Archive for Reviews and publications
A must-read new book Resounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change
A must-read new book, Resounding: introducing an alternative metaphor for organization change
Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Columbia University and board member of CMMi, reviews a must-read new book by Rik Spann (another board member) and Simon Martin. She says that the authors “ have given a gift to the world” in their innovative and thoughtful book that takes a fresh approach to the workings of organizations.
... Read MoreNew Working Papers series
New Working Papers series
We have started a new series of Working Papers, to highlight new developments in CMM and stimulate conversation. Our first paper, The Elephant in the Room: Righteous Minds and Cosmopolitan Communication, evaluates the moral psychology of Haidt using a communication perspective and taking into account insights from IPNB and developmental psychology.
... Read MoreNew publications
New publications
Four new CMM related publications have recently been released: on cosmopolitan communication, health, CosmoKidz, and a special Cosmokidz book for children.
... Read MoreReviews of A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication
Reviews of A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication
Arthur Jensen’s book, A Call to Cosmopolitan Communication, was published at the end of last year by CMMi Press. It has already started to receive glowing reviews: it’s a “must read”, there is no “better resource”, and “offers a powerful way to build a pathway forward.”
... Read MoreReview: Special volume of Human Systems: CMM: Extensions and applications
Review: Special volume of Human Systems: CMM: Extensions and applications
We invite you to explore this rich collection of ideas, examples, and innovative applications with an appreciation for the depth and breadth of CMM circa 2004 and for what is even more possible today.
... Read MoreNew publication on moral injury
New publication on moral injury
Bart Beuchner examines one of the best potential sources for learning about social systems and communication in conflict buried in “unheard” stories of returning military veterans—many of whom also suffer from the burden of moral conflicts encountered during service.
... Read MoreCommunication at the Crossroads: 2020 NCA Conference
Communication at the Crossroads: 2020 NCA Conference
This year's conference explored the intersection of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) theory with other disciplines and areas of scholarship and practice: including mental health, peacebuilding, and the enactment of socially responsible marketing by businesses. Each areas of exploration contained valuable lessons for rebuilding better post-COVID-19 social worlds.
... Read MoreMaking Better Social Worlds: Reviews
Making Better Social Worlds: Reviews "Probably the most important book of our era!" "Makes dense concepts and technical vocabulary accessible." "Clear, useful and written for anyone who wants to expand their horizons and develop practices for making better socials worlds." "I’d relish conversing about each chapter with a group of upper-division undergraduates, grad students, or community members." ... Read More
The CMMi Press: a new initiative
The CMMi Press: a new initiative We are really excited to announce the formation of the CMMi Press, the publishing arm of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution. ... Read More
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. ... Read More
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. ... Read More
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. ... Read More
Moral Injury on the front lines of truth
Moral Injury on the front lines of truth This is an exciting and innovative chapter written by three of the CMMI's board members, Bart Buechner, Sergej van Middendorp and Rik Spann. The chapter interweaves CMM and the metaphor of jazz improvisation in the context of Schutz’s lifeworld phenomenology. ... Read More
Coordinated management of meaning (CMM): A research manual.
A new focus book on CMM research methods Three post-graduate students from Columbia University, Filippa Naka, Adrian Jofre Bosch, Shengjie Ma, review the second book in the CMM Focus book series: Natasha A. Rascon’s and Stephen W. Littlejohn’s Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM): A Research Manual. ... Read More
Sources of inspiration: The On Being project
Sources of inspiration We are part of a broad community of practitioners, researchers, scholars and students concerned with exploring what it means to be human and how we can make better social worlds. Here we offer an introduction to another member of this community and inspirational source for us all: The On Being project ... Read More
New models and metaphors for communication
New models and metaphors for communication Sergej van Middendorp discusses an unpublished paper on new models and metaphors of communication from the Barnett Pearce Collection at Fitchburg State University's digital library. ... Read More
The Manager’s Dilemma, a new book by Jesse Sostrin
The Manager’s Dilemma: Balancing the Inverse Equation of Increasing Demands + Shrinking Resources Offers solutions to anyone feeling undermined by the impossible expectation of producing more and better work with less time and fewer resources ... Read More