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 We develop and teach social innovations about ... how to facilitate people to face and solve their most pressing, impossible-seeming issues. 
These innovations can facilitate "all the people" of a large system to work together creatively and collaboratively as "We the People."

We bring good news ... a breakthrough approach for solving impossible-seeming issues. It works for individuals, groups, organizations and society.  This approach is made possible through social innovations including:
  • Choice-creating ... recognizing the heartfelt  creative quality of thinking by which impossible problems can be solved ... opposite to "decision-making".
  • Dynamic Facilitation (DF) ...  a way to reliably facilitate small groups to think together in the spirit of choice-creating ...  to face impossible-seeming issues and achieve breakthrough results.
  • The Wisdom Council Process (WCP)...  where we use a series of small groups of randomly selected people, plus Dynamic Facilitation, to facilitate large systems of people (communities, nations, etc.) into the spirit of choice-creating. Here's a way to facilitate "the people" to come together to a new level of collective intelligence.
  • ​Society's Breakthrough ... applying the Wisdom Council Process to national and global society. Our systems of economics and governance are inadequate for solving ... and may be causing ... today's problems. This is a way to facilitate a transformation of our systems of economics and governance to where we bring out best in all of us.

Bottom line: If you are worried about big issues in society ... e.g. climate change, wars, poverty, etc. ... here is a new-paradigm solution approach that's already proven to work.

As a climate scientist recently said, "the climate problem is primarily a people issue, not a technical one. People need to care about the issue, pull together on what to do, and act coherently in doing it." ... We offer an approach for achieving this at the global level ... and  for all levels of society ... as illustrated below:
  • Local towns, cities & communities ...  See the flyer for how a group of citizens (or government, or a community foundation) can facilitate the citizens of a community to get involved, face and resolve hot issues, and do it in a way that builds the spirit of community. (See examples.)
  • ​Global society...To solve issues like climate change and to adequately manage the global commons (e.g. soils, water, oceans, the gene pool, overfishing, and species extinction) requires a collective thinking process. The people need to come together as "We the People," take ultimate responsibility for our planet and intelligently steward our threatened planet. We (a few of us) can facilitate this "We the People" conversation into being.  See Transforming Global Society.
  • National society  (e.g American democracy)  ... A competition-based form of government was a good design for the 18th century. But as we become more inter-dependent, it cannot last. But how do we keep individual freedoms and initiative, but also work together collaboratively toward shared goals? ... The Wisdom Council Process takes nothing away from our current system. It just adds a new conversation by which the missing element of our democracy comes into being, "We the People". Using the Wisdom Council Process nationally we can heal the partisan divide, assure election quality, overcome the outsized influence of money on politics, eliminate corruption, etc., etc.  
  • The state ... The Wisdom Council Process has already been adopted into the state constitution of Vorarlberg, the Westernmost state of Austria. It's being used there to help resolve issues like the influx of Syrian refugees, healthcare and land use planning. (See examples). So we know the Wisdom Council Process works at this scale.
  • organizations ... e.g. The Wisdom Council Process can also be used in organizations, conferences and human networks as well. (see examples:  a food co-op, a conference, corporations)
-To understand this new-paradigm approach most people need to experience it ... Building this personal experience best happens from taking a seminar. See the seminars on  "Dynamic Facilitation."
EXAMPLE #1: State-wide ... Here's a short video showing how governments in Austria are using the Wisdom Council Process to help citizens address and solve hot issues, like the influx of refugees.
EXAMPLE #2: Nationally in the United States bitter political battling obliterates the possibility of collective intelligence. Most people feel excluded from democratic participation. And elected representatives often  represent moneyed interests more than their constituents.  How might we (just a few of us) facilitate the necessary whole-system public conversation necessary for true democracy?  ... where we think together in the spirit of choice-creating and reach shared conclusions? Below is a short video describing one example for how this might happen ... using Dynamic Facilitation and the Wisdom Council Process within a reality TV show (3.5 min video):
Check out "Our Story" of how these social innovations and this whole-system strategy came about.

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