Episode 30 A scientific perspective on deliberation with Chris Forman
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Release Date: 09/29/2020
Episode 44 Deliberation around the world with Claudia Chwalisz
Facilitating Public Deliberations
As we draw this podcast series to a close, it’s fitting to take a global perspective on public deliberation with Claudia Chwalisz who leads the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation. Claudia is co-authoring a number of influential reports, convening a global network and maintaining an online digest, Participo.
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Episode 43 Reflections from a participant with Bobbi Allan
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Bobbi Allan was randomly selected for a public deliberation in early 2018. Coincidentally, she has a background as a facilitator so can offer an unusual perspective as she describes the residual effect of a deliberative experience.
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Episode 42 Deliberation and disability with Rhiann MacLean and Max Hardy
Facilitating Public Deliberations
This conversation is with Rhiann McLean (in Scotland) and Max Hardy (in Australia). Both are dedicated to amplifying the voices of people with disability—through research and public deliberations.”
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Episode 41 Online deliberation through Common Ground for Action with Kara Dillard
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Kara Dillard is an Assistant Professor at James Madison University in the US. She is also the operations specialist for Common Ground for Action (CGA), an online variant of National Issues Forum (NIF).
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Episode 40 Reflecting on deliberation and valuable techniques with Kath Fisher
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Dr Kath Fisher is an extremely experienced professional facilitator. She is also an academic at Southern Cross University (Lismore, Australia). In this episode, Kath shares some of her journey and offers a number of useful techniques that she uses routinely in public deliberations.
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Episode 39 Tools and techniques with Abbie Jeffs
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Abbie Jeffs has a background in urban planning and public policy but was an excellent facilitator in a successful consultancy, Straight-Talk, for many years. She’s now working for a public sector organisation—a loss for the field of public deliberation—although Abbie remains a strong advocate. She has much wisdom to impart in this episode and several terrific tools.
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Episode 38 Tools and techniques with Lucy Cole Edelstein
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Lucy Cole-Edelstein has over 30 years’ experience as an engagement practitioner, as a facilitator and process designer. She established and ran a successful consultancy, Straight-Talk, for some of those years and later sold her company to RPS with whom she now works.
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Episode 37 Feedback Frames for deliberative processes with Jason Diceman
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Jason Diceman is an experienced facilitator based in Toronto, Canada. He created a very useful tool, Feedback Frames (previously in the form of Idea Rating Sheets and, earlier, Dotmocracy templates).
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Episode 36 Deliberative tools and techniques with MosaicLab
Facilitating Public Deliberations
This is a conversation with Nicole Hunter, Keith Greaves and Kimbra White, the founders of MosaicLab. It covers what happens in the room with a face-to-face long-form deliberation when MosaicLab facilitators are at work.
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Episode 35 The emotional work of deliberation with Rosa Zubizarreta
Facilitating Public Deliberations
Rosa Zubizarreta is an American group facilitation practitioner and theorist and the founder of DiaPraxis. This episode is a companion piece with a previous episode that featured Jim Rough, the original designer of Dynamic Facilitation and Wisdom Councils. In the conversation with Rosa, the focus is on relational facilitation: attending to the emotional work of deliberation to order to enable a group to fully realise its goals.
info_outlineDr Chris Foreman graduated in 1999 with a Masters in theoretical physics from Edinburgh University. He spent four years doing defence research in the UK, first with DERA and then QinetiQ in satellite communications before returning to education in Cambridge in 2004 to complete a Masters in Nanotechnology and a PhD in Protein Engineering at Cambridge University UK graduating in 2010.
He took two postdocs - one in bio-inspired manufacturing and one in computational simulations of proteins. He moved to the US for a research position at Northwestern University in 2016 and currently he researches how to build computers out of chemicals with a view to changing the way that we manufacture materials to be more like biology.
In 2015, during his second postdoc, he became local area co-ordinator for 38 Degrees in Cambridge and organised and facilitated many public seminars, injecting scientific reasoning into helping locals discuss topics of interest to them.
On transferring to the US he became a Fellow of the RSA and in that capacity is the director of Deliberation Gateway—a national RSA-US network supporting the conversion of the US democracy to deliberative democracy. He is also on the co-ordination committee of Democracy Without Elections—a new grassroots organisation that is the US off-shoot of the Sortition Foundation, and he is the founder of Community Deliberation Network—a local society at Northwestern University which promotes and teaches the proper use of deliberation.
He has recently co-authored a book entitled Brave Green World which is published by MIT Press and will be available in March 2021.
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