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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil Conversations Project seeks to renew common life in a fractured and tender world. We are a conversation-based, virtues-based resource towards hospitable, trustworthy relationship with and across difference. We honor the power of asking better questions, model reframed approaches to entrenched debates, and insist that the ruptures above the radar do not tell the whole story of our time. We aspire to amplify and cross-pollinate the generative new realities that are also being woven, one word and one life at a time. Better Conversations: [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11781">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Civic Infrastructure: Under Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 28-page paper,&#160;21st Century Civic Infrastructure: Under Construction,&#160;written by Jill Blair and Malka Kopell was commissioned by The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and published in spring 2015. The paper offers 3 keystones for building an effective and more equitable civic infrastructure: engaging all sectors; enlisting all voices; and creating vertical and horizontal thoroughfares for the exchange of information and practice. Below is an excerpt of the paper, which can be found in full on The Aspen Institute&#8217;s FCS&#8217;s site here. From the introduction&#8230; [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11769">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11722</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 300-page book, The World Cafe, was written by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs and published April 2005.&#160;In the first comprehensive book on the World Caf&#233;, co-founders Brown and Isaacs introduce readers to this simple yet powerful conversational process for thinking together, evoking collective intelligence, and creating actionable results. Beautifully illustrated with stories contributed by World Caf&#233; practitioners, this is still the most definitive compendium of Caf&#233; Know-How available. Available in&#160;Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Simple Chinese, Complex Chinese, German, Korean, and Thai. Below is an [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11722">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of a Single Story</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11492</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 18 min TedTalk,&#160;The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was filmed in July 2009. In the talk, Adichie shares what she calls, &#8220;the danger of a single story&#8221; and the false understandings that can arise when only the single side of a story is heard. Adichie shows the powerful opportunity of storytelling- to hear the many different sides of a story and have a more complete understanding of a person, a situation, a reality. Below is the full talk and a [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11492">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about . . . what’s next after the election?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article,&#160;Talking about . . . what&#8217;s next after the election? was posted on the Living Room Conversations site just before the US Election in Fall 2016. Living Room Conversations are a structured format of dialogue designed to hold space for participants across the ideological spectrum to come together and explore each other&#8217;s point of view. The original article can be found in full below and on Living Room Conversations&#8217; site here. From the site&#8230; The presidential election brought attention to our political system&#8230; and [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11444">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Generation of Our Work</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11352</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6-page article, The Next Generation of Our Work&#160;(2014), by NCDD&#8217;s own Co-Founder, Sandy Heierbacher,&#160;was&#160;published in the&#160;Journal of Public Deliberation: Vol. 10: Iss. 1. In the article, Heierbacher shares her unique view of the rapidly growing dialogue and deliberation field and lifts up the shifts in the field that shape the next generation of D&#38;D work. Changes are happening in regard to: &#8211; collaboration with government &#8211; openness to online tools for engagement &#8211; consistently rapid growth &#8211; increased energy devoted to collaborative efforts &#8211; [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11352">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Materials for Deliberative Forums</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11342</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 36-page guide,&#160;Developing Materials for Deliberative Forums, was written by Brad Rourke and published 2014 on the Kettering Foundation site. In the guide, Rourke shares all the elements needed to design an issue guide to better inform participants during deliberation. An issue guide lays out multiple sides of a subject/issue to give participants tools to engage in more informed deliberation, the guide then offers examples of the options, as well as, drawbacks to each one. There is no one perfect way to develop an issue [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11342">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Divisive Discourse: The Extreme Rhetoric of Contemporary American Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 258-page book, Divisive Discourse: The Extreme Rhetoric of Contemporary American Politics,&#160;by Joseph Zompetti was published January 2015. In the book, he discusses the extreme rhetoric that currently prevails in American political discourse and its subsequent effects on people to disengage and the political environment to become polarized.&#160;Zompetti shares insight into this toxic political environment, sheds light on the extreme rhetorical practices performed in US politics, and offers critical thinking skills for people to better participate despite this. Below is an excerpt from the book [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11270">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Participatory Budgeting in Schools</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11255</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 57-page guide,&#160;A Guide to Participatory Budgeting in Schools, was a project of the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP)&#160;and&#160;published in 2016. The guide&#8217;s curriculum design was created by Valeria Mogilevich, with project support by Melissa Appleton and Maria Hadden of PBP. This thorough guide gives details for implementing&#160;a participatory budgeting process within schools. Participatory budgeting is a process where people decide where to spend a portion of a budget by engaging their community- or in this case- their school, and vote on projects to make final [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11255">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Develop Discussion Materials for Public Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11097</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 28-page guide from Everyday Democracy, How to Develop Discussion Materials for Public Dialogue,&#160;was published November 2007. This guide describes in detail the process for developing materials for public dialogue, as have been used to develop the Everyday Democracy discussion guides. From how to get started, this guide provides tips for creating a team that represents though the guide is aimed toward and some best practices for when selecting team contributors. The guide continues with four templates for developing each step of the process when [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11097">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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