Comparing the Citizens Assembly and the "Wisdom Council Process" ...
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The Citizens Assembly, Citizens Jury and Deliberative Poll are forms of "Citizens Deliberative Councils". These can make our current system better, more thoughtful and deliberative. The "Wisdom Council Process" has a different focus. While it can be used to improve the existing system where citizens are more involved in clarifying the public interest, beyond the partisan battle. transcend the partisan battle, and a holistic process aimed more primarily at transforming our system. It establishes the missing "We the People" conversation (i.e. ongoing, whole-system "choice-creating" conversation) throughout the population. In the chart below we examine two different approaches to generating citizen participation: the Citizens Assembly (i.e. a popular example of Citizens Deliberative Councils) and the Wisdom Council Process.
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1) Comparing the Citizens Assembly and the Wisdom Council Process
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2) In the short video below the Wisdom Council Process is referred to as the Bürgerräte (or "Citizens Council") vs. the Citizens Assembly.
Other resources
- Episode #34 of “Facilitating Public Deliberations”, where Jim Rough is interviewed by Dr. Lyn Carson, Director of Research at the New Democracy Foundation in Australia. He describes how the Wisdom Council Process is distinct from "Deliberative Democracy".
- Corrina McFarlane describes the Wisdom Council Process vs. the Citizens Assembly process in an email
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