Citizens Deliberative Councils and the Wisdom Council Process ...
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Citizens Deliberative Councils—like The Citizens Assembly (or "People's Assembly"), the Citizens Jury and the Deliberative Poll--can spark greater citizen involvement and better quality policy. The "Wisdom Council Process" orients toward a quality of thinking different than deliberation to achieve these results as a byproduct. Instead, the Wisdom Council Process facilitates the citizenry to face and solve the underlying problem. Even more, when the process is ongoing it provides a structural change to the system by bringing the people together as a powerful new entity: "We the People."
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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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