Thrivable Society
Salon Series Archive
Thrivability Salon
Thrivability: Get ahead on key, emerging Thrivable Concepts
This Thrivability Salon offers you a refreshing play shop focused on how we’re defining more thrivable actions and behavior for insights about what is possible next and how to navigate the uncertainty ahead.
Group Dynamics Salon
Group Dynamics: The Promise and Trouble of Being with Others
A Thrivable World relies on us co-creating. Yet, group dynamics can be our biggest challenge. Get some clues about when to be leaderful in non-hierarchical groups and when to step back! Dig into the being/doing challenge and emerge with some frameworks for navigating loose (s)crews.
Artificial Abundance: AI and Thrivabilty
Artificial Abundance: Notes from an hour-long discussion on AI and Thrivability
Together, we explore the ways in which AI can improve healthcare and education, streamline mundane tasks, and unlock new frontiers of human potential. But we also delve into the darker side of this brave new world – the potential for job displacement, the ethical quandaries of creating autonomous systems, and the risk of creating a society that serves the needs of machines rather than humans… and maybe, possibly, most definitely, we delve into possibilities of blessings and shadows we haven’t considered yet.
Distributed Governance: The Making of Functional Peer to Peer Networks
We all know the challenges of pyramidal hierarchies, but how do we actually and effectively coordinate with each other by other means? This course surveys emergent practices in distributed work, supply chain logistics, DAOs, and commoning in general.