​​Welcome to "Dialogue, Deliberation, and Systemic Transformation"  
​​aka "DandDTrans," a community of inquiry and action regarding the role that dialogue and deliberation can play in addressing the mega-crises of our time.
​​Image courtesy of www.NewStories.org
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​Main Menu: ​+Welcome​ | ​+About​ | ​+Intros​ | ​+World Cafe​ | ​+Bohm​ | ​+Open Space ​| ​+Resources​ | ​+News​ | ​+Calls​ | ​+Help​ | ​+Harvest​ | ​+Index​
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  • ​​Welcome to the hackpads for the "DandDTrans" community of inquiry and action. Our conversation took place via these hackpads and ​+a series of phone and video conference calls​, during December 2014 and January 2015.  Please note that everything on these pads should be considered part of a "public space."
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​​What follows is the welcome that was provided to participants during this engagement, which can also serve as an initial orientation for anyone who is coming in after the fact. You may also find this ​+Index​ of pads helpful in navigating.

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​​This ​+Welcome​ pad serves as an online "home base" for the inquiry. Please read it and the ​+About​ pad to get oriented. There is a menu bar at the top of all DandDTrans hackpads just below the banner image of the travelers at the crossroads. Some main menu pads also have sub-menus to help you move among related subsidiary pads. The right hand margin of each pad (in most browsers) contains an index for quick navigation within that pad. 
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​​To get back to these pads, go to hackpad.com, log in if requested (if it doesn't ask, you already are!) and look for a DandDTrans pad in the home list there, or look for the Dialogue and Deliberation "category" in the right-hand margin of that page, or use this short url to return to the Welcome pad: www.bit.ly/DandDTrans.
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​What's Happening Now?

​​The DandDTrans dialogue is now complete. Some members of ​+the hosting team​, and a few others who expressed an interest in joining us, have moved into a harvesting phase to think together about what we have learned, what future inquiries might be, and what next steps we might be taking individually, in small groups, and as a collective. Except for the harvesting section, these hackpads are now "frozen" as a record of what has taken place, and will remain accessible to all who wish to view them.
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​​Our conversation began here on hackpad in early December 2014. In January we held four plenary calls--​+two inspired by the World Cafe process​ and ​+two based on Open Space principles​. We also convened six ​+live conversations for smaller groups using Bohm dialogue​ (three were open to all participants, and three were for the hosting team plus selected invitees).
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​Check out the ​+Inquiry News​ pad (last update on 2/1) for: 
  • ​​Links to the most active pads
  • ​​Notes from the hosting team
  • ​​Discussion of what might be next
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​About the Main Online Conversation Spaces

​​Three core dialogic processes are being used in parallel for this inquiry, each of which has its own "main pad" with explanations about that process, spaces for online participation, and live call information: 
  • ​​​+World Cafe​ lets us think together about a common set of questions. 
  • ​​​+Bohm​ Dialogue is a collective inquiry not only into the content of what each of us say, think and feel but also into the underlying motivations, assumptions and beliefs that lead us to do so. 
  • ​​​+Open Space​ Technology allows any participant to initiate a conversation on a subject they care about, and to host it in any manner they choose.
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​​The main menu also includes a ​+Resources​ pad where we are compiling a wide variety of items that may be of value within this inquiry and beyond. 
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​Brief Inquiry Overview

​​Our purpose is to explore the calling question ”What do we, as members of the dialogue and deliberation community of practice, have to be and do to enable our most positive transformational impact in the face of emerging global crises which fundamentally challenge our business-as-usual habits and systems?” 
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​​The intended results of our time together (though January 31) include:  
  1. ​​To engage in deep dialogue around our calling question.
  1. ​​To connect to build community and share resources, information and strategies.
  1. ​​To elicit inspiring, actionable possibilities and support the emergence of collaborative   teams to work together on bringing them forth in the coming year.
  1. ​​To have the inquiry process itself be a prototype that can be iterated upon in service for systemic transformation.  
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​Getting started
  • ​​All participants are requested to:
  • ​​Read the ​+About​ pad to get clearer on the framing and context for this inquiry.
  • ​​Post something about themselves to the ​+Intros​ pad. 
  • ​​Next, craft your own journey through the diverse spaces that are being held for you, both on these hackpads and on ​+the live calls.​  
  • ​​There is no minimum time investment--there are ways to add value with a short bit of writing, and to go deep into collective inquiry and/or action-planning. 
  • ​​As Peggy Holman and Anne Stadler like to say,  "take responsibility for what you love, as an act of service!"
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​Register for Calls
​​If you have not already done so, register here to receive email updates on the inquiry and to join ​+our MaestroConference calls​
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​Engage in the current online conversation
  • ​​Here's a ​+Site Map​ to help a bit in getting oriented (also linked to on the ​+Help​ pad).
  • ​​Choose from among our three dialogic streams: World Cafe, Bohmian Dialogue, and Open Space (see links just above and on the main menu). 
  • ​​Browse around and "get lost!" -- there's a lot here, and it's not expected that everyone will read everything! Wander. Explore. Find something that calls to you and spend a little time with it. Be playful! 
  • ​​Once you've posted something, remember to check back later and see how others have responded, or added, to that piece of the conversation. 
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​​Contact Ben Roberts or Linda Ellinor  or post top the pad linked to below, if you have questions, or are interested in joining ​+the convening and hosting team​. You can also look for Ben on Skype any time (his contact info is benjamin_j_roberts)
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