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If your community or organization needs to deliberate an
important public issue, you may find that public deliberative forums and
study circles would be very useful in meeting that need.
How
do I Convene a Forum?
Tips and guidelines for how to get started, form
partnerships, choose a topic, and organize your forum.
Discussion Guides and Materials
Several issue guides on a variety of public issues have been developed
to support forums and study circles.
National
Issues Forums
has over 30 issue booklets and companion videos on a
variety of topics to assist the steering committee in conducting a
forum.
 Public
Agenda's Choicework dialogue materials are designed to help
groups
and communities talk
productively about public problems.
The
Study Circles Resource Center publishes discussion guides on a variety
of public issues. Guides are available for download and/or in printed
form.
The Harwood Institute has created
tools, reports, and frameworks, dealing with a wide range of public
concerns and issues. These publications are provided free of charge.
Moderators and Recorders
In Oklahoma,
there are several OPPD-trained moderators and recorders to assist in
convening and conducting non-partisan, non-biased, non-advocacy public
deliberative forums and study circles. Click here for a current
listing. (password required)
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