Jacob Coker-Dukowitz's List: Popular Education & Facilitation Resources

If you’re looking for resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement, boy have you come to the right place! Here are some of the things you can find in NCDD’s Resource Center…

A collection of simple techniques that 
help make co-operation a whole lot easier.
Does your organization aspire to practice democracy beyond simple elections?
Does one of your organization's aims include being: egalitarian, equal opportunity, boss-less, bottom-up, grass roots, member driven, to use deliberative democracy, collective responsibility, participatory management or other ideals of a flat governance structure?
If so this list of suggestions should be helpful for your goals. 

To support Purpose-driven design. Form should follow function. The most important part of any meeting planning is to get clear on why you are having the meeting. That choice drives all subsequent choices for that event.
To deepen the skills of those who serve as group process guides, leaders, hosts, and facilitators. To assist with their learning in how to do design. To help them choose among many possible processes to create something that will be the best possible fit for their situation at a given time. 

We think of Future Search in three ways—
A large group planning meeting used world-wide for 30 years;
A theory and philosophy of facilitating that anyone can apply;
A strategy for changing the world one meeting at a time.