Wisdom
There is a very urgent need for humanity to act wisely in the present for the long term.
Our experience is that wisdom emerges in the field of shared endeavour, when people widen their perspectives of attention, suspend personal opinions and judgments, listen to one another with true respect, and seek authentic understanding.
In this way wisdom is experiential, opening in a shared field of collaborative enquiry, free of any ownership, tending towards the common good. This capacity is latent, ready for awakening.
H3uni encourages people to engage authentically in the practice of group intelligence, to discover how best they can respond to and/or overcome a pressing and difficult common challenge.
Practices of dialogue and engaging the Wheel of Wisdom facilitate inclusive, collective understanding and decision making.
This diagram shows some interactions that are needed for collective wisdom to emerge:
Three elements for creative emergence
Individual
As we come to know ourselves fully as whole individual humans in relation to other beings, learning becomes purposeful, affectionate, hopeful and delightful. People become alert, sensing, and attuned to whatever is in play in our respective contexts.
Group
In relationships also, we discover our collective selves and our variety. This helps us to value the creative stimulus of differences in personality, perspectives, and experience. Naturally different personal roles help optimise collective outcomes. When in tune, the whole manifests qualities of intelligence and action that none of the parts can attain alone.
Situation
A particular situation may appear clear and discrete. However, it will always form some part of some greater context. Conversely, it will always entail many lesser complexities.
Reaching wise understanding together of a pressing circumstance and its contextual ramifications helps to create a systemically consistent, holistically viable and collectively committed response.
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