Collective Intelligence - Seminar level I - 19-21 January 2010

Given by TheTransitioner.org - Jean-François Noubel & Fernanda Ibarra

	Arrival of participants: 18 Jan after 5:30pm at Powell House Seminar: 19, 20, 21 Jan. -- 3 full days Departure: From Powell House on 22 Jan. at 9:30 am Contact: Skype: luvina Twitter: thetransitioner
	REGISTRATION FORM (click to register)

We are working in the unfolding of "participatory organization" for seminars. The events will happen because there is a collective will to bring it from intention to reality.

Please read below.

Table of content

What is collective intelligence?

Collective intelligence is a new research discipline (like sociology or anthropology). Collective intelligence helps us see how evolutionary forces are opening new paths for the next forms of social life, and what are the possibilities offered to us as individuals. How do individuals cooperate? What is the relationship between the individual and the collective? Is it necessarily conflicting? What is the link between being and doing? What are the technologies? What is that we call "right placement" ? What is a culture? A belief system? What are the invisible architectures? How do we get a sense of the whole?

What is the goal of the seminar and who is it for?

• Get an understanding of the different forms collective intelligence.
• Observe the new emerging forms of collective intelligence in humanity (called global collective intelligence).
• Build core language and integral practice to enter in this new paradigm.
• Explore how to build new paths to make global wisdom driven organizations possible.

This seminar is for those who want to understand, support and contribute to the next forms of social life that evolution is creating in humanity. It doesn't matter whether participants are leaders, coaches, politicians, social entrepreneurs, simple citizens, students, inventors, politicians or writers. What matters is their openmindedness, their commitment to explore new paradigms, their will to combine personal growth and culture, technology and body practice, being and doing.

Participants leave the seminar with keys and early practice that allow them to see possible paths, for themselves as well as for the organizations they lead or support.

What's in the seminar?

Here are some of the topics covered in the seminar:

• Learn the foundations of collective intelligence (CI) as a research and developpement discipline.
• Review the different forms of collective intelligence: original, swarm, pyramidal, global
• Understand core concepts, maps and language such as invisible architectures, the role of currencies, socialware, holopticism, object links...
  
• Understand the role of technology and socialware, be it for supporting today's organizations (pyramidal collective intelligence) or for building tomorrow's organizations (global collective intelligence) through socialware;
• Explore your right placement, reconciling being and doing through an exploration of integrity process allows the participant to define his/her right placement in the context of global collective intelligence
• Learn how to build wise and efficient organizations, built on human sovereignty, genius and creativity
  

• An integral practice. Each plane of the being is solicited in our practice: body, mind, spirit. Participants learn how to engage these planes in the social field, as this is crucial to overcome today's limitations in conventional organizations. We play with concepts and maps, we learn how to balance the physical and online spaces, we practice body exercises, we explore concrete study cases, we do workshops.
  

What the seminar is not

A 3 days seminar is too short to become an expert on collective intelligence. Just like sports or music, expertise arises through regular practice and training with others. Participants are encouraged to take this direction.

The seminar is not about personal development and group therapy, although we do go in our edges for building CI practice with others. It is a space for building next forms of organizations, which requires openmindedness, curiosity, a strong will to open to ourselves and others.

Admission criteria

Attendees are already on a path of personal growth. It is required that participants have already gone through enough personal development and solved relational issues that may stop a whole group. Openmindedness, curiosity, wonder, are necessary.

Attendees are open to meditation as well as the integral approach described earlier (body, mind, spirit). They understand that human experience is a subjective inner construct mirroring with an external objective phenomenology of the world, hence being and doing cannot be lived separately.

Attendees are open to the diversity of proposed exercises, be they physical, methodological, intellectual, spiritual or emotional. Attendees are in good physical condition and happy to move their body. They have also read the paper: "Collective intelligence: the invisible revolution".

Attendees also have good understanding and practice of the Internet and socialware. They are open to innovation and technology as being linked to consciousness. They are willing to learn the next technologies and tools that will sustain the next forms of collective intelligence.

Roadmap for participating in this seminar

STEP 1: Register

Fill in the registration form.

There you can decide what percentage of conventional money and what percentage of WEs you want to pay (more explanation is below).

Important advice: please don't wait that enough participants are registered to make your final decision. If everyone is waiting for everyone, then the event will never happen. Your individual action and accountability is what gives life to the collective. This is why numbers and status are shared and updated, so that everyone can make sovereign and responsible steps. These are practical dynamics of global collective intelligence.

STEP 2: Send an deposit via PayPal

A $260 USD deposit is necessary to secure the upfront expenses and book the place.

In case the event doesn't happen, $20 USD are kept to cover TheTransitioner transaction and admin expenses. You will be reimbursed $240 USD.

STEP 3: Check and join accountabilities

All accountabilities are now fulfilled!  Yet heralds that spread the voice to all corners are welcome. The more people we are the lower the expense. Move to step 4.

The seminar will become possible when every acountabilities below are fulfilled. You may decide to take one accountability, or support someone in charge. The wealth that you will earn can partially, if not fully, support your seminar fees.

Local organizer

Earned wealth	Person in charge
300 WEs	Eric Harris-Braun / Fernanda Ibarra

 

In charge of local organization and finding/offering the place, allocating rooms to participants, dealing with local people, etc.

• Finds a place that meets the seminar's space criteria

• Communicates with the space owners and facilitates relationship with TheTransitioner
• Is in charge of logistics/details during the event (room allocation, etc)
  
• Checks with every participant about their personal needs

• Updates database (names, contact information, personal needs, travel information)

Transportation coordinator

Earned wealth	Person in charge
300 WEs	Eric Harris-Braun

 

In charge of transportation details and coordination for participants.

• Get names, dates, means of transportation
  

• Gathers and shares information for transportation from airport and train station to the event

• Organizes car pulling

• Has a complete list of contact information in case of problem

Accountant

Earned wealth	Person in charge
400 WEs	Simon Hamilton

 

In charge of the financial/wealth aspects, collecting funds, fees, checking free currencies and conventional money.

• Checks upfront deposits
• Follows payments in conventional money and WEs
• Prepares invoices
• Tracks expenses
• Updates information in an online spreadsheet

Chef for vegetarian organic cuisine

Earned wealth	Person in charge
To be discussed case by case	Kristen Schiebel

 

In charge of vegetarian & organic cooking. Due to the amount of work, this person cannot attend the seminar.

• Does shopping
• Selects balanced menus for 3 meals a day
• Adapts to some participants special needs (allergies, special diet...)
• Coordinates support from participants (cleaning, setting the table, etc)

Heralds

Earned wealth	Person(s) in charge
To be discussed case by case	Jay Standish, Fernanda Ibarra

Spread the word in their networks. Invite people. Operate through synchronicity.

STEP 4: Follow the numbers and updates

Fees (in WEs and USD) for TheTransitioner

The tables below will update each time someone new registers. The more registered people, the less the fees (as they are shared between participants).

You may decide to pay in the following ways:

* 75% WEs and 25% USD
* 50% WEs and 50% USD
* 25% WEs and 75% USD
* 100% USD

Details are given in the 3 tables below:

The way these numbers are calculated is right here.

Participants names and contact information

Once you are fully registered you will be given the password to access to the participants's list and contact information.