Episode 35 The emotional work of deliberation with Rosa Zubizarreta
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Facilitating Public Deliberations
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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.
LINKS
Rosa’s website DiaPraxis is where many of her writings can be found
Citizens Council: What are they, and why are they so popular in Austria?
Better Angels Project, now called Braver Angels
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
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