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  We offer a set of social innovations by which to facilitate "We the People" to achieve breakthrough progress on society's most pressing, impossible-seeming issues. 

At all levels of society we are encountering Monster Issues ... i.e. BIG impossible-seeming problems that MUST BE SOLVED. Nationally, for instance is the partisan divide. Globally, we are destroying the planetary basis of life.

At the Center for Wise Democracy we offer a breakthrough strategy ... by which "we" (a few of us) can facilitate "all" the people to come together as "We the People"; face these Monster Issues; reach unity through shifts and breakthroughs; and provide responsible leadership to governments, the economy and the culture. Note: if this new conversation continues as an ongoing "We the People" conversation, then a new System results (i.e. governance and economics).

The "Wisdom Council Process", already working in parts of Europe, can be applied locally, nationally and/or globally.
  • ​​Global society...To solve issues like the climate crisis and to adequately manage the global commons (e.g. soils, fresh water, oceans, the gene pool, overfishing, species extinction, etc.) requires a collective thinking process that is creative and collaborative. It's not enough to just raise people's awareness. Or to get more people to participate. Nor even to pass responsible legislation.  ... All of us need to start thinking together as "We the People" about what's going on, what we want and what to do. This is not as hard to achieve as it may seem. We (a few of us) can FACILITATE this essential "We the People" conversation.  See 1) Transforming Global Society.
  • National society  (e.g American democracy)  ... A competition-based form of government was a good design for the 18th century. But it naturally breaks down as we become less in-dependent and more inter-dependent. How do we preserve the amazing progress we've made, yet safely transition to the next viable system? ... See 2) Solving National Issues.
  • State-wide ... The Wisdom Council Process has already been adopted state-wide in two of the nine states of Austria. There it is being used to help resolve issues like the influx of Syrian refugees and land use planning. Here's a way to involve citizens in understanding the issues, clarifying what they want, and articulating the "will of the people". Elected officials benefit from this new partnership. See 3) Solving STATE issues.
  • Local towns, cities & communities ... A group of community leaders (or government) can implement the Wisdom Council Process to facilitate "the people" to address and solve difficult issues. See 4) Solving COMMUNITY issues
  • Organizations ... The Wisdom Council Process can also be used in organizations, conferences and various human networks. (See examples:  a food co-op, a conference, corporations)
The social innovations we offer and teach are real and largely proven. They include:
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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")
  • ​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 consciousness — i.e. economics, governance and civic life.

2min video introduction to the social innovations

National Illustration 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. And elected leaders often 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 reach shared conclusions and provide responsible leadership to elected leaders? Below is a short video describing how this might happen within a reality TV Show. (3.5 min video):

Two Examples from Austria

 Here's are two short videos showing how the state government of Voralberg in Austria is using the Wisdom Council Process to help citizens address and solve contentious issues, like the influx of refugees and land use planning.
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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