Guides and Tools

• Public Engagement Planning Tool – Bill Rizzo, 2014
• Facilitating Public Issues: Best Practices – National Issues Forums, 2011
• Working Through Difficult Decisions – Kettering Foundation, 2011
• Naming and Framing Difficult Issues to Make Sound Decisions – Kettering Foundation, 2011
• Constructive Conversations about Challenging Times: A Guide to Community Dialogue – Public Conversations Project, 2011
• Moving Beyond Polarization: Some First Steps – Public Conversations Project, 2011
• Naming and Framing Local Issues for Public Deliberation – National Issues Forums, 2010
• From Old Conversation to New Conversation – Public Conversations Project, 2010
• A Sample Set of Proposed Agreements for One-on-One Dialogue – Public Conversations Project, 2009
• Fostering Dialogue Across Divides – Public Conversations Project, Maggie Herzig & Laura Chasin, 2006
• Eleven Ideas for Making A Hard Conversation Work – Public Conversations Project, 2004
• An Overview of PCP’s Collaborative Dialogue Process – Public Conversations Project, 2003
• International Listening Association Bibliography – International Listening Association, 2000
• Premises, Practices, and the Spirit Behind Them – Public Conversation Project, 1999
• Public Dialogue and Democracy: A Guide for the Discussion Leader – Public Conversations Project, W. Barnett Pearce, Loyola University, 1999
• PCP Dialogue Toolbox – Public Conversations Project, 1999
• Designing, Facilitating, and Following-Up Dialogues – Public Conversations Project, 1999
• Questions to Ask of Those Who Seek to Convene a Dialogue – Public Conversations Project, 1999
• Other Exercises and Questions for Mulling – Public Conversations Project, 1995
• Dialogue Fundamentals – Center for Wise Democracy, no date specified
• Comparing Dialogue, Deliberation and Choice-creating – Center for Wise Democracy, no date specified
• Facilitating Technical Workshops: 5 Steps to ‘Getting It Right’ – Consensus Building Institute, Patrick Field, no date specified

Readings

• Participatory Budgeting: Building Community Agreement Around Tough Budget Decisions – (PDF file, 143 kb, 6 pages) National Civic Review, Josh Lerner, 2011
• Clear Vision – (PDF file, 83 kb, 9 pages) National Civic Review, Mike Huggins, 2012
• Deliberative Dialogue to Expand Civic Engagement: What Kind of Talk Does Democracy Need? – (PDF file, 126 kb, 19 pages) Clearview Consulting, LLC, Martha L. McCoy and Patrick L. Scully
• Framing For Democracy: Exploring the Impacts of Adversarial and Deliberative Framing, Understanding the Longer-Term Benefits of Deliberation – (PDF file, 260 kb, 41 pages) Kettering Foundation, Alison Kadlec, Leah Sprain, Martin Carcasson, 2012
• The Promise and Problems of Online Deliberation – (PDF file, 646 kb, 50 pages) Kettering Foundation, Laura W. Black, 2011
• Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities – (PDF file, 3.1 Mb, 48 pages) Kettering Foundation, Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung, 2009
• Civil Agency and the Cult of the Expert – ( PDF file, 266 kb, 44 pages) Kettering Foundation, Harry C. Boyte, 2009
• Navigating the Power Dynamic Between Institutions and Their Communities – (PDF file, 203 kb, 24 pages) Kettering Foundation, Byron P. White, 2009
• We Have to Choose: Democracy and Deliberative Politics – (PDF file, 1.5 Mb, 56 pages) Kettering Foundation, 2008
• Public Administrators and Citizens: What Should the Relationship Be? – (PDF file, 1.4 Mb, 50 pages) Kettering Foundation, 2007
• Deliberate Dialogue – Public Conversations Project, Meenakshi Chakraverti, 2008
• An Experimental Framework for Community Democracy – Center for Wise Democracy, Richard K. Moore, 2007
• Engaging Citizens: Meeting the Challenges of Community Life – (PDF file, 1.1 Mb, 50 pages) Kettering Foundation, 2006
• Getting Beyond Polarization – Public Conversations Project, Richard Chasin, State Legislatures magazine, July/August 2005: 32-33
• Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work – Minnesota Extension Service and Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1995
• Building Deliberative Communities – Civic Practices Network, Commissioned by Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Michael K. Briand, 1995
• Mid-Stream Lessons on Facilitating Collaborative Learning Groups – Consensus Building Institute, Ona Ferguson, no date specified
• From Shouting Heads to Shared Concerns: An Interview with Laura Chasin – Public Conversations Project, Pegasus Communications, in Leverage Points – Issue 76, no date specified
• Knowing When Not to Push for Broad Stakeholder Consensus: The Alaskan Way Viaduct Story – Consensus Making Institute, Bennett Brooks and Scott McCreary, no date specified

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