We believe that participatory learning and decision-making should be accessible, affordable, and fun. We love to learn new things, exchange ideas, engage in brave conversations, and test theoretical models of restorative practices in the real world.
That’s why we design and host events that provide our learning community with regular opportunities for discovery, analysis, and praxis. We hope you’ll join us for the constellation of Building a New Reality events.
Upcoming – Citizens’ Assembly Workshop
BANR has advocated an expanded view of restorative practices that includes large-group decision making processes, including deliberative processes that we believe could help in the much-needed project to upgrade democracy around the world. Whatever your familiarity is with these processes, here’s your chance to understand them better and get comfortable talking to friends and acquaintances about how they work.
Owen Shaffer, Executive Director of Democracy Without Elections, has designed this 1.5-hour workshop for those with beginning to intermediate levels of familiarity with Citizens’ Assemblies. All participants will be brought up to an intermediate level through selected readings prior to the workshop.
The workshop will begin with a quick review of Citizens’ Assembly basics to reinforce the readings. That basic understanding will then be expanded to include Citizens’ Assembly standards, comparing Citizens’ Assemblies to other representative deliberative methods, case studies, and a model for an agenda-setting permanent Citizens’ Assembly. Ample time will be devoted to discussion.
Participants will be limited to 12 people in this session. We are offering this workshop at two convenient times:
- Saturday, August 13 at Noon Eastern US, 9 am Pacific US, 6 pm Central Europe
- Thursday, August 18 at 7 pm Eastern, 4 pm Pacific.
Cost is $15. Proceeds will be divided between the Building a New Reality Foundation.
