from NCDD: help develop principles to be submitted to Obama administration
douglas germann
76066.515 at compuserve.com
Wed Feb 25 17:53:10 PST 2009
Hi all space dancers--
Thought you might want to be aware of this effort.
:- Doug.
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From: Sandy Heierbacher <sandy at THATAWAY.ORG>
Reply-To: Sandy Heierbacher <sandy at THATAWAY.ORG>
To: NCDD-DISCUSSION at LISTS.THATAWAY.ORG
Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] help develop principles to be submitted to
Obama administration
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:09:28 -0500
Hi, everyone! Sorry if you get this message twice; I wanted to be
sure all NCDDers receive this. Feel free to forward this message to
other related networks you're involved in.
We are facing an unprecedented opportunity in the fields of public
engagement, conflict resolution and collaboration. President Obama has
demonstrated his commitment to participation, transparency and
openness in his administration in numerous ways we've all taken note of.
There are a number of established associations and organizations in
the U.S. that unite professionals and promote the practice and
principles of consensus, dialogue, participation, collaboration,
conflict resolution and other means of achieving largely the same end.
We suspect that many of these groups will try to communicate with the
administration about how to best move forward, but we are concerned
about the fact that although most of us speak the same basic language
to describe this work, we tend to use many different dialects. This
could weaken each of our cases, and overwhelm members of the
administration rather than support them.
Rather than each of us contacting the administration separately with
mixed messages and various levels of success, we believe we could make
a greater impact working together. Can we collaborate or unify to
present a collective source of principles, practices, talent and
resources that this administration and nation will need in the next
four years?
As a first step, a few of us have decided to lead a transparent effort
to encourage people in our field to collectively agree (as much as
possible) on principles or standards for public engagement. We've
begun by posting a bunch of existing sets of principles on the NCDD
site in forum software that anyone can contribute and respond to.
Please join us today at http://thataway.org/2009/pep_project/ - click
on the right tab to sign up, then click on "discussions" to get back
to the main page. We ask that you:
1. Respond to the principles, articles, etc. that are posted. What do
you like about them? What do you disagree with? What would you change?
2. Add any sets of principles or criteria for public engagement you're
aware of that aren't yet posted.
3. Check back later after our smaller group has created a draft set of
principles based on your feedback and ideas. (I'll email these lists
again when it's time.)
We hope to end up with a set of principles most of you will feel
comfortable endorsing. Please help us get there!
* Tom Atlee, President of the Co-Intelligence Institute
* Stephen Buckley, CEO of U.S. Transparency
* John Godec, Board member of the International Association of
Public Participation (IAP2)
* Reynolds-Anthony Harris, Managing Director of Lyceum Patners &
Co.
* Sandy Heierbacher, Director of the National Coalition for
Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
* Steve Pyser, Editor of the International Journal of Public
Participation
* Stephanie Roy McCallum, Immediate Past President of the
International Association of Public Participation (IAP2)
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