Seeded Conversations

What are Seeded Conversations?

From its beginning, the Collective Wisdom Initiative (CWI) has been committed to making visible the study & practice of collective wisdom, in part through inviting a number of 'seed papers' & publishing them on the website.

Seeded Conversations are a natural extension of these 'seed papers', offering an opportunity for deeper interaction within our growing community.

We propose that something “quite else” can happen when a group of people begins to see and contemplate common images & ideas from diverse perspectives and by means of multiple ways of knowing; Seeded Conversations offer a context & medium for this ‘something else’ to happen.

We invite you to participate in this experiment with collective consciousness by reading and listening to what calls to you in these pages and then adding (as you choose) your thoughts and reflections to the emergent curiosity and understanding that is beginning to form there.

The Seeded Conversations are listed alphabetically by topic in the left-hand column for your convenience, and described in more depth below, with the most recently-added conversation appearing at the top.


Seeded Conversations can be found throughout the Collective Wisdom Initiative website wherever you see these little red seeds.

Hunab Ku

What do sacred symbols, archetypes and geometric patterns have to do with collective wisdom?

In this first “seeded conversation”, we have taken four symbols from Hunab Ku: 77 Sacred Symbols for Balancing Body and Spirit, the new book by Karen Speerstra and her son Joel, and invite you to share your reflections and thoughts on each of them and the way they intersect with collective wisdom.

[> to the seeded conversation on Hunab Ku].

Hunab Ku is featured as a whole in an in-depth section on the Collective Wisdom Initiative website.

What is Collective Wisdom?

This seeded conversation focuses on the question 'What is Collective Wisdom?', as presented in the opening speech given by Dr. Albrecht Mahr at a conference on Collective Wisdom held in Wurzburg, Germany in April, 2006.

We invite you to voice your thoughts about this engaging subject.

[> to the seeded conversation on 'What is Collective Wisdom']

To learn more about the conference and other events of interest on this subject, visit the events page on the Collective Wisdom Initiative website.