Yes we can
Dear Colleagues,
as a very young man, I was intensively involved in a political party for several years. Ultimately, this experience disillusioned me and led me to question how it is possible to think and decide together in a wiser way. This later led me to facilitation.
On a small scale, with the groups and organisations I work with, I experience this wiser thinking and deciding (most of the time).
On a societal scale, we seem to be trapped in the polarisation between parties. In the logics of power. Our current democracy is failing to respond adequately to the growing challenges. Authoritarian and populist actors are triumphing. Transformative solutions will no longer emerge from our current eroding form of democracy.
But what might the new one look like? A quantum leap will be possible if we no longer delegate responsibility to professional politicians, but instead begin to govern ourselves.
A comprehensive sketch of such a form of self-government has now been presented by the German political scientist Brigitte Geissel: in her book ‘The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic Innovations By, With and For the People’ she describes the necessary approaches to a transformative development of democracy.
Her starting point is that we must first decide what kind of democracy we want to live in. And this decision can look very different depending on the community. She describes possible processes and procedures of self-governance in detail.
I warmly recommend her book to anyone who is concerned about current developments and the ominous prospects. The digital version can be downloaded for free:
German Version https://www.amazon.de/Demokratie-als-Selbst-Regieren-Demokratische-Innovationen/dp/3847430408/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1X8CQM2VDIF9E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-z_gI240dBA95oSNFOmtCX9kHw6mvQrUZdk2ujt9lpeSv89vbtXwW3tm0TQIoTBMCtGyrFQUD_JhGnWXE_QxmI_BnMHDeiakErGqQAT5W8CLHEj5ktbwnn6OK80S2-QEXJSrj_tsSssYmGKFtJs1CpCLPtcyXd5i7pqp_q7g65TdrfCpb69Yt72cyNKeCmpNIu3qgeBlfJGiNJ7CRimXVGfi6ax9y--mpUxVkQ8A78c.U2akcV-ke0KDagOBNATa6wITyj3jdYhUYkWTO789jNU&dib_tag=se&keywords=brigitte+geissel&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732463101&sprefix=brigitte+geissel,aps,230&sr=8-1
We facilitators experience time and again (or so I assume) that self-organisation is possible. This makes us witnesses and ambassadors of the possible.
Rolf

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Thanks, Rolf, seems like you have read the book, if so would you kindly
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Thank again in Solidarity with the people, Tony
On 11/24/2024 11:13 AM, Rolf Schneidereit via OSList wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
as a very young man, I was intensively involved in a political party
for several years. Ultimately, this experience disillusioned me and
led me to question how it is possible to think and decide together in
a wiser way. This later led me to facilitation.
On a small scale, with the groups and organisations I work with, I
experience this wiser thinking and deciding (most of the time).
On a societal scale, we seem to be trapped in the polarisation between
parties. In the logics of power. Our current democracy is failing to
respond adequately to the growing challenges. Authoritarian and
populist actors are triumphing. Transformative solutions will no
longer emerge from our current eroding form of democracy.
But what might the new one look like? A quantum leap will be possible
if we no longer delegate responsibility to professional politicians,
but instead begin to govern ourselves.
A comprehensive sketch of such a form of self-government has now been
presented by the German political scientist Brigitte Geissel: in her
book ‘The Future of Self-Governing, Thriving Democracies: Democratic
Innovations By, With and For the People’ she describes the necessary
approaches to a transformative development of democracy.
Her starting point is that we must first decide what kind of democracy
we want to live in. And this decision can look very different
depending on the community. She describes possible processes and
procedures of self-governance in detail.
I warmly recommend her book to anyone who is concerned about current
developments and the ominous prospects. The digital version can be
downloaded for free:
We facilitators experience time and again (or so I assume) that
self-organisation is possible. This makes us witnesses and ambassadors
of the possible.
Rolf
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