This is a living catalogue hundreds of innovative practices, ideas, experiments, organizations, people, and other resources useful for building wiser democracies that work for all. "Wiser democracies" are systems of politics and governance, of citizenship and activism, which creatively engage more of our human capacities — not only to better address today's pressing social and environmental problems, but to help us build more desirable futures for ourselves and all the generations after us.
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1 2 3 ... 20 next » (58)Dynamic Facilitation ()When groups are wrestling with difficult problems, they often stumble onto truly innovative solutions together if they're allowed to follow their own interests and energy.
Asset-Based Community Development Institute ()Communities can grow stronger by exploring and organizing all the gifts that citizens and associations (formal and informal) can bring to their community life, rather than by treating people as problems and clients.
Demosophia ()The complexity of modern problems requires that we move from "the power of the people" -- which is the Greek meaning of the word democracy -- to the "wisdom of the people", or demosophia.
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Tom: "food for thought re DI as a potential tribe"
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html