six Stances
The Power of Collective Wisdom is the result of a collaboration
involving dozens of contributors and hundreds of people from our
network and beyond. Stories fill the book, telling of collective
wisdom’s emergence in diverse settings, across different cultures,
and in earlier times. It also sketches a larger worldview, one encompassing
the reverence for life associated with wisdom and the importance
of a collective perspective. Throughout the book, readers will be
guided toward a deeper understanding of the conditions that make
wisdom possible in groups and the characteristics that underlie many
successful group methodologies. Below are six stances we believe
help us prepare for collective wisdom’s emergence.
Definition: A stance is an attitude and bearing involving
commitment and conviction. These are choices of internal perspective
and external action that we make in the day-to-day and moment-by-moment
interactions we have with others. We believe a stance can be
learned and practiced, becoming a new way of being in relationship
with others, a new type of human association leading to unleashing
the spirit of cooperation and unlimited cocreation in groups.
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