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SCC Covid
Dynamic Facilitation Online #DFO
Took place May 30 to June 1st 2020
Special Note on Extraordinary Time and Circumstance
Special Note on Extraordinary Time and Circumstance
The first morning of this Shelter-in-Place Citizens Council, May 30, came hard on the heels of George Floyd viral video; that graphic travesty arrived with us, into the opening check-in, in all its raw horror.
The first morning of this Shelter-in-Place Citizens Council, May 30, came hard on the heels of George Floyd viral video; that graphic travesty arrived with us, into the opening check-in, in all its raw horror.
And just one month later, as we come to the bookend of the Citizens Council model; to deliver to the broader community in the context of a World Cafe what emerged in our three days together, we are arriving in and from the swirling, stunning narrative of our Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller killed by Santa Cruz County Ben Lomond resident USAF Sgt. Steven Carrillo.
And just one month later, as we come to the bookend of the Citizens Council model; to deliver to the broader community in the context of a World Cafe what emerged in our three days together, we are arriving in and from the swirling, stunning narrative of our Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller killed by Santa Cruz County Ben Lomond resident USAF Sgt. Steven Carrillo.
We are filled with questions. We are ~We the People~ "...that a government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from this earth." Gettysberg Address
"Questions unite us, answers divide us..."
"Questions unite us, answers divide us..."
Original touchstone question
{from the now past history vantage point of May 2020 Shelter-in-Place}:
Original touchstone question
{from the now past history vantage point of May 2020 Shelter-in-Place}:
How might we best emerge from this unprecedented Covid societal experience in better shape than we went in?
How might we best emerge from this unprecedented Covid societal experience in better shape than we went in?
A "We the People" check-in
A "We the People" check-in
3 days leads into the 'harvest'
3 days leads into the 'harvest'
Stepping in
Stepping in
E Pluribus Unum ~ Out of the Many, One..
Staying the course
Staying the course
Follow the energy ~ yields surprising shifts & breakthroughs in thinking..
Emerging with a story to tell
The Harvest is the story of the Council; where they started, where they went, how they got there.. And includes the "Of Courses"; what the whole Council resonates with
The Harvest is the story of the Council; where they started, where they went, how they got there.. And includes the "Of Courses"; what the whole Council resonates with
A facilitated 'Choice-Creating' conversation;
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synthesizing the diverse perspectives
and creative thinking of our community
A facilitated 'Choice-Creating' conversation;
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synthesizing the diverse perspectives
and creative thinking of our community
DYNAMIC FACILITATION
"It's a tabula rasa, a blank slate; it works every time... not sometimes sorta maybe...If you run the model it works every time."
~the ever new and renewing constellation of We the People~
"The Earth belongs in usufruct to the living generation." Thomas Jefferson
Core crew
Core crew
Golnaz Mofidi
Cabrillo graduate
Golnaz Mofidi
Cabrillo graduate
...And welcoming back
Camilla & son Oisin
{both of whom served on the inaugural SCC Wisdom Council}
Camilla & son Oisin
{both of whom served on the inaugural SCC Wisdom Council}
A Shelter-in-Place participatory democracy online/remote experiment
made possible by the generosity of everybody involved!
A Shelter-in-Place participatory democracy online/remote experiment
made possible by the generosity of everybody involved!
Covid 2020 Shelter-in-Place archival
Covid 2020 Shelter-in-Place archival
Wise Democracy
Wise Democracy
Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County
A 2020 collaborative endeavor during Covid:
A 2020 collaborative endeavor during Covid:
Change That Matters (London, UK)
Change That Matters (London, UK)
Center for Wise Democracy (Port Townsend, WA)
Center for Wise Democracy (Port Townsend, WA)
It's Our Home (Santa Cruz, CA)
It's Our Home (Santa Cruz, CA)
Covid 2020 Citizens Council #DFO
Covid 2020 Citizens Council #DFO
{components of}:
{components of}:
Check out the Council GALLERY page!!
Our 3 artists who captured what they heard from the Council each in their own way ( 3 days of silent witness yields treasures)
Zoom Resonance Group/ World Cafe
Check out the Council GALLERY page!!
Our 3 artists who captured what they heard from the Council each in their own way ( 3 days of silent witness yields treasures)
Zoom Resonance Group/ World Cafe
Took place SATURDAY JUNE 27, 10-1 pm
Took place SATURDAY JUNE 27, 10-1 pm
We will be uploading those results in the next couple weeks. Check the Time Out page for updates (right now you can go there to read the Council Story/Narrative as well as the Council "Of Courses").
Add to the archive what Shelter-in-Place has yielded for you, including unexpected, surprising, hard, good, tender, awful, awe-full, magical, or life-changing in any shape or form, we welcome that input also.
Add to the archive what Shelter-in-Place has yielded for you, including unexpected, surprising, hard, good, tender, awful, awe-full, magical, or life-changing in any shape or form, we welcome that input also.
Wise Democracy Glossary
Wise Democracy Glossary
#DF Dynamic Facilitation
#DFO Dynamic Facilitation Online
#WC Wisdom Council Process
#CC Choice-Creating
#GWC Global Wisdom Council
#DF Dynamic Facilitation
#DFO Dynamic Facilitation Online
#WC Wisdom Council Process
#CC Choice-Creating
#GWC Global Wisdom Council
Dynamic Facilitation is the operating system of [Citizens] Wisdom Council.
Dynamic Facilitation is the operating system of [Citizens] Wisdom Council.
A 'Wisdom Council' can be implemented for any large system, be it organization or school, or company, and/or for democracy; for regional; city or county, for state or national or global.
This 2020 Covid #DFO was not technically a "Wisdom Council" since we were unable, despite our best efforts, to draw an entirely random selection (the definition of a Citizens Wisdom Council);
Randomly selected from the voter rolls and from all zip codes in the county, cold-calling, we got two confirmed and three maybes, which ultimately turned into two confirmed, one of which got pulled away. We therefore went forward by adding in other voices suggested by county residents who know this model (so, drawing in other, once removed SCC residents) and, ultimately, since all were County residents, welcoming input from the artists at designated junctures if they were bursting to say something based on what they were hearing from the Council. For all these reasons, this Covid 2020 Citizens Council is a hybrid of the Wisdom Council model and therefore categorized as a "Citizens Insight Council #DFO"; a citizens council dynamically facilitated online, akin to the De Anza January '2020 Facilitated Session on Homelessness Solutions'
"When the book Society’s Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People was published in 2002 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 a 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."
"Our problem isn't the unanswered questions but the unquestioned answers."
Heard in the recent forum of Pachamama Alliance & Black Lives Matter
"Our problem isn't the unanswered questions but the unquestioned answers."
Heard in the recent forum of Pachamama Alliance & Black Lives Matter
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