[Dialogue] Draft of consensus paper

[sjsnelling at comcast.net]

Jeanette, this is Shirley Heckman Snelling.

I married Clarence Snelling, retired professor from Iliff School of Theology, 7 years ago -- and life is very good with us.

The colleagues in Denver are in the process of forming a not-for-profit with an umbrella organization that is serving as our fiscal agent until we get totally organized.  We are calling this new-framed organization Institute for Consensus Action - Denver.  

It would be very helpful to have a copy sent to:
Shirley Snelling
3131 East Alameda Avenue, Unit 1508
Denver CO 80209

This version of doing work in this area came into being in October 2006 when ICA USA discarded all of its program people.  A gathering in Chicago a few weeks ago involved about 40 people but the results are not clear -- no report has been sent to the participants.

Anne Neal, our Project Director is a new-to-ICA person who has had a lot of profit experience.  She is the only paid staff and is a dynamite woman.  The volunteers include Catherine Welch, Jim & Oliveann Slotta, Bob Sample, Carl Larsen, Don Elliott and myself.  David Dunn helps with facilitation when needed.  You may not recognize some of these people.  A growing supply of other people are becoming involved. 

Your work would be very helpful to us.

Thanks

Shirley

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From: Jeanette Stanfield <rbstanfi at bigpond.net.au> 

Dear Colleagues, 
I have pulled together the debriefings on the consensus process you shared 
on the list serves.  So far I have 25 pages of materials.    

Present Table of contents: 

1 Decision making and the Consensus Process

2 Signs of “Real” Consensus

3 Complexities in Consensus Process
   a.  Consensus-buy in-Resistance
   b.  Tension of Tradition and Participation
   c.   Process Traps
   d.  Diverse individual learning and processing styles
 
4 Reflections and Questions about Consensus Process

5 Successful Examples of working with building consensus


This draft is too long to put on the list serve at this point.  If you wish a copy, tell me and 
I will send it directly to your email.  I am also hoping that some of you may want to take this
paper and add points or examples.   I have not written an introduction.  Someone may want 
to work on that as well.  In my mind this is a corporate paper many of us are writing to be used
as we wish. 

Cheers  from Down Under where we have a hot election campaign going on for prime minister. 
One candidate, Kevin Rudd, counts Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an important theologian in his life. 

Take care,

Jeanette Stanfield
 
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