Opportunities for discussion of IF materials present themselves in a variety of settings that are not directly organized by IF. Organizations are often looking for public interest programming and are accustomed to scheduling presentations at luncheons, conferences, and in-service training… Read More »
Author Archives: Dennis Boyer
“Going Public” and Citizen Discussion of IF Reports—Part Two
Part One of this perspective focused on some issues relating to the scale of our reports (meta or more bounded), their relation to specific deliberative constituencies (tailoring or meeting demand), timing as a matter of discussion relevance, and capitalizing on… Read More »
“Going Public” and Citizen Discussion of IF Reports—Part One
IF’s initial developmental plans for its policy possibility reports included the loosely described phase of “going public”. This left the door open to a number of potential approaches to getting the reports themselves and the underlying deliberative process before the… Read More »
Deliberative Practitioners at the Eye of the Storm
Wisconsin’s ongoing protests provide many interesting lessons for a former advocate-turned deliberative practitioner. How does a facilitator/alternative dispute resolution professional come to find himself carrying a sign and singing songs of solidarity? Was I, as some friends suggested, a retired… Read More »
“Chipping-In” as a Key to Developmental Citizen Discussion
A recently concluded “developmental” discussion of energy possibilities reinforced many of the lessons learned about the benefits of repeat participation of those familiar with IF process and materials. That same discussion series also reinforced the developmental benefit of bringing “fresh… Read More »
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Building a “Bench” for Deliberative Discussion
No, this is not a “how to” on furniture design. It is more in the spirit of how to cross-recruit for both IF project panel discussions and citizen discussions of IF reports (though much of this would work in deliberative… Read More »
Some Initial Thoughts on Research Questions
IF’s ongoing experience with public discussion has provided us with many lessons learned about what works for our facilitators and our participants in discussing conceptual policy possibilities.
As practitioners in the deliberative field, these lessons learned inform our facilitative instincts… Read More »
Reaching the Open Minds
One of the things I learned from being a collaborative partner in the application of IF process to a series of independent policy explorations of contentious subject matter is that it is difficult to broach conceptual possibilities when so many… Read More »
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Citizen Discussion as a Developmental Tool for IF Reports
One of the ideas that has been recently been under discussion within IF is the possibility that citizen or public discussions of the approaches developed within IF sanctuary projects (that are ultimately published as reports) could be used to further… Read More »
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“Going Public” with IF Reports: A Pre-Project Perspective
The Fellows’ recent discussion of “going public” issues again reminded us of the many ways in which we can get our “product” and process out into circulation in the broader governance conversation. We have something to offer and it makes… Read More »
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