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Documents relating to International Facilitation and Empowerment

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• [2010] Designing Global Self-governance for the Future (151k, 154w)
• [2010] Enabling Collective Intelligence in Response to Emergencies (36k, 29w)
• [2009] Enabling Strategies for Viable Futures (59k, 162w)
• [2009] Global Strategic Alternatives for the 21st Century? (6k, 11w)
• [2009] If... (4k)
• [2009] Varieties of Confidence Essential to Sustainability (22k, 29w)
• [2008] Global Quality Navigation System (GQS): participative enhancement of aesthetic discovery (26k, 4w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Conference Representation as a Catalyst for Innovation (4k, 9w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (3k)
• [2008] Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (161k, 145w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Pattern Language: Software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization (218k, 214w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Representation of Conference Dynamics: integrative configuration of panelists, dialogues, topics and threads (15k, 17w)
• [2007] Convertor from Text to Poetry, Song or Music: Computer-assisted aesthetic enhancement of treaties, declarations and agreements (78k, 83w)
• [2007] From ECHELON to NOLEHCE: enabling a strategic conversion to a faith-based global brain (60k, 44w)
• [2007] History of Participant Interaction Messaging (1979-1995) (11k, 17w)
• [2007] In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics (66k, 90w)
• [2007] Transforming Static Websites into Mobile "Wizdomes": enabling change through intertwining dynamic and configurative metaphors (128k, 113w)
• [2007] University of Earth: Questing for a more comprehensive dream (3k, 10w)
• [2006] Creative Cognitive Engagement: Beyond the limitations of descriptive patterning (103k, 92w)
• [2006] Enabling a Living Library: reconciling "free voices" and "intellectual propriety" (20k, 46w)
• [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats (140k, 185w)
• [2005] Integrative Design Metaphors: enabling strategic comprehension of the global brain * (9k, 3w)
• [2005] Playfully Changing the Prevailing Climate of Opinion: Climate change as focal metaphor of effective global governance (199k, 247w)
• [2004] Attitude Entrainment: Communicating thrival skills and insights (52k, 53w)
• [2003] Complementary Truth-handling Strategies: Mediating the relationship between the "Last class" and the "Liar class" (52k, 20w)
• [2003] Embodying a Timeship vs. Empowering a Spaceship (40k, 39w)
• [2003] Terminal Empowerment: socio-political implications of radical mutual assistance amongst the terminally ill (37k, 25w)
• [2003] Timeship: Conception, Technology, Design, Embodiment and Operation (63k, 46w)
• [2002] Conceptual Ground Zero: empowerment declaration * (2k)
• [2001] Enabling Creative Response to Extraordinary Crises (36k, 17w)
• [2001] Enhancing the Quality of Email Dialogue using Artificial Intelligence (36k, 17w)
• [2000] Designing Cultural Rosaries and Meaning Malas to Sustain Associations within the Pattern that Connects (57k, 43w)
• [2000] Designing a Team for Alien Encounter: Communicating with Aliens (Part IV) (25k, 50w)
• [2000] Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors (122k, 96w)
• [1998] Emptying Meetings and Fulfilling Participants: Ensuring that encounters are fruitful (14k)
• [1998] Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors (76k, 5w)
• [1998] Living Differences as a basis for Sustainable Community: Designing a difference engine (73k, 29w)
• [1998] Spherical configuration of interlocking roundtables: Internet enhancement of global self-organization through patterns of dialogue (42k, 41w)
• [1996] Facilitating Community through Information: suite of software-enabled participation tools (74k, 2w)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in dialogue meeting design (7k)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in online dialogue meeting design (13k)
• [1995] Comprehending policy meshing and entrainment (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Definitional Boundary Games and De-signing the 21st Century (19k)
• [1995] Design choices for global coherence (Context: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Designing the 21st Century: Integration of Arts and Sciences (16k, 1w)
• [1995] Designing metaphors and sets of metaphors (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Designing a strategic array (Collective strategy-making: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Enhancement of policy through key poetic insights (Poetry and Policy: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Enhancing policy through powerful metaphors (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Governance through enhancing the movement of meaning (Governance: Metaphor Project)
• [1994] Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems (12k)
• [1994] In Quest of Radical Coherence: a group design initiative (10k, 1w)
• [1993] Enhancement of Policy through Key Poetic Insights: Poetry-making and Policy-making (Part F) (38k, 1w)
• [1993] Facilitation in a Cross-cultural Environment (28k, 2w)
• [1993] Possible Meeting Facilitation Services (23k)
• [1993] Systems of Categories Distinguishing Cultural Biases: with notes on facilitation in a multicultural environment (19k, 4w)
• [1988] Enhancing Policy Forums through Ecological Metaphors (7k, 1w)
• [1984] Yearbook of World Problems and Human Potential: re-design Human Potential portion (39k, 2w)
• [1983] Further Constraints on Conceptual Container Design (34k, 78w)
• [1981] Anti-Developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design (50k, 2w)
• [1979] Development beyond Science to Wisdom: Facilitating the emergence of configurative understanding in Councils of the Wise through computer conferencing dialogue (58k, 12w)
• [1979] The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (95k, 8w)
• [1978] Enhancement of Communications between Commonwealth Organizations using Computer-conferencing Techniques (80k)
• [1978] Facilitating the Networking Processes of a Transnational University Using Computer Conferencing (ref)
• [1978] Organization and Lifestyle Design: Characteristics of a nonverbal structural language (55k, 11w)
• [1978] Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity: A lesson in organisation from building design (45k)
• [1977] Computer Conferencing as a Means of Enhancing Communication at a Large Conference / Festival (56k)
• [1977] Enhancing Communication at a Large Conference/Festival: Using Computer Conferencing (ref)
• [1977] Enhancing Transnational Network Action (17k)
• [1977] Facilitating Group Formation (ref)
• [1977] Lifestyle Interdependence, Context and Design (45k, 6w)
• [1975] Facilitative Environments for Personal Development (ref)
• [1975] Preliminary Notes on the Mathematical Analysis of Networks of Psychosocial Entities in Order to Facilitate their Comprehension (ref)
• [1975] Technical Facilitation of Meeting Dynamics and Participant Inter-action (56k, 1w)
• [1974] The Harmony of Interaction and the Facilitation of Network Processes (40k)
• [1971] Design of an information system to facilitate the production of concept thesauri by different schools of thought (15k, 1w)
• [1971] Inter-organizational data and data bank design (72k, 1w)
• [1971] Relationship Between Elements of Knowledge: use of computer systems to facilitate construction, comprehension and comparison of the concept thesauri of different schools of thought (ref)
• [1970] Development of Transdisciplinary Conceptual Aids (51k, 2w)
• [1970] Tools for the Future: International Organizations and the Generation of the Will to Change (41k, 1w)
• [1969] Description of a Proposed Information System to Facilitate Contact between Organizations (39k)
• [1969] Tentative Basis for the Design and Build-up of a Network File (12k)

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