Thank you for sharing this energising and wonderful description of a Citizens’ Assembly process. I yearn for the day when this is common practice.
Reading the newsletter, I found there to be many similarities with Nora Bateson's 'Warm Data Labs'. A Warm Data Lab is a group process, "which illustrate[s] interdependency and generate[s] understandings of systemic patterns for people with no previous exposure to systems theory. As a tool for revealing relationships that are integral and woven into the complex fabric of the issues we are working on, the Warm Data Lab process allows participants to see new patterns, new causations, and to respond to them with a much broader comprehension. In this way, the Warm Data Lab enables new societal responses to complex challenges."
Bringing 'ordinary' people together to deliberate and share from their life experiences, without preconceived agendas or biases, and to embrace confusion, these are powerful practices.
A concern is that leader of governing council "steps up" with "citizens that they should rein in their instinct to become full-on experts themselves" can be read as you are not being ignorant enough for our predetermined aims.
I like to read about the testimonies of facilitators themselves. It's great to see them getting on board
Thank you for sharing this energising and wonderful description of a Citizens’ Assembly process. I yearn for the day when this is common practice.
Reading the newsletter, I found there to be many similarities with Nora Bateson's 'Warm Data Labs'. A Warm Data Lab is a group process, "which illustrate[s] interdependency and generate[s] understandings of systemic patterns for people with no previous exposure to systems theory. As a tool for revealing relationships that are integral and woven into the complex fabric of the issues we are working on, the Warm Data Lab process allows participants to see new patterns, new causations, and to respond to them with a much broader comprehension. In this way, the Warm Data Lab enables new societal responses to complex challenges."
Bringing 'ordinary' people together to deliberate and share from their life experiences, without preconceived agendas or biases, and to embrace confusion, these are powerful practices.
A concern is that leader of governing council "steps up" with "citizens that they should rein in their instinct to become full-on experts themselves" can be read as you are not being ignorant enough for our predetermined aims.