In a California sawmill in the early 1980s, Jim Rough developed "Dynamic Facilitation". This "group process" has now been taught in seminars all over the world and forms the basis for the "Wisdom Council Process", a new way to spark collective wisdom in large systems of people. Wisdom Councils have been used in multiple countries and are now embedded in two Austrian states, Voralberg and Salzburg. This podcast episode explores Dynamic Facilitation, Wisdom Councils, and two styles of thinking: "deliberation" and "choice-creating".

LINKS

Center for Wise Democracy

Dynamic Facilitation website

Conversation between Ned Crosby (originator of Citizens' Juries and Jim Rough originator of Wisdom Councils)

Facilitating Inclusion: Australian Wisdom Councils as Democratic Innovation between Consensus and Diversity, Hans Asenbaum.

Austrian Wisdom Councils

Music acknowledgement.