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The Wisdom Council Process

The Wisdom Council Process has twelve principles. If all of them are met, then the people of a large system have a way to come together thoughtfully and creatively as "We the People." It's a way to structure a Wise Democracy, where the people are in charge of the system making collective choices that are thoughtful, intelligent, and creative. This approach can be applied to any large system—community, organization, city, nation, business, school, co-op, network, or corporation.
What does it look like?
Every three to six months twelve members of a community are randomly selected to meet for a few days as a Wisdom Council. Each Wisdom Council identifies and addresses an issue of high importance, whether solvable or not. The Wisdom Council is dynamically facilitated to achieve a quality of conversation known as “choice-creating,” where they creatively and collaboratively determine an unanimous strategy to address this issue. Then they present this perspective back to the community, along with their story of how they got there. Everyone in the community or organization is invited to hear this perspective, reflect on it with others in small groups, and report back his or her level of resonance. After such a presentation and conversation generally people recognize that most everyone is in sync, saying,"Yes, I think so too!".
Even when some disagree, others are generally are interested in their viewpoint seeking to incorporate it. So here is to shift the public conversation away from partisan battling toward a more creative conversation, addressing the issues of greatest importance, generating collaboration, and developing one voice of "We the People" over time. Experts, leaders, special interest groups and general folk are all included in this ongoing public conversation facilitated by the ongoing series of Wisdom Councils.
Paradoxically, even though people come more into alignment, they also become more uniquely themselves. This is because choice-creating requires individual differences in order to achieve the shifts and breakthroughs required for win/win unity.

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Most Wisdom Council experiments have been organized by a few concerned citizens or by government agencies. See some of the experiments with the Wisdom Council.

Resources on the Wisdom Council

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