The GSW-Lab 2020 will provide a space where diverse perspectives/experiences from artists, scientists, spiritual practitioners, and political activists will inspire participants to better understand and embody global social witnessing in their mind, heart, and body. Throughout the lab, we will co-create new ideas, strategies, tools, and energy to help us become mature global citizens in our times of disruption and transformation.
The CMMi is co-sponsoring the GSW-Lab2020 with the Institute for Global Integral Competence (IfGIC) and members have a special discounted participation fee. Early bird registrations close October 31, 2019.
To learn more about this inspiring lab/conference: https://www.globalsocialwitnessing.org/
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Special Webinar ~ Healing Communication: A Scholar-Practitioner Approach
Special Webinar
Healing Communication: A Scholar-Practitioner Approach
You are invited to Join Fielding Graduate University’s Provost and the international community of scholar-practitioners for an hour-long discussion on how communication can create positive change. It will be held on September 12.
CosmoKidz stand in Louisianna
CosmoKidz stand in Louisianna
In April, Chipps Taylor and Nicole Wells, a 2nd grade teacher, spent the day at the Capital building in Louisiana to showcase CosmoKidz as part of the Louisiana Children’s Trust Fund. The woman who made the last set of puppets also made the table cloth for us. Big smile!!!
Community happenings 2019-2020
Community happenings 2019-2020
Cancellation of July community meeting, Invitation to meet up, 3rd Annual Conference on Anticipation, A new program at Columbia, and Changes to LE program.
Inviting others into non-polarizing conversations
Inviting others into non-polarizing conversations
We have been having monthly CMM community calls this year on topics of social importance. The May Community Call focused on the question of how to invite others into non-polarizing conversations. Arthur Jensen, the host for May describes the highlights.
Cultural roots of our political problems
Cultural roots of our political problems
David Brooks recently published an opinion piece in which he identified five widespread cultural "lies" that are responsible for our contemporary political problems. His arguments against those lies and his alternative proposals align significantly with our vision for Cosmopolis.
Global social witnessing and shifting social fields Lukas Herrmann, CMMI Fellow 2018
Cultural roots of our political problems
David Brooks recently published an opinion piece in which he identified five widespread cultural "lies" that are responsible for our contemporary political problems. His arguments against those lies and his alternative proposals align significantly with our vision for Cosmopolis.
New bibliography completed
New bibliography completed
We’ve completed our bibliography of the more recent CMM orientated books and publications, with a specific focus on the period from 2000 to the present.
Facilitating conversations that matter and groove: CMM as a dialogic approach and method
Facilitating conversations that matter and groove: CMM as a dialogic approach and method
Rik Spann and Eerika Hedman-Phillips had a creative jam session at the Organizational Development Network Europe conference in May. Rik’s report provides an overview of the session and delightfully captures its vibrancy.
Making social worlds better: Grammars of action in traditions of practice
Making social worlds better: Grammars of action in traditions of practice
In this post, Sergej van Middendorp discusses the article, Making social worlds better: Grammars of action in traditions of practice, that he retrieved from the W. B. Pearce Archives. It was a controversial article and Sergej raises some provocative possibilities from it.
The Handbook of Communication Training
The Handbook of Communication Training
There are two significant chapters with a CMM orientation in this latest handbook: one by Bart Buechner and colleagues and another by Don Waisanen, last year's CMM Fellow.
Embodying metaphors in systems
Embodying Metaphors in Systems
Sergej van MIddendorp has recently published his book, using CMM and exploring the metaphor of jazz improvisation to help design systems that support the creation of health and wealth.
Moral Injury on the front lines of truth
Embodying Metaphors in Systems
Sergej van MIddendorp has recently published his book, using CMM and exploring the metaphor of jazz improvisation to help design systems that support the creation of health and wealth.