I have almost completed recruiting panelists for my new project on Human Migration. All of the panelists I have recruited are enthusiastic about the project. But I am still looking for one or two more. I have been asked to… Read More »
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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 »
Possibilities as Catalysts to Discussion
Within the Interactivity Foundation, and as part of our continuing and internal development, we frequently discuss how to make our conceptual possibilities more “useful” for public discussion. And related to that ongoing discussion, we’ve had a number of recent postings… Read More »
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What’s a Conceptual Policy Possibility?
Interactivity Foundation Project Discussions aim at generating contrasting conceptual policy possibilities with the hopes of expanding and enriching public thinking about a complex area of social and political concern. You might think of a “policy” as providing a sort of… Read More »
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There are policy discussions and then there are policy discussions
Election time is probably the time when people hear and talk about policy the most. So you may feel that you have already heard way too much about policy debates in recent months. And you may feel—just like me—completely disgusted… Read More »
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A Touch of Humility
Notwithstanding my desires and self-delusions to the contrary, I’m not always right. My wife, children, and co-workers can and will—with only minor prompting—attest to this all too obvious fact. For further proof one need only review any of my failed… 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 »
“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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