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This guided learning journey will introduce the basics of the ProSocial method as an applied change process and welcome participants into our growing global ProSocial Commons community.
This course provides weekly peer-group meetings to discuss, explore and deepen the work. Participants will be supported in identifying and working on their particular collaborative needs and goals.
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An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson, Evolution Denier
How does an intelligent mind dismiss rock-solid evidence in one matter and embrace unreliable and fanciful reports in another?
DNA, Nabokov, and Biogeography
Role Playing in Human Evolution: From Life to Art
Natural Selection and Multilevel Selection as Causal Theories
Making the Stone Stony: How the Arts Can Help Us Navigate Cultural Evolution
Stories are essentially relational: while we might read them alone, they move us in relation to each other and create relationship in us.
The Tide of Opinion on Group Selection has Turned
The acceptance of group selection has all the earmarks of a paradigm shift.
Hollywood Climate Movies and The Potential of Tragedy
Filmic tragedies about climate change would be a better genre than melodrama to help promote perspective and purpose for the ethical and political difficulties ahead.
Williams’ Rule and Its Relevance for Positive Change Efforts
The Arts as a Communal Signaling Device
Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination
The Theory and Practice of Cultural Evolution: Past, Present, and Future, with Peter J. Richerson
Join us as we discuss the past, present, and future of the vitally important topic of Nature vs. Nurture.
Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?
The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.