What is the Wisdom Council?
The Wisdom Council is a way that the people of a very large system—employees of an international company, citizens of a nation, or attendees at a conference—can address and solve difficult issues together achieving thoughtful, unanimous results ... while the process builds the spirit of community and excellence.
Basically, the idea is to randomly select twelve or so people from the community, dynamically facilitate them to achieve the spirit of choice-creating on important issues, and have them report their unanimous conclusions to the whole population. Because the thinking process is choice-creating, where people creatively seek what's best for all, wisdom is a natural result. The Council unanimously and excitedly tells their story of progress, which most everyone supports.
The Wisdom Council was first developed as a strategy for whole system transformation, having 12 principles. In the meantime experiments with Wisdom Councils using only 8 or 9 of the principles have worked for other purposes. Here are some of the Wisdom Council innovations:
1) Creative Insight Councils ... or Insight Councils ... Here's a way "the people" can weigh in on a hot topic, break up the usual partisan gridlock, and leap things ahead toward a wise solution. The principle difference from the Wisdom Council Process is that, in this case, the topic is chosen ahead of time. Other differences are that the CIC meets with stakeholders beforehand and is temporary rather than ongoing.
2) Individual Wisdom Councils) ... Here's a chance to build a perspective of the people, by the people and for the people. Here, the people choose the issue and frame it. There is no ongoing process however, so it fits nicely within the existing system.
3) The Wisdom Council Process ... where we seek to apply all twelve principles to a given system and to create a legitimate new source of power in "We the People." This is a way, for instance, that a city can have the people ultimately take charge.
4) Society's Breakthrough ... This is the application of the Wisdom Council Process to society itself, either at the national or global level. If you think the current socio-political-economic system is unsustainable and there needs to be a safe way to transition to something else, here is a way. The twelve principles are critical.
Wisdom Council Process forms the foundation of the Wisdom Council has become a set of social innovations. possible to achieve this on choice-creating, where people are of deliberation, to facilitate this whole-system Dynamic Facili by which all the people of a large system come together thoughtfully and creatively as "We the People" to take charge of the system. There are twelve principles to a Wisdom Council. make new choices. It's a way to structure a more thoughtful, intelligent, creative and collaborative public conversation, where We the People are ultimately in charge. It can be applied to any large system—community, organization, city, nation, business, school, co-op, network, or corporation.
What does it look like?
If all twelve principles of the Wisdom Council Process are met, then it can transform the syste
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