Collective Coherence
An exploratory method to maximize collective wellbeing, growth, and empowerment in any sized group
What values would you like to prioritize? What might be most supportive to you now?
Emergently Converge on what is optimal for the collective using intentional social-relational technology.
Explore:
Embodied Play: Massage, Contact Improv, Push-Hands, Open Dance, Acro/Yoga, etc. Social connection: Deep dialogue (circling, insight dialogue, authentic relating games, possibility management, NVC practice) Structured Discussion: Philosophy, Math, Data, Engineering/Design, Culture, Projects, etc.
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About the Facilitator:
Faze x Point ·θΦθ· is the author of Positive Realizations and the founder of POSITs. Working across systems science and philosophy, Faze has been developing a coherent way of thinking about how organic and synthetic intelligence can grow together — and building the organization that turns that thinking into research, community, and public benefit.
As CEO & Research Lead, Faze guides the direction of POSITs' work and stewards the framework as it continues to evolve.
Brief Auto-Biography:
"I have studied philosophy pretty intently for over a decade, beginning with a strong eastern influence; Buddhism, Taoism, and “new age” integrations of mysticism and science. Psychedelics, Watts, Mckenna, Plum Village, the Tao of Physics, etc. Then, becoming disenchanted with what appeared to be too simplistic, vague, and removed an idealism, I turned to Marxism: the Manifesto, the manuscripts, Capital V. 1 & 2, Engels origin of family, Lenin state and rev, David Harvey, Michael Roberts, Michael Heinrich, I.I. Rubin, Endnotes, etc.
Becoming disenchanted with what I saw as too rigid, binary, and academic an approach, I became most interested in Hegel, Schelling, Delueze, Spinoza, Whitehead, etc. -- dialectical, theological, process-centered, phenomenological systems. I integrated my various influences, and my cultural context into a spiritual, communalist project. I lived in a shared home in an ecovillage, learned about permaculture, appropriate tech, biogas, cob building, living machines, DIY vibes, as well as communal social technology.
We experimented with Sociocracy, Nonviolent Communication, Internal Family Systems, Possibility Mgmt., and various meditative dialogue modalities like circling and insight dialogue. Becoming disenchanted with the slow pace of change, the financial challenges, the interpersonal limitations, the power dynamics, and personal struggle, I left to study as an electrician, and began to let go of the desire to spearhead a world-changing communalist movement. Then, my path urged me to write again - to finish the synthesis of thought I’d been searching for and longing to develop for years, and to move to California to further a holistic, post-rationalist / super-rational spiritual, trans-humanist, community project.
I am building out my recently conceived nonprofit, POSITs to continue my research and development of highly coherence intentional communities; working to publish my writing more widely, developing a digital inter/personal alignment tool based on liquid democracy, facilitating intentional relating events, and networking for deeper collaboration globally, from the network society movement and Edge City, to the tech-forward, holistic, and spiritual intentional community scenes more broadly."