practices

These are direct reproductions on 20071207 from http://processarts.wagn.org/wagn/Participatory_Processes and http://processarts.wagn.org/wagn/Core_Dialogue_Practices and are not original to this site.

ParticipatoryPractices are any approaches in which people participate in [|Conversation], [|Dialogue], [|Deliberation], [|Reflection], [|Organization Development], [|Group Process], [|Community Renewal], [|Collective Intelligence](external link - internal link here), [|Democracy], etc. We will focus on - but not limit ourselves to - practices which engage people together (or with institutions) to benefit themselves collectively or on behalf of a larger group that they are part of.

This particular page will constitute an index of such practices. We will list the names of participatory practices here as Wiki links, so that each one will have its own page(s) that can be developed starting from this page.

For now, I suggest we list the participatory practices in alphabetical order. Later we may want to develop categories for them. As this develops, I and others may want to do some [|Participatory Practices Analysis] such as [|Comparing Practices] or exploring some [|Underlying Dynamics Of Process] (which can be done off of the very links in this sentence, and others like them). With such understandings we may be better equipped to design [|Multi Approach Programs].

The initial list below includes all the items on the [|Citizens Science Toolbox] from which descriptions of each practice can be cut and pasted into the pages created below. We're all encouraged to add further practices below, but for now (until we've transferred all the data from the [|Citizens Science Toolbox]), let's put an asterisk after each practice that is NOT part of that toolbox. I have added all the practices I know about which I have ready access to at least some descriptive material (yikes! that looks like about 185 of them)...

-- [|Tom Atlee]

Participatory Practices...
[|Active Listening] *

[|Appreciative Inquiry] *

[|Area Neighborhood Forum] *

[|Arbitration] *

[|Arts Based Civic Dialogue] *

[|Asset Based Community Development] *

[|Backcasting]

[|Bohm Dialogue] *

[|Brainstorming]

[|Briefing]

[|Candidate Evaluation Panel] *

[|Chime And Stone] *

[|Choice Creating] *

[|Choice Work] *

[|Citizen Advisory Committee] *

[|Citizen Committee]

[|Citizen Consensus Council] *

[|Citizen Deliberative Council] *

[|Citizen Election Forum] *

[|Citizen Initiative Review] *

[|Citizen Jury]

[|Citizen Panel] *

[|Citizen Reflective Council] *

[|Citizen Survey Panel] *

[|Civic Journalism]

[|Collaborative Inquiry] *

[|Collaborative Learning] *

[|Collaborative Watershed Management] *

[|Commons Cafe] *

[|Community Asset Inventory] *

[|Community Consultation Committee] *

[|Community Fair]

[|Community Indicator]

[|Community Issues Group] *

[|Community Planning] *

[|Community Viz] *

[|Compassionate Listening] *

[|Conference]

[|Conference Model] *

[|Conflict Transformation] *

[|Conflict Work]

[|Consensus Building] *

[|Consensus Building Exercise] *

[|Consensus Conference]

[|Consensus Organizing] *

[|Consensus Participation] *

[|Consensus Process] *

[|Conversation Cafe] *

Council Process (see [|Talking Circle]) *

[|Deliberation] *

[|Deliberative Dialogue] *

[|Deliberative Focus Group] *

[|Deliberative Inclusionary Process] *

[|Deliberative Opinion Poll] (aka [|Deliberative Polling])

[|Delphi Study]

[|Design Charrette]

[|Despair And Empowerment Work] *

[|Dialogue] *

[|Dialogue Mapping] *

[|Display Or Exhibit]

[|Dutch Study Group] *

[|Dynamic Facilitation] *

[|Electronic Democracy]

[|Enlightened Communication] *

[|Environmental Justice Collaborative Model] *

[|Expert Panel]

[|Facilitation] *

[|Fast Cycle Full Participation] *

[|Field Trip]

[|Fish Bowl]

[|Flower Diagram Workshop] *

[|Focus Group]

[|Future Search]

[|Gemba Kaizen] *

[|Gestures Of Conversational Presence] *

[|Group Awareness Exercise] *

[|Group Silence] *

[|Group Ware] *

[|Holistic Management] *

[|Ho OPono Pono] (ho'o p'ono p'ono) *

Human Needs Analysis (see [|Analytical Problem Solving]) *

[|Information Contact]

[|Information Hotline]

[|Information Repository]

[|Innovative Development] *

[|Integrative Conversation]

[|Interactive Strategic Planning] *

[|Interactive Television]

[|Interactive Video Display Kiosk]

[|Intergroup Dialogue] *

[|Intragroup Dialogue] *

[|Issue Forum] *

[|Key Stakeholder Interview]

[|Kitchen Table Discussion]

[|Knowledge Mapping] *

[|Large Group Intervention] *

[|Learning Circle] *

Listening Circle (see [|Talking Circle]) *

[|Listening Project] *

[|Macleans Panel] *

[|Media Release]

[|Mediation]

[|Multi Criteria Mapping] *

[|Multi Objective Decision Support System] (MODSS)

[|Multiple Viewpoint Drama] *

[|National Issues Forum] *

[|Negotiation] *

[|Neighborhood Policy Jury] *

[|Newspaper Insert]

[|Nominal Group]

[|Nonviolent Communication] *

[|Open Forum] *

[|Open House] (aka Open Days or Drop-In Centers)

[|Open Question Circle] *

[|Open Sentences Practice] *

[|Open Space Technology]

[|Organization Workshop] *

[|Parent Jury] *

[|Participant Observation]

[|Participative Design Workshop] *

[|Participatory Budgeting] *

[|Participatory Idealized Design] *

[|Participatory Research] *

[|Participatory Rural Appraisal] (aka [|Participatory Research And Action]) (PRA) *

[|Penny For Your Thoughts] *

[|Photo Voice]

[|Planning Cell] *

[|Planning For Real]

[|Popcorn] *

[|Popular Education] *

[|Poster Competition]

[|Preferred Futuring][TM] *

[|Printed Information]

[|Prioritization Matrix]

[|Process Content Outline] *

[|Process Worldwork] *

[|Psycho Drama] *

[|Public Conversation]

[|Public Hearing] *

[|Public Involvement Volunteer]

[|Public Meeting]

[|Quaker Meeting For Business] *

[|Questionnaire]

[|Random Selection] *

[|Rapid Rural Appraisal] *

[|Real Time Strategic Change][SM] *

[|Real Time Delayed Time Synergy] *

[|Regional Civic Learning And Design Center] *

[|Regulatory Negotiation] *

[|Residents Feedback Panel] *

[|Restorative Justice] *

[|Roleplaying]

[|Roundtable] *

[|Salon] *

[|Samoan Circle]

[|Scenario Testing]

[|Scenario Work] *

[|Search Conference]

[|Service Learning] *

[|Service User Forum] *

[|Shop Front]

[|Simulation Electronically Generated]

[|Simu Real] *

[|Sketch Interview]

[|Snowball Sampling]

[|Socrates Cafe] *

[|Solicitation Of Comments] *

[|Speakouts]

[|Stakeholder Analysis]

[|Stakeholder Decision Analysis] *

[|State Of Grace Document] *

[|Story Circle] *

[|Strategic Forum][TM] *

[|Strategic Questioning] *

[|Structured Value Referenda] *

[|Study Circles]

[|Submissions]

[|Survey]

[|Sustained Dialogue] *

[|Symbolic Dialogue] *

[|Talking Circle] *

Talking Stick Circle (see [|Talking Circle]) *

[|Tavistock] *

[|Technical Assistance]

[|Technical Reports And Discussion Paper]

[|Technology Of Participation][TM] *

[|Telephone Tree]

[|Tele Vote] *

TGroup *

[|Think Like A Genius] *

[|Transformative Mediation] *

[|Twenty First Century Town Meeting] *

[|Varresbecker Bach Participatory Process] *

[|Visioning]

Watershed Management Council (see [|Collaborative Watershed Management]) *

[|Web Lab Small Group Dialogue] *

[|Whole Scale Change] (whole scale is [TM]) *

[|Whole Systems Approach] [SM] *

[|Widening Circles Exercise] *

[|Wiki Wiki] *

[|Wisdom Council] *

[|Workshop]

[|World Cafe] * [|! �456�]

and from: http://processarts.wagn.org/wagn/Core_Dialogue_Practices

What are the simple (perhaps profoundly so) practices that nearly anyone in the field of dialogue and deliberation needs to understand, use, and promote in order to be successful? These are seldom particular methodologies (e.g. [|Open Space], [|Bohmian Dialogue], etc.), but are the "building blocks" of good communication, group process, [|facilitation], etc. Let us here explore what we think these are, and expand our understanding of them.

[|Active Listening] - This includes paying attention to what people say, and to the underlying emotional and thematic subtexts of what they say. Often it includes [|Reflective Listening] or [|Mirroring] in which the listener says back to the speaker what the listener heard - both the explicit and the implicit (subtext) meaning. This helps the speaker feel heard and, once they feel heard, they let down their barriers and aggressiveness and can more join in the flow of inquiry and co-creativity.

[|Develop Trust] - Participants must feel safe in order to contribute to the group.

[|Go Meta] - Try to notice when there is something important happening - //about// the dynamics in the moment, not totally unrelated - that the group might benefit from attending to.

[|Be Clear About Intention] - Be clear in yourself, hold the highest good as outcome, and do solid planning in order to reach specific goals.

[|Follow The Energy] - Tune in to what is alive for participants; try to anticipate what the energy curve is likely to be to do good planning ahead, but be open to making shifts in the moment if needed.

Be fully Present - Cultivate awareness of what is. . ..

[|Suspend Assumptions] - to use Bohm's term. This doesn't mean giving up assumptions, but rather suspending them in the open so all can see them. This is a valuable way to understand what is behind a set of words and leads to deeper understanding and shared inquiry.

[|Tell The Truth] with full compassion.

[|Speak From Your Experience] - Ask permission before giving feedback. Own our experience.

[|Invite Inquiry] - as opposed to requesting answers.

The problem with [|Trying To Educate People]

This is from: https://www3.secure.griffith.edu.au/03/toolbox/alpha_tool_list.php

A list of participatory tools

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 * 1.** Printed information
 * 2.** Open space technology
 * 3.** Planning4real
 * 4.** MODSS Multi-objective Decision Making Support
 * 5.** Questionnaires and responses
 * 6.** Participant observation
 * 7.** Role plays
 * 8.** Samoan circles
 * 9.** Scenario testing
 * 10.** Speakouts
 * 11.** Study circles
 * 12.** Shopfront
 * 13.** Search conference
 * 14.** Sketch interviews
 * 15.** Snowball sampling
 * 16.** Submissions
 * 17.** Surveys
 * 18.** Technical assistance
 * 19.** Technical reports and Discussion Papers
 * 20.** Information repository
 * 21.** Interactive Video Display Kiosks
 * 22.** Simulation (electronically generated)
 * 23.** Visioning
 * 24.** Web sites
 * 25.** Workshops
 * 26.** Backcasting
 * 27.** Stakeholder analysis
 * 28.** Poster competitions
 * 29.** Telephone trees
 * 30.** Brainstorming
 * 31.** Briefings
 * 32.** Citizen committees
 * 33.** Citizen juries
 * 34.** Civic journalism
 * 35.** Consensus conference
 * 36.** Conference
 * 37.** Community indicator
 * 38.** Displays and exhibits
 * 39.** Design charrettes
 * 40.** Expert panel
 * 41.** Deliberative opinion polls
 * 42.** Focus groups
 * 43.** Field trips
 * 44.** Delphi study
 * 45.** Fishbowl
 * 46.** Interactive TV
 * 47.** Future search conference
 * 48.** Community fairs
 * 49.** Electronic democracy
 * 50.** Key stakeholder interviews
 * 51.** Information contacts
 * 52.** Kitchen table discussion
 * 53.** Information hotline
 * 54.** Mediation and Negotiation
 * 55.** Open House (or Open days and Drop-In Centres)
 * 56.** Nominal Group
 * 57.** Media releases
 * 58.** Newspaper Inserts
 * 59.** Photovoice
 * 60.** Public conversation
 * 61.** Public involvement volunteers
 * 62.** Public meeting
 * 63.** Prioritisation matrix