DAVID SIBBET is founder of The Grove Consultants International and He is retired from active management of The Grove, now lead by Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. his spouse, and is focusing on writing, leadership coaching, and mentoring the Grove team.
This post explores what I mean by “layered intelligence.” It's a visual prompt for a section of Visual Intelligence, the book I'm working on.
This post walks through my design process for creating a graphic model of how to read infographic imagery. These are early drafts but I wanted to share them in this form in service of all of us learning how to use these amazing tools.
I’m deep into writing a new book provisionally titled Visual Intelligence: Developing Human Judgment in the Age of Thinking Machine. It’s about six transformation processes I have experienced where groups faced uncertainty and came to new commitments and judgments that have sustained them since.
Sawdust and wood scraps all over the drive. Began a full sweep around the perimeter. Each broom stroke moved the mess toward a center pile. It got me thinking. Social
In January of 2026 Gisela followed the advice of some friends to visit Sri Ammani in Tiruvannamalai, India, after a Patrick Conner program being held there. Her experience moved her deeply.
This video walks through the four key concepts that together define the Theory of Process. It is a helpful orientation to the subsequent written pieces that walk through the theory
The Wisdom of Lived Experience
Several things came together and prompted this post about the oil crises we all are facing. The first was the war in Iran of course. The second was spending some
A small organization in Sebastopol called SAND, for Science and Nonduality, recently organized a conversation called The Architecture of Silence in Spiritual Culture, Reckoning with Epstein, Deepak, and Systems of Denial.
I had an experience of hope recently listening to a YouTube conversation between Paul Anleinter and Jordan Hall. I was attracted to the title The AI Apocalypse is Here: AI,
The Fifth in a Theory of Process Series—Exploring the Seven Stage Arc of Process
