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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 policy decisions. The "Wisdom Council Process" looks a lot like one of these mini-public type Councils. But it is designed to be a structural change to the underlying System by which to facilitate a new form of governance ... "Wise Democracy" ... into being. It relies on a different quality of thinking than "deliberation," what we call "Choice-creating,"
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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. Jim describes how the Wisdom Council Process is distinct from "Deliberative Democracy".
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