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We offer social innovations to facilitate ALL the people to come together as "We the People," achieve breakthrough progress on society's biggest problems and in the process, spark a new System of "Wise Democracy" 


​Wouldn't it be great ... ... if we (just a few of us) could spark a new conversation into being where “all” the people would work together ...
  • To face today's biggest problems and co-create shared perspectives on what is the truth, what we want, and the best strategy going forward?
  • To achieve breakthrough solutions to the really big impossible-seeming problems like partisan gridlock, climate change, poverty, etc.?
  • To provide wise leadership to elected officials, corporations, philanthropies, NGO's and the culture?
  • To establish a new System of "Wise Democracy" that brings improvements to each person ... e.g. less stress, increased equity, freedom, healing, consciousness, empowerment and meaning?
  • To restructure our sub-systems like Healthcare, Education, Taxes, etc. toward serving the Public Interest (vs. Special Interests)?
  • and more!
The Wisdom Council Process is a social innovation that can be used to achieve these results at each level of society.

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 e.g. 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", face the big impossible-seeming problems and determine 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 Solving Global Problems.
  2. National society  (i.e. The United States)  ... The founders of the United States designed a constitutional republic, a system with greater freedom than autocracy and based in competition. This was a huge leap forward for the U.S. and humankind. But as we become ever more inter-dependent, our competitive system generates less win/win and more lose/lose ... and a threatened dissemble into authoritarianism. How do we preserve all the benefits of our current system, yet safely transition to greater freedom, empowerment and 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, conflicted 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".

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):
These results may seem miraculous, but they become obvious as one gains familiarity with a set of social innovations.

Social Innovations are ...

  1. Choice-creating ... is a form of thinking where groups face Monster Problems 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.
These social innovations open new doors of possibility for collective wisdom in many settings. ​

2 min video introduction to key social innovations

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Example #2 ... Austrian Wisdom Councils 

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 on  "Dynamic Facilitation," which are offered independently.
Check out "Our Story" of how these social innovations and this System-transforming strategy came about.
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