Since the October 26th update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized seven events. This update documents five forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the seven most recent past events.
Five 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.
- Wed 25 November 2020 9PM (New York time): Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Event Page at Thinking Society). An exploration of the book “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein.
- Sun 29 November 2020 2:30PM (New York time): The Ethos of a Modern Day Polymath with Michael Araki & Dr Angela Cotellessa. An exploration of the “personality anatomy of polymathic people”.
- Wed 2 December 2020 9PM (New York time): Lessons from Interviews with Polymaths with Dustin Miller (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Wed 9 December 2020 9PM (New York time): Understanding Us: Core Concepts in Neuroscience
- Wed 16 December 2020 9PM (New York time): The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses (Event Page at Thinking Society). Exploring T. C. Chamberlin’s seminal idea in the practice of science and its applications to comprehensivism.
The Seven Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 28 October 2020: Systems Thinking of Russell Ackoff (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Exploring the ideas of systems thinking pioneer Russell Ackoff.
- Video (1h 29m): Russell Ackoff & Systems Thinking
- 31 October 2020: Synergy: Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- Exploring one of Bucky’s central ideas from “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”
- Video (1h 17m): Buckminster Fuller: Synergy & Wealth
- 1 November 2020: How To Become a Polymath with Dr Angela Cotellessa, Dustin Miller, & Eric Trules (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- 4 November 2020: Learn by Teaching — Try it for 5 Minutes (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Some 20 participants presented about their diverse learning: a comprehensivist’s smorgasbord! Topics included: Limits of learning, Learning to Learn, Experience of Teaching, How to help kids learn, Learning the Tibetan language, Positive disintegration, Agent based modeling, Criminal justice reform, Risk management, System/Design/Behavioral thinking, Hindu philosophy, Ken Burn documentaries, Love of Power, Consciousness, Grounding of ideas, Systematic comprehensivist education, Positive psychology, Building websites with Raspberry Pi, and more.
- Video (2h 36m): Learn by Teaching
- 7 November 2020: Bucky Fuller’s Main Theses in “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- 11 November 2020: Syntopical Reading, Great Ideas & The Great Conversation (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 18 November 2020: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Exploring the value of the Ethnosphere and its connection to comprehensivist learning.
- Essay on The Value of The Ethnosphere
- Video (1h 30m): Value of the Ethnosphere
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, more and more of Humanity’s communicated experiences that comprise Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Universe, and more and more of the Ethnosphere (Wade Davis’ cultural analogue of the biosphere). 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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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
