Charts comparing ...
- Decision-making & Choice-creating ... Most people think of governance as being about collective “decision-making.” We are saying that to achieve true democracy there also needs to be whole-system “choice-creating".
- Dialog & Deliberation & Choice-creating ... Often when talking about democracy people use the terms “dialogue” and “deliberation.” But "Wise Democracy" requires choice-creating.
- Dynamic Facilitation & Traditional Facilitation ... Dynamic Facilitation can reliably evoke choice-creating. This chart describes some differences between Dynamic Facilitation and Traditional forms of facilitation.
- Citizens Assembly & Wisdom Council Process ... Here are two different citizen participation strategies for solving societal problems at large scale. The organization Extinction Rebellion, for instance, is literally fighting for action on climate change. One of their demands is that Citizens Assemblies be used. Far better (we think) is the Wisdom Council Process. And there's no need to "demand" it.
- Three Democratic Forms of Thinking ... How does a large group of people think together and make collective "decisions?" Three possible approaches are: 1) “voting” ... judging which is best; 2) consensus ... seeking consent; and 3) choice-creating ... co-creating unity.
- Three Citizen Engagement Strategies ... Three approaches for public engagement are compared. One is based in dialogue, another in deliberation, and the third in choice-creating.
- Strategies to Fix America ... People gravitate to common solution strategies. But there is one more which offers breakthrough potential.
- Seven solution strategies for climate change ... Again, people gravitate toward six common solution strategies. The seventh, setting up a global Wisdom Council Process, is essential if the others are to work.
- Society’s Breakthrough! ...2002 vs. 2025 ...In 2002 the book, "Society's Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People", was published. Since then we have gained experience with the Wisdom Council Process. Now we know it works better and easier than we could've known. Here's a chart that illustrates some of the differences between the "Society's Breakthrough" in 2002 vs. 2025
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