Want us to learn how to effectively moderate a Deliberation Falls Church community forum – skills that can also be applied for problem-solving at home, at work and in the community?
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Through demonstration and hands-on teaching, you’ll learn how community deliberation produces understanding in place of polarization, and action instead of inertia.
Trainees will Learn and Experience…
• How a deliberative forum is different from public meetings, charrettes and other types of community or group gatherings.
• How deliberation identifies the public perspective and can be a catalyst for community action.
• A framework for moderating deliberation in small groups.
• The role of issue guides in discussing choices, tradeoffs, criticisms and what can be done.
• Hands-on training in specific skills that are used for moderating deliberative forums, based on experiences gained from hundreds of forums held nationally and internationally.
Your Trainers
Training will be led by Beth Offenbacker and Bill Corbett of The Center for Voter Deliberation of Northern Virginia, (www.voterdeliberation.org), a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that is providing its services to Deliberation Day free, including training for adult and student discussion leaders. The center is a member of the National Issues Forum network (www.nifi.org) and a grantee of the Kettering Foundation (www.Kettering.org), a leader for over twenty-five years in deliberative democracy research. The Deliberation Day format, the discussion guide and the discussion leader training are based on NIF and Kettering research.
