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  We offer a set of social innovations to facilitate breakthrough progress on society's most urgent impossible-seeming issues ... at each level of society. 
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To SOLVE society's biggest, most impossible-seeming problems we must all collaborate. Currently our System structures competition instead. There is little opportunity for us to come together as a wise and responsible "We the People." 

​​At the Center for Wise Democracy we offer a set of social innovations by which to facilitate the missing "We the People" conversation into being.


Wouldn't it be great ... ... if we (just a few of us) could spark a new  "We the People" conversation into being ... globally, nationally and locally? Where “all” the people come together in a creative conversation to...
  • Face today's biggest problems and co-create shared perspectives on what is really going on, what we want, and the best strategy going forward?
  • Achieve breakthrough solutions to each impossible-seeming problem?
  • Provide wise leadership to elected officials, corporations, NGO's and the culture?
  • Assure that our System brings improvements to each person's life? ... including increased equity, awareness, understanding, freedom, healing, consciousness, empowerment and meaning?
  • Restructure our sub-systems like Healthcare, Education, Taxes, etc. toward serving the "Public Interest" vs. Special Interests?

The Wisdom Council Process is a social innovation that can be used to achieve this shift. This is laid out in 8-steps as The ToBe Project, which can be used nationally, globally and in your local community.

Wise Democracy is achievable ... at each level of society

  1. ​Global society...To solve issues like the climate crisis and to adequately manage other global commons like.soils, fresh water, oceans, the gene pool, overfishing, species extinction, etc., requires an ongoing, creative, collaborative, whole-system thinking process. ... All of us need to work together as a global "We the People", facing the big impossible-seeming problems and determining the best path forward. To see how this can be achieved requires some new understandings about process (See the free seminar "Essential Wisdom for solving society's biggest problems.") We (a few of us) can FACILITATE this global "We the People" conversation into being.  See Transforming Global Society.
  2. National society  (e.g The United States)  ... The founders of the United States designed a constitutional republic, a system of government with a basis in competition. This was a huge leap forward for humankind. But as we have become more inter-dependent, competition shifts from win/win to lose/lose. How do we preserve the benefits of our current system, yet safely transition to a more collaborative Wise Democracy? ... See Solving National Issues.
  3. States... The Wisdom Council Process has already been adopted into the constitutions of two states of Austria where it is being used to help resolve difficult heated issues like the influx of Syrian refugees, land use planning, etc. They use it as a way to benefit elected officials by reducing partisan wrangling and establishing a clear wise voice of the "public will". See Solving STATE issues.
  4. Local towns, cities & communities ... A group of citizens can implement the ToBe Project at the local level to facilitate "the people" to address and solve difficult issues. See Solving COMMUNITY issues
  5. Organizations ... The Wisdom Council Process can also be used in organizations, churches, conferences and other human networks. (See examples:  a food co-op, a conference, corporations) For organizations that seek improvements but do not seek system transformation, people have chosen to modify the Wisdom Council Process. In that case we call it the "Creative Insight Council".

The Social Innovations are ...

At the Center for Wise Democracy we offer a set of social innovations including choice-creating, Dynamic Facilitation, the Wisdom Council Process and Society's Breakthrough that open new doors of possibility for collective wisdom to emerge. ​
  1. Choice-creating ... is a form of thinking where groups face impossible-seeming issues and reach clarity on what is the situation and what to do. Choice-creating is "opposite" to decision-making (See chart of comparison)
  2. Dynamic Facilitation (DF) ...  is a way to reliably facilitate groups into the spirit of choice-creating, where they face difficult issues and achieve win/win unity. 
  3. The Wisdom Council Process (WCP)...  is a way to facilitate large systems of people into the spirit of choice-creating. It combines an ongoing series of randomly selected people, Dynamic Facilitation and opportunities for the public to hear and consider the results. Using it a large system of people (e.g. community, corporation or nation) can face and solve big problems together (i.e. "wise democracy")
  4. ​Society's Breakthrough ... is when we apply the Wisdom Council Process to society itself, global or national.  Here's how a society can transform itself toward collective wisdom — i.e. economics, governance and the culture.

2 min video introduction to the social innovations

New possibilities for you

Example #1 ... for the U.S. (3.5 min video)

Currently in the United States bitter political battling obliterates the possibility of collective intelligence. Most people feel excluded from democratic participation as elected leaders represent moneyed interests more than their constituents. How might we (just a few of us) facilitate all the people to come together as a wise and responsible "We the People"?  ... where We face the Monster issues, reach shared conclusions and provide responsible leadership to elected leaders? Below is a short video describing how this might happen using a Reality TV Show. (3.5 min video):

Example #2

This set of social innovations has been taken up in parts of Central Europe like communities and states in Austria and Germany. Especially the Vorarlberg government has incorporated the Wisdom Council Process into their state constitution. See Seven short videos they sponsored IN ENGLISH. (https://www.buergerrat.net/english-version/) Below is one example, a short video illustrating how the state government of Voralberg in Austria used the Wisdom Council Process to help citizens address and solve a contentious issue: the influx of refugees.
To understand this new-paradigm approach most people find it valuable to experience it by taking a seminar. See the seminars on  "Dynamic Facilitation."
Check out "Our Story" of how these social innovations and this whole-system strategy came about.
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