History of EmergeWiki

EmergeWiki was launched September 18th, 2024 by a small team at Emergence Benefactors.

It grew out of a specific conversation that began in early 2019 about how to actualize the value of certain traditional and contemporary maps of emergent development into useful clinical guidelines to help improve outcomes and lend value to care.

That lead to a small project at Cambridge University in the summer of 2019 exploring various approaches to this problem and identifying previous projects that had attempted to do something like this, barriers to overcome, and opportunities for research and clinical improvement, as well as the realistic scale of such a project in terms of time, financial resources, and expertise.

That conversation and parallel conversations in the growing group around it converged and lead to the formation of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) in late 2019. This lead to the formation of the charity Emergence Benefactors in early 2021.

In the Summer of 2021, Emergence Benefactors began building databases of phenomenology, textual sources, clinical scales, and taxonomic and conceptual models of emergence, following plan of the EPRC White Paper. They began launching the Expert Opinion Project Delphi Study in the Summer of 2024, whose goal is synthesize diverse expertise in Emergent Phenomena and its clinical and practical implications and best practices to form clinical recommendations. EmergeWiki is a related, parallel project designed to answer basically the same questions and accomplish basically the same ends but taking a different approach, as well as serving to disseminate this information and the results of studies, clinical guidelines, and related information in keeping with The Communications Project.