Community Co-Intelligence

On this site the word "community" usually refers to a community of place, a local geographical community -- an intentional community, a neighborhood, a town, a city, or a close-knit region. People living together can enhance the quality of their shared lives. Their diversity, used creatively, is a resource for their collective well-being.

Since "a whole is greater than the sum of its parts," every community has system characteristics and dynamics that have a life of their own, above and beyond the actions of the individual community members. A community is a living system that can be healthy or unhealthy, collectively intelligent or not, wise or foolish.

The pages below focus on co-intelligence-related materials useful in organizing communities or building local community co-intelligence capacity, sustainability, and resilience.

Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom - a short popular article describing a simple theory about why a community can be wiser than an individual

Community Resources from the Co-Intelligence Institute

Community Resources from Other Community-Supporting Organizations

Community Resources for Sustainability, Self-Reliance and Resilience