Since the August 3rd update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized 15 events. This update documents three forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the 15 most recent past events.
Three Forthcoming Events
In order to RSVP to attend these events, you must join either the 52 Living Ideas meetup or the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society meetup. Joining either group will require joining Meetup.com which is a free on-line service with strong privacy controls. Once you are a member, you can RSVP to join the event from the link to its Event Page.
- 30 September 2020 @9PM (New York time): Polymath Power with Michael Araki (Event Page at Thinking Society). Breaking with the limitations of disciplinary thinking.
- 7 October 2020 @9PM (New York time): Cancelled.
- 14 October 2020 @9PM (New York time): “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” (1969 book by R. Buckminster Fuller) with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at Thinking Society). This event’s title and description will change to “The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller” when a brief synopsis of the book is available. The synopsis will enable those participants who were unable to read Bucky’s “Operating Manual” to explore its ideas with the whole group.
The 15 Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 2 August 2020: Louis Sullivan’s Idea: “Every Problem Contains & Suggests its Own Solution” (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 5 August 2020: Most Effective Habit Change Method & Optimizing Everything with Spencer Greenberg (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 9 August 2020: Human Condition as Interaction of Four Functions/Systems (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Second Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 12 August 2020: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 16 August 2020: Do Your Own 50 Year Experiment: Ideas of Buckminster Fuller with D.W. Jacobs (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 19 August 2020: Polymaths of the 21st Century with Dr. Angela Cotellessa (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 26 August 2020: The Art-Experience and The Nature of Our Identities with Karen Montanaro (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 30 August 2020: History of Polymath Research with Drs Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 30 August 2020: Overview of Four Functions: Intuiting, Deliberating, Transforming, Valuing
(Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) - 2 September 2020: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 6 September 2020: What is Mathematical Thinking & How to Foster Love of Math in Children & Adults? with Stacy Harris (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 9 September 2020: The Four Cardinal Virtues: Perspective & Retrospective with John Roth (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 13 September 2020: Calculus for Everyone: What is it & What can it do for You? with Stacy Harris (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 16 September 2020: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
- 23 September 2020: Lightning Talks—Your Turn: Talk about Your Explorations (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society)
About Comprehensivist Wednesdays
Comprehensivist Wednesdays is an on-going series of weekly events designed to foster the art of comprehensivity, the state or quality of considering with ever increasing depth and breadth more and more of Humanity’s great traditions of inquiry and action to better comprehend how our worlds work and how they change so we can live more effective lives. Buckminster Fuller described the approach as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
The series is being organized by emcee Shrikant Rangnekar of 52 Living Ideas in collaboration with CJ Fearnley of Collaborating for Comprehensivism and the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society. There is a YouTube playlist with all videos from the “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” series (click here).
Collaborating for Comprehensivism is an emerging initiative to energize humanity’s collective intelligence through collaborations that facilitate incrementally the formation of ever broader and deeper understandings of our worlds and its peoples.
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Addendum: Other Comprehensivist Wednesday's Series News Releases
- “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” begins 15 July 2020 @9-11PM EDT
- August 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- September 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- October 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- November 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- December 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- January 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- March 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- April 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- June 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
