Assembly required - RSA Comment

Wisdom rarely occurs solo; most of what we know is learned from others, and groups are usually better at thinking than individuals. Mobilising group intelligence has become a major new area of activity—such as crowdsourcing ideas in business, or for agencies like NASA; crowd design and democratic decision-making, for example in Taiwan; and crowd ob

When we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.

look for conversational threads that matter. A key one is to legitimize doubt and dissent. Some examples are to have people answer questions like these. If there are more than five people in the conversation, answer them in small groups of three: What doubts or reservations do you have? What have you said “yes” to that you no longer really mean? Wh