Conversations #6 - George Por

Conversations

Hey Eclectic Spacewalkers!

Back in October, after traveling to Copenhagen and then to London, we headed to Brighton, on the southern coast of the UK, to speak with George Por.

George Por is the Founder & Academic Dean of Campus Co-Evolve, or “The Campus.” Campus Co-Evolve is a unique digital higher education prototype. Their ambitions are of the highest order in pioneering learning techniques that can be used at three all encompassing scales.

Our purpose is “to trigger viral waves of new capabilities for facilitating profound transformation on three scales — personal, organizational, and societal.”

Campus Co-Evolve is still relatively new, as it has only been around for a year or so, but there is much promise. Given more capital with successful cohorts and committed teachers we could be hearing more about The Campus in the future of education.

George has a long track record of teaching, mentorship, and being a r.evolutionary change agent. Our conversation was wide ranging & thought provoking. We talked about The Campus, but also got into civilization renewal, reinvigorating the commons, and the importance of adding evolutionary thinking into your repertoire of seeing reality.

Enjoy the conversation, and until next time - Ad Astra!

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Timestamps

• What did you want to be when you grew up? (00:01:42)
  
• George’s story about being being kicked out of university, spending 20 months in jail, and exiled from Hungary in the 1960s. (00:06:03)
  
• George talks about his “Circle of Life” work, and it changing every year (00:13:14)
  
• George started a magazine called “Enlivening Edge” (00:23:45)

BEGINNING OF PART TWO (00:29:12)

• George founded a company called Community Intelligence which is “enabling the next stage of development and people and organizations” (00:29:12)
  
• “Organizational theories interests me only if they can be tested and practice & are improving the lives of people while moving the organization that they work with to its next stage of capabilities. (00:35:30)
  
• What are “The Commons?” (00:44:49)
  
• How has mentor-ship & teaching changed you personally? (00:48:28)

BEGINNING OF PART THREE (00:52:54)

• Why did you start Campus Co-Evolve? (00:52:54)
  
• Five Pillars of Campus Co-Evolve (00:58:15)
  
• Campus Co-Evolve is donation based instead of tuition (01:05:12)
  
• If you were at the International Space Station or say the moon with a whole world looking up at you (Experiencing “The Overview Effect”), what would you say? (01:11:41)

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More on George Por:

Campus Co-Evolve Website: https://campus-coevolve.org/

Community Intelligence Website: https://community-intelligence.com/

EnLivening Edge Newsletter: https://www.enliveningedge.org/

George’s Twitter: @TechnoShaman

George’s Medium: https://medium.com/@technoshaman

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