“These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups.”

Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality.

They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.

For an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.

How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.

We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made.

Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other.

We seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life.

Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term.

Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.

Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably

We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.

Wisdom is not developable, as if it’s a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it’s just not the case.

The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols.

Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other, that we can indeed care for each other and the physical planet we share.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the ‘best family.’

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.