Feb 9th 2026, 4pm GMT. Making a Success of the Modern Industrial Strategy
Can citizen assemblies help businesses, universities, and local councils, navigate the UK Government’s industrial strategy, driving alignment. Register Here
- Professor Tim Minshall Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), Head of the IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM) and a Fellow of Churchill College.
- Irenie Ekkeshis: Co-Founder of New Citizen Project, a participation consultancy which supports organisations to strategically design and deliver innovative participatory programmes
- Jo Lucas: Director of CoCrea8: Creating delivery frameworks and connecting networks within complex projects to ensure the right knowledge at the right time for optimal project performance
Previous Discussions
Tuesday 30th September at 3 pm EDT we took part in a special gathering: part mini-reunion, part future-planning, and a trial of a new RSA Fellows format. Six Fellows presented their projects, and we joined breakout sessions for deeper conversations.
Feb 6th 2025, Beyond Profit: Can ordinary citizens redefine responsible investing?
Can a new new kind of public participation help inform the legal stewards of trillions of dollars of pensions funds to help usher in a new era of investing finances to prioritize societal outcomes, rather than purely thinking about return on investment?
- Professor Emmeline Cooper Expert in sustainable investing
- Tim MacDonald Lawyer and financial theorist
- Forrest Sparks Participatory process designer
14th November 2024 Pathway To Inner Peace
A discussion on how deliberative democracy can help people reach a deeper sense of who they are in relation to others. A way for people to reach out and connect to those that seem so very distance and far away.
- Mandar Apte: Film maker, Thought Leader, Social Innovator, Meditation Teacher and Storyteller who works with changemakers, leaders and organizations to reimagine their purpose & impact.
- Layne Hartsell: AUSN Professor of Ethics of Science and Technology, Center for Ethics of Science and Society, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Cohost Chris Forman – Deliberation Gateway Network Lead
- Cohost Ian Troesoyer – Democracy Without Elections.
Feb 15th, 6pm EST 2024, Non-violence and Deliberative Democracy.
How does the way we treat each other translate into societal behavior? Can we avoid civil discord in the US? Register Here
- Professor April Chatham-Carpenter Professor of applied communication at University of Arkansas and Former director of Field Communications for Braver Angels
- Professor Roger Berkowitz Founder and Academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics, and Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Human Rights at Bard College
- Professor Lestor Kurtz Professor of Nonviolent Social Movements at George Mason University
October 12th 2023, 6PM EDT, Technology and Deliberative Democracy.
- Alice Siu, Stanford Center on Democracy. Development and Rule of Law.
- Andrew Stillman CTO of Braver Angels,
- Professor John Gastil,Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Science, Public Policy and Policitical Science at Pennsylvania Start University
- Liz Barry, COO of Computational Democracy.
March 30th 2023, 6PM EDT, Gateway to Real Democracy
- Linn Davis, Healthy Democracy
- Phil Lindsay Hannan Arendt Center
- Rahmin Sarabi Democracy Next.
Sun 9th August 2020, 21h00 EDT, “Unlocking Deliberation”
Sat 21st December 2019, 12h00 EDT, On Tap, Not on Top!
Thu 21st November 2019, 12h00 EDT, Strategies for engaging power,
Sat 21st September 2019 11h00 CT When is Deliberation a Bad Idea?
Sat 27th July 2019, 12h00 EDT: What unmet needs are met by deliberation?
Sat 23rd March 2019, 12h00 EDT: When is deliberation useful?
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