This process has been amazing to witness and participate in. Fifteen thousand people contributed with the selection of 10 questions that represent a fractal of the worlds biggest challenges.  The Conversations café prepared this week an incedible field of possibilities for consciousness. It is a tasty potential for global collective intelligence (GCI) to expand as more people tap into the conversation and use the power of technology to transcend distance and really really scale.

So many ways of relating to one another across time and distance. Just as it happens with collective meditations I imagine the energy field that forms from the consciousness of many people around the planet, placing energy and intention to one common goal of answering to the ten questions selected for the conversation week. Beautiful! This was happening offline as well as in cyberspace. I chose to participate in 3 ways:

1. In the Global-mindshift  online conversation where the question chosen was: What kind of economic structures can best support a shift to sustainable living? (A healthy economy)?

2. Hosting a small conversation at my place. The question was: How can you, as Gandhi said, be the change that you want to see in the world? (Being the change)

In the conversation week site there is all the materials one would think of to make a call, promote, facilitate, harvest and have fun by hosting a conversaiton. This one was very easy to set up.  The tools are fantastic, they thought of everything, the emails, the posters, the wall cards, the materials, the conversation agreements, the process. They are worth looking at by anyone willing to facilitate a conversation.

3. I felt called to ask Gauthier Chapelle, director of biomimicry Europa for a conversation on the question around economic structures and sustainability.  See 'what does sustainability mean to you'.

One more possibility for action:Tweeter

I finally realize one opportunity escaped me. And that was on the potential for the use of tweeter. For those who don´t know this micromedia tool. Some people describe twitter as real-time expanding communal consciousness, microblogging, instant access and presence, propioperception, holoptical tool. In its form it is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? in 140 words. 

It is fantastic really. I have seen powerful events happening there like Beth Kanter raising money for an NGO. Jeremiah Jowyang connecting socialmedia people in one day by the combined use of a blog, tweeter, facebook and an incredible reputation.  I dream of being connected through tweeter with the Gaia community. It certainly brings closeness as you follow peoples small bytes of information.

The potential I missed is that I didn`t tweet the questions, only tweeted about what I was doing around the conversation week. Duh! ...well...Next time.

I invited the director of Biomimicry Europa to have a conversation around Economic structures and sustainability. Biomimicry is a wonderful new domain coming out of biology, where the
intent is to observe living systems in all its detail and inspire other
disciplines to use this knowledge in the design of new systems.  During
our conversation we talk about cooperation/competition, cero waste,
mutlispecies symbiotic relations, non human economies and more.  Hope you enjoy. We created it thinking about the GAIA comunity and other networks that weave us all :-)

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If you are interested in global collective intelligence here are some recommendations:


My first recommendation is develop a relationship with technology. Sound obvious eh? There are multiple levels to this. One is the actual machine, your machine. The other is the relation to the new. Tools that break the time/space bridge and expand the possibilities for collaboration. New Practices and processes that will enable you/us to develop further our own natural technology for sensing the other (the body/the magic in the middle) into a new edge.  Relationship to what is unique about this way of communication in cyberspace. Enter it fearless with fresh eyes, curiosity, expectation. Here are some examples of tools and practices.

TOOLS

 I highly recommend people to experience the power of tools like twitter. For those who don´t know this micromedia tool. Some people describe twitter as real-time expanding communal consciousness, microblogging, instant access and presence, propioperception, holoptical tool. In its form it is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? in 140 words. Some examples of its potential are Instant collaborations, dissemination of publication and materials, fostering professional development, collaboration during natural disasters, improve your social networks.

If you wish to try Follow me and I will follow you back. Possibilities are endless!" Read the collaboration stories.   or see a short film about it.

dream about being connected in twitter with GAIA people!!!

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The wikipedia is  one of the most amazing tools to create art objects through collective intelligence.  There are many ways of using wikis to expand the knowledge of a given group. Opening wikis for collaborative writting is a wonderful practice. From all the wikis I tried, Wetpaint is a very easy to use tool for this experiments since it has all that editors may need to keep their wiki cool and updated. Really worth trying. Almost no learning curve.

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PRACTICE

Tools for synchronous conversations  like skype and gyzmo may be used for group  meditation sessions, feeling the breath of the other across time/space has its own beauty. If you send me an email I will give you access to a virtual bell you can use for your practice or you can also use a normal bell. Be aware of distance. 

I have done meditations as long as 30mins but the less I do is 5mins. Its a wonderful practice for sharing with friends and working colleagues. I find it is great for exiting from one context and entering another.  After meditation you can then share your context from a space of silence.  Then talk, work, laugh or listen to music together. They are programs like Pretty May that allows to share music while being in skype. You can also do recordings from your sessions.

With practice you will learn to feel the others presence, emotions, attention.  Agreements normally used in face to face conversations can be applied online, like breathe, speak to the center and others that support our collective wisdom to emerge not limited to been in the same geographical space.

During the Global conversation week in my small conversation circle we decided to record a small podcast of our conversation where we talk about our own experience in being the change we want to see in the world. We know there is a big path to walk but  we also had enough discipline to be able to share some of our practices, experiences and thoughts in regards of personal development and collective intelligence.

We begin by sharing our individual practice and then part of our collective practices and potential.
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