@brainonloan is the Dynamic Facilitation facilitator
in service to the constellation of people being dynamically facilitated...
In service to the ones who are grappling with the seemingly impossible-to-solve issue.
#JimRough#wisedemocracy
"Fact is that Democracy as we know it has great difficulty coping with a Society that is becoming more and more diverse, & this situation requires new processes and the citizens council is one of them.."
—former director, Office of Future-related Issues,
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#DynamicFacilitation
•"I've never before experienced a facilitator, being willing to engage so dynamically, with the issues that hold us back.."
•"We were so excited and focused. It was really noticeable, how you took us so seriously, how you wanted to know exactly....
“Most people experience #politics as an adversarial process. Many people have never had an experience of being in a creative political conversation, where people seek win/win solutions, that may go beyond the ideas offered by politicians...
Society's Breakthrough ... is when we apply the #DF in the Wisdom Council Process #WCP to society itself, global or national. Here's how a society can transform itself toward collective consciousness — i.e. economics, governance and civic life.
wisedemocracy.org/societys-b…
ALT Society’s Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People was published in 2002. At the time we thought a U.S. Constitutional Amendment was required to spark the transformation of society. Since then, experiments with the Wisdom Council Process have shown that it works by itself. 1) The Wisdom Council Process is powerful enough to create a legitimate, powerful "We the People". 2) The magic sauce that drives the transformation isn't "We the People" of old, but rather quality of conversation: Choice-creating. 3) The resulting change is far greater even than the outrageously positive prospects outlined in Society's Breakthrough. See the chart describing how our understandings of Society’s Breakthrough have changed.
3/3 ..This alone makes #DF incredibly useful in a pluralistic democracy. Add to that its power to metabolize conflict into useful insights and to engender co-creativity among diverse people, and it’s a real treasure.“
Tom Atlee, Co-Intelligence Institute on #dynamicfacilitation
ALT Dynamic Facilitation [DF] is a way of facilitating people to address and solve difficult issues, even those that seem impossible to solve. The DF'er helps people face critical issues and then helps them to be creative in addressing them. Rather than asking participants to hold back their emotions, stay on the agenda, abide by guidelines, follow a step-by-step process..., the DF'er encourages people to just speak. Four basic charts are used: Solutions, Concerns, Data, and Problem-statements. The charts help the DF'er frame the conversation as a creative quest to solve the issue. This allows people to trust their natural instincts more and appreciate what is emerging from self and others.
Using the charts the DF'er establishes a "zone of thinking and talking" that is "choice-creating," where shifts and breakthroughs are normal and where shared conclusions emerge.
https://www.wisedemocracy.org/2-dynamic-facilitation.html
2/3They can be difficult people and the facilitator makes sure (a) that they don’t get shut down because of that, (b) that the people they target — and the group as a whole—continue to feel safe and (c) that whatever gift they bring gets heard and made available to the group mind
"Part of why I love Dynamic Facilitation (DF) so much is that it works with people AS THEY ARE. It doesn’t require that they buy into a set of rules about how they’re going to talk together..."