Resources

 

My Partners

Integral Togetherness – Making collective intelligence a daily practice

Andy Paice – Facilitating participation for wise outcomes

 

Other Facilitation Services

A brief selection:

EN:

Involve – We believe that people should be at the heart of decision-making

DE:

Mehr Demokratie – “Wenn wir aufhören, die Demokratie zu entwickeln, fängt die Demokratie an aufzuhören.”

FR:

Particitiz – Créer de nouvelles formes de participation citoyenne

 

Digital Democratic Tools

A few illustrative examples for inspiration:

Citizen Lab – The citizen participation toolbox for governments

Digital Democracy – Partnering with communities worldwide to build tools to defend their rights

E-participation – A manual. Take a look at the how to and some case studies

 

Healing our Planet – Changing the World

A few examples:

Daniel’s Blog:

Daniel Christian Wahl: Catalysing transformative innovation, cultural co-creation, whole systems design, and bioregional regeneration. Author of Designing Regenerative Cultures.

Drawdown:

“Project Drawdown is a global research organization that identifies, reviews, and analyzes the most viable solutions to climate change, and shares these findings with the world.“

They „partner with communities, policy-makers, universities, non-profits, businesses, investors, and philanthropists to deploy climate solutions as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.“

Gunter Pauli:

Founder and Director of ZERI (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives), a global network of creative minds seeking solutions to world challenges.

Rob Hopkins:

Imagination taking power. From What Is to What If?

Project Together:

Gemeinsam Zukunft gestalten – eine Social Acceleration Plattform für junge Visionär*innen.

Socialter:

Le magazine des transitions qui défend une autre vision, axée sur le changement et les mutations, alliant désir d’agir et approche critique.

Ouishare:

An international network of explorer-entrepreneurs who have the desire to lead innovative projects and to question our times; a network with 60 connectors (highly active members) and hundreds of members in 20 countries throughout Europe, Latin and North America, and the Middle-East. Their visions: collaborative practices, shared governance, decentralization, smart cities.

 

Good news

EN:

Daily good news that inspires – Promoting positive and uplifting news around the world

Good news network – The website, with an archive of 21,000 positive news stories from around the globe.

Intelligent Optimism – The Future is better than you think. Being optimistic about the future in an informed and rational way based on statistics, data, evidence, facts, science, and empirical evidence.

The Optimist Daily – Creating a shift in Global Consciousness – a new model for news

Positive News – The magazine for good journalism about the good things that are happening

Tiny Buddha – simple wisdom for complex lives – “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” ~Buddha

DE:

Die Good News App – Beginnen Sie Ihren Tag mit den guten Nachrichten von “The Good News App”.

Good News EU – Der tägliche Überblick über die wichtigsten guten Nachrichten

Love Green – Wir retten die Welt – jeder ein bisschen

Newslichter – Die gesammelten guten Nachrichten dieses Universums

Nur positive Nachrichten – Licht werfen auf inspirierende, motivierende Meldungen über Menschen, Projekte und Entwicklungen

Good Impact – Ideen. Lösungen. Gutes Leben

FR:

Bonnes nouvelles – Pour rompre avec le fatalisme et changer le monde

Journal des Bonnes Nouvelles – Reconnaître que si l’on regarde le bon côté de chaque être, de chaque situation, tout devient possible, positif, plus beau

Le Petit Journal des Bonnes Nouvelles – Diffuser au plus grand nombre de la bonne humeur, de l’optimisme, du positif, de la joie

Peps News – Le site de l’actu positive

Positivr – Des initiatives positives, des causes inspirantes, des innovations prometteuses, des artistes talentueux et des actus dans l’air du temps. Découvrez votre dose quotidienne d’inspiration POSITIVE !

We Demain – Et si la crise était l’occasion de réinventer les modèles du XXe siècle ? We Demain guette les initiatives technologiques, économiques, énergétiques, médicales, alimentaires et artistiques qui réinventent le monde.

 

Books

EN:

From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins – Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

Lobbying for Change by Alberto Alemanno – Find your voice to create a better society

Rebooting Democracy by Manuel Arriaga – A citizen’s guide to Reinventing Politics

The Tao of Democracy by Tom Attlee – Using Co-Intelligence to create a world that works for all

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman – Rutger shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable

Humankind – A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman – By providing a new historical perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history, Rutger sets out to prove that we are in fact hard-wired for kindness, geared toward cooperation rather than competition, and more inclined to trust rather than distrust one another.

Towards sustainable decision-making in politics by Elke Esders – coaching for politicians

A new republic of the heart by Terri Patten – A guide to inner work for holistic change

Theory U – Leading from the Future as It Emerges by Otto Scharmer

The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin

DE:

Nachhaltig denken und handeln – Coaching für Politiker by Elke Esders

FR:

La démocratie des émotions par Loic Blondiaux et Christophe Traini

Petit manuel de créativité politique par Stephen Boucher

Inventer la démocratie du 21ème siècle – L’assemblée citoyenne du futur par Dominique Bourget et Loic Blondiaux

Pour supprimer les partis politiques !? Réflexions d’un apatride sans parti par Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Le mépris du peuple : comment l’oligarchie a pris la société en otage par Jack Dion

Le Coup d’État Citoyen – Ces initiatives qui réinventent la Démocratie par Elisa Lewis et Romain Slitine

Les nouveaux collectifs citoyens, pratiques et perspectives par Ivan Maltcheff

Réinventer la France par Gérard Mermet

Radicaliser la démocratie par Dominique Rousseau

Contre les Elections par David Van Reybrouck

IT:

E facile cambiare l’Italia da Alessandro Rimassa