Tom Atlee

Tom Atlee (born 1947) is an American social, peace and environmental activist and author.

Personal life

Born in an intellectual, activist family of Quakers, Atlee experienced social change from an early on. In 1968, he dropped out of Antioch College to organize draft resistance to the Vietnam War.[1] In 1976, daughter Jenifer was born. Participating in the Great Peace March of 1986 – a "watershed experience"[2] to Atlee, he "spent the next 15 years exploring group and organizational phenomena".[3] Atlee lives in an intentional community in Eugene, Oregon.

Professional life

From 1989–1994 Atlee was editor of Thinkpeace, a national journal of peacemaking strategy and philosophy. In 1991 he went to Belize and to Czechoslovakia as a consultant on ecological social change and community-building. From 1991–1992 Atlee served on the boards of the Ecology Center (Berkeley). In 1996, he founded the Co-Intelligence Institute, a non-profit organization facilitating and researching self-organization, collective intelligence, participatory modes of governance and collaborative democracy. An article in Utne Reader identifies him as a radical centrist thinker.[4]

Co-Intelligence

Co-intelligence according to the FAQ on Atlee's institute website is "shared, integrated form of intelligence that we find in and around us when we're most vibrantly alive. It is also found in cultures that sustain themselves harmoniously with nature and neighbor. ... [it] shows up whenever we pool our personal intelligences to produce results that are more insightful and powerful than the sum of our individual perspectives."[5]

Publications

Books

References

  1. "Self-Portrait - Tom Atlee". Collectivewisdominitiative.org. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  2. "Tom Atlee Biography". Co-intelligence.org. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  3. "Self-Portrait - Tom Atlee". Collectivewisdominitiative.org. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  4. Utne, Leif (September–October 2004). "The Radical Middle". Utne Reader, issue no. 125, pp. 80–85. Includes brief interviews with 10 radical centrist thinkers and activists. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  5. http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIWhatsCI.html

External links

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