Case studies: sources of potential insights and learnings

Embodiment of Change: Comprehension, Traction and Impact? (Part #4)

These offer a reminder that little effort is made to learn from ambitious collective initiatives of the past -- on which documentation is variously available

Deepwater Oil Spill (2010): Enabling Collective Intelligence in Response to Emergencies Illustrated by the case of deep oil spill containment (2011)
Phoenix Gathering of the Phoenix Project
Synthesis Dialogues of the Association for Global New Thought: Evaluating Synthesis Initiatives and their Sustaining Dialogues Possible questions as a guide to criteria of evaluation of any synthesis initiative (2000)
Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) of the United Nations University: Complete List of Papers
Parliament of the World's Religions: Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue (1993)
Institute of Cultural Affairs: Collective strategy making: designing a strategic array (1995)
World Congress on Transdisciplinarity: Transdisciplinarity through Structured Dialogue: beyond sterile dualities in meetings to the challenge of participant impotence (1995)
Club of Rome: Club of Rome Reports and Bifurcations: a 40-year overview (2010)
Earth Summit: Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue: summary of analysis on the occasion of Earth Summit (1992)
World Social Forum: Jai Sen and Peter Waterman (Eds.), World Social Forum: Challenging Empires (2007)
World Economic Forum: David Bornstein, How to Change the World (2007); Mike Moore, A World Without Walls (2003); Geoffrey Allen Pigman, The World Economic Forum (2007); David J. Rothkopf, Superclass (2008).
International Symposium "Research across Boundaries": Enacting Transformative Integral Thinking through Playful Elegance: a Symposium at the End of the Universe? (2010)
Society for General Systems Research: Metaconferencing: discovering people / viewpoint networks in conferences (1980)
United Nations Climate Change Conference (2009): Insights for the Future from the Change of Climate in Copenhagen (2010)
International Forum for Climate Justice (2010) : From Changing the Strategic Game to Changing the Strategic Frame: missing cognitive possibility in changing the system not the planet (2010)