The First Rogue Valley Wisdom Council
was held on November 15 & 16, 2003
at the Red Lion Hotel in Medford.
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Wisdom Council members

And you know what?
It worked!

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    Seven citizens of the Rogue Valley — three women and four men, selected at random from the list of registered voters — agreed to spend an entire weekend doing something they'd never done before . . . to participate as members of something called a "Wisdom Council," to see if they could work together, to share ideas and feelings, to find common ground, to give a voice to "We the People."

    And they found that they could.

    Here are some pictures from the public meeting:
Public meeting
DeAnna Martin of the Center for Wise Democratic Processes
introduces the Wisdom Council members to the audience.


Public meeting groups
Audience members at the public meeting break out into discussion groups.

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