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2012/10/102012/10/10

Tom Atlee: Public Wisdom Practical Links

21st Century Town Meetings Appreciative Inquiry Argument Mapping Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) bCisiveOnline Canada Maclean experiment charrette choice-creating citizen consensus councils (CCCs) citizen deliberative councils (CDCs) citizen councilor forums citizen panels [By Popular Demand] citizen reflective councils Citizens’ Assembly citizens juries civic journalism Community-Based Watershed Management Councils community quality of life indicators Commons Cafés …

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2012/10/102012/10/10

Tom Atlee: Public Wisdom Suggested Reading

* Titles marked with an asterisk are particularly important to this topic. Baldwin, Christina, Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture (Bantam, 1998) Briggs, John and F. David Peat, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change (Harper Perennial, 2000) Briskin, Alan, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan, and John Ott, The …

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2012/10/03

Graphic: Tom Atlee’s Public Wisdom Circles

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2012/10/032012/10/03

Tom Atlee: Collective Thinking About Public Affairs

Collective thinking about public affairs (NOTE: In this essay I intentionally subsume the thinking processes of official decision-makers into the thinking processes of the citizenry as a whole. I realize that official decision-makers can and do make decisions independently of the will of the people, unless that public will is united and organized. But elite …

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2012/09/272012/09/27

Tom Atlee: Bitterness Dances with Hope – Focusing On the Essence

Bitterness dances with Hope Dear friends, I like this article by Rebecca Solnit (who’s writing I’m coming to love more and more) not because it comes from “the left” but because it calls for sanity and decency. It acknowledges the overriding fact that our quasi-democratic system is itself deeply flawed in its design and corrupted …

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2012/09/012012/09/01

Tom Atlee: Non-Violent Reformulation of Political Power

We need to reformulate political power now! by Tom Atlee We need to reformulate political power. We need to do it now and we need to focus on it as central to our work on every issue, every vision, every outrage and hope. Our goal in reformulating political power must be to move from governance …

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2012/08/182012/08/18

Tom Atlee: Letter to a Peace Activist — CHANGE the Game!

Dear friends, Letter to a Peace Activist This is an excerpt from my recent response to an activist who felt that stopping an attack on Iran was the most important issue we faced, given the horrendous likely consequences of such an attack on Middle East populations and on the global economy. A variation of this …

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