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What is the Wisdom Council?

The Wisdom Council is a way the people of a very large system—e.g. citizens of a community, members of an organization, citizens of a nation—can address and solve difficult issues together — achieving thoughtful, near-unanimous results. The process builds the spirit of community, solves difficult problems, and builds the capacity for collective wisdom.

The Wisdom Council can be used in different ways but basically twelve or so people from the community are randomly selected. They are dynamically facilitated to achieve the spirit of choice-creating on some important issue. If the issue is chosen for them it's a (1) Creative Insight Council. If group choses it for themselves it's a (2) traditional Wisdom Council. In any case the Wisdom Council works because of the spirit of the conversation, which is called "choice-creating." The people on the Council achieve a thoughtful unified position, which they excitedly report back to the whole population. In the spirit of choice-creating, the immediate audience resonates with the conclusions, and continues the conversation in a similar spirit. Plus, the whole-system continues in the spirit of choice-creating as different views are valued, creativity is embraced and unity is sought.

So here's a way governments can transcend partisanship on difficult stuck public issues by setting up a Creative Insight Council.
Or government can provide a way for the people determine the issue and provide direction using an Individual Wisdom Council.
Also, here's a way that ordinary citizens of a town or state can spark a change in public conversation. They can convene a Creative Insight Council or use The Wisdom Council Process to establish on ongoing creative conversation.
Plus, here's a strategy for transforming the national and global "System" away from special interest dominance to where "We the People" bring collective consciousness to our nation and to the world. Key is using the Wise Democracy strategy to go from collective stupidity to collective intelligence..

OTHER RESOURCES

A number of books describe the Wisdom Council strategy as a way to bring new levels of democracy including:
Society's Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People by Jim Rough;
Tao of Democracy by Tom Atlee
Spontaneous Evolution by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
Escaping the Matrix by Richard K. Moore
Reuniting America by Joseph McCormick and Steve Bhaerrman
Empowering Public Wisdom by Tom Atlee

Handout: "Wise Democracy Strategy"
Article: A Rebirth of 'We the People' by Jim Rough

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