Tom Atlee - The Wisdom of the Whole

Beginning with his first experience of collective mind on the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament in 1986, the passionate activist Tom Atlee tells one astonishing story after another about the power of collectives. In this engaging audio he discusses how co-intelligence can revitalize democracy through “wisdom councils”—groups of ordinary citizens who access a higher wisdom to determine what's best for the whole.

BIO

Tom Atlee, founder of the nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute, has written and spoken for twenty years on politics, democracy, and cultural transformation. Recently, his work has focused on developing our capacity to function as a wise democracy, so we can turn our social and environmental challenges into positive developments for our society. His resource-packed website, co-intelligence.org, is used by thousands of people every month.

Tom has written extensively on leading-edge issues in politics, philosophy, and social transformation. His political vision, based on processes that tap our collective intelligence, is presented in his 2003 book: The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All. His articles on social issues and co-intelligence have appeared in National Civic Review, Communities, Co-Op America Quarterly, IONS Noetic Sciences Review, In Context, Yes!, Permaculture Activist, Earthlight, Thinkpeace, and numerous other journals.

Raised in a Quaker activist family, Tom has been exploring social issues and personal and social transformation since an early age. In 1991, he was invited to Belize and to Czechoslovakia (with his life partner, Karen Mercer) to consult on green social change and community-building. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, with Karen and several of their friends.