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		<title>The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 342-page book, Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time, by Mary Gelinas, was published September 2016. In the book, Gelinas explains and guides you and your community in eight practices that are essential to creating effective dialogue and deliberation. Use it as a guidebook or training manual to enhance your own skills as you work with groups to address the issues they care about. From the book&#8230;&#160; We create the present and future in our meetings and conversations every day. What [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11517">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>The Reunited States of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 16:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 192-page book by Mark Gerzon,&#160;The Reunited States of America:&#160;How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide, was&#160;published February 2016. This book is a manifesto on how to bridge the political divide in America, during a time when the political environment is deeply poisoned. Gerzon shares the experiences of 40 individuals and organizations that are already doing the work of finding common ground, and working together around challenging and divisive issues. Here you will find a toolkit to join&#160;the emerging movement towards a transpartisan political environment [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11071">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow’s Change Makers: Reclaiming the Power of Citizenship for a New Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 288-page book, Tomorrow&#8217;s Change Makers: Reclaiming the Power of Citizenship for a New Generation, published September 2015, discusses youth civic engagement in the US and how youth can be more civically engaged. About the book&#8230;&#160; Youth volunteerism and civic engagement has changed in America. While the numbers of young people who volunteer have risen substantially, recent studies show that very few find meaning and purpose through serving their communities. For many, volunteerism has become just another school requirement that bolsters a good college resume. [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10314">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions: Lessons from a Public Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Yankelovich, chairman and co-founder of Public Agenda published the book,&#160;Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions: Lessons from a Public Life&#160;in December 2014. This 202-page book&#160;presents a strategy to nurture the greater public wisdom necessary for modern society to confront its most wicked problems. From Dan&#8217;s blog post at Public Agenda A whole mess of wicked problems such as stagnant incomes, blocked social mobility, political polarization and a dysfunctional educational system threaten to overwhelm us. (The definition of a Wicked Problem is that conventional solutions, by themselves, [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9570">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/8534</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandy Heierbacher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine&#8217;s&#160;We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For&#160;(2013) is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens&#8217; public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of its decline, and a searing critique of our political institutions, Levine &#8212; one of America&#8217;s most influential civic engagement theorists &#8212; argues that American [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/8534">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/8440</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their book, The Art of Convening, authors Craig and Patricia Neal explore their &#8220;Art of Convening&#8221; engagement model and how it goes &#8220;beyond facilitating&#8221;. According to their book, convening creates an environment in which all voices are heard, profound exchanges take place, and transformative action results. The heart of this book is the Convening Wheel &#8212; a series of nine steps, or Aspects, that bring the practices and principles needed for authentic engagement together as a whole. The book provides exercises, stories, and questions [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/8440">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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