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pervasive and planetary. Although money center. Participants offer time to themselves Agreement 6. Invite silence. Any participant
has taken digital form, its fundamental to journal their inner processes. What can ask for silence at any moment. Conver-
dynamic has remained the same since the has just been said is deeply listened to sation gets immediately suspended and
Victorian age. Its built-in architecture is and ‘breathed in.’ Participants move from everyone enters into silence for one minute.
based on artificial scarcity and centralization reaction (responding, taking the floor) to It offers the space to explore the current
and works like a seed from which wealth and creation (inviting creativity through emer- context at a deeper level, enter the experience
power concentration, ownership, usury, and gence). Interestingly, each time one speaks into a journal, explore emotions, needs, sense
secrecy unfold. The emerging planetary con- right after someone else, leaving no space for of emergence in the group, etc. Once the
sciousness, observable through the arising of breathing and creativity, the lower self is minute is over the person who asked for the
the free/open source economy, is about to taking control. silence is given space to explain why. It is
invent its own appropriate new monetary perfectly acceptable not to explain. Conver-
systems that will support its body structure. Agreement 2. Speak to the center. The center sation can then resume—often with a new
In the coming years, anyone will be able to is the physical center of a group in circle, or dimension.
create currencies. There will be millions of the experienced center in a global collective.
them. Money is about to follow the path of Speaking to the center rather than to a par- Time for Collective Bodhisattvas
distributed networks. ticular person allows the emergence of the How many organizations do we see in the
whole. Participants are asked not to engage world today, composed of well-intentioned
Social codes have emerged through genera- in sub-group conversations in the midst of and awakened persons that keep facing the
tions of social interactions. They have be- the collective process. same limitations at the collective level? The
come so natural and deeply embodied that sum of individual wisdom doesn't necessar-
we are, for the most part, unaware of them. Agreement 3. Listen to the center. Listen for ily generate collective wisdom.
They serve practical purposes for a given so- the will that is trying to manifest from the
ciety in a given culture at a given time. Just heart of the group. Give voice to it. This spe- Today, organizations can learn how to be-
like language and other invisible architec- cial mode of listening and voicing connects come sovereign architects that design what-
tures, the architecture of social codes can be us to others. Although speaking and listen- ever is empowering. Language, money, social
redesigned in order to attract wisdom. Let us ing to the center may look a little artificial at codes, software, law, food, time, cosmogo-
review a practical example by examining first it helps shift the whole dynamic of the nies—leave whatever is disempowering;
conversations in which any group may group into a transpersonal context. adopt whatever attracts wisdom in a given
engage in order to attract wisdom. context. Use the clothes appropriate for the
Agreement 4. Don't take the floor. Have it of- activities you are performing. As an empiri-
Wisdom Through Conversation fered. Because time is a scarce, shared re- cal discipline collective intelligence, wisdom
The way in which we engage in conversations source participants are invited to use it and consciousness helps us build maps, tools
obeys a complex set of behavioral rules moderately. Notice that in groups where peo- and technologies for a wisdom-driven social
learned during childhood. Ordinary conver- ple interrupt one another or respond without life. It offers objective and subjective paths for
sational architecture will always keep repro- leaving space, time is grabbed the same way pioneers to embody the evolutionary edge.
ducing the same outcomes and limitations. prey is in the wild—the strongest, the most CIWC is a self-generating discipline and a
In our example we propose six conversa- agile, the fastest, the craftiest gets the better self-realizing prophecy.
tional agreements. These agreements have share. Having the floor offered is like being
been applied in many circles, cultures, con- seated around a table with dishes being Individuals, no matter how highly developed,
texts and organizations including global kindly served and shared. It creates an will not be able to embrace and respond to
ones. Large organizations have adopted and entirely new group dynamic. the challenges humanity is currently facing. It
adapted them for their meetings and discov- seems now that evolution is seeking the
ered that many problems they were dealing Agreement 5. Speak from personal experience. emergence of global wisdom-driven
with in the past have simply disappeared. Sharing personal experience invites boldness, organizations. It is now time for collective
These agreements are not an innovation, they vulnerability, trust and compassionate rela- Bodhisattvas to emerge.
are found in some form or another in every tionships. When a person speaks theoreti-
wisdom tradition and contribute to the cally he/she is separated from the original
emergence of the whole. experience, and is placing a barrier between
him/her and the others. There is a need to
Jean-François Noubel dedicates his life
The Six Agreements check whether what one is about to say is a
to Collective Intelligence and Wisdom and
Consciousness (CIWC). He founded The
Agreement 1. Take a deep full breath before generality, or if it is hiding some personal
Transitioner, dedicated to R&D and building
speaking. This breath has many virtues. It story. Stories have the virtue of myths—they
the next global wisdom driven organizations.
helps participants let go of their selfish urge carry emotions, multilevel life experiences,
Prior to this, Jean-François was an entrepre-
neur. He was one of the founders of AOL
to keep a grasp on the conversation. They can cosmologies and vibrations—a much richer
France and other high-tech companies.
surrender to what is emerging from the universe for a group to share. www.TheTransitioner.org
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