Citizens’ Assemblies: the role of process guidance for ‘the good conversation’. The essay is published in the bundle “A gift for democracy? Perspectives on the development of citizens’ assemblies”, published by Boom Publishers.
Netherlands
The majority of people in our collective and community are based in the Netherlands. We love to help organisations, institutes and communities in our own country navigate complexity. Examples of our work in the Netherlands can be found below. contact us
Biomaterials Dialogue: Towards a Sustainable Chemical Industry
How can the Netherlands accelerate its transition to sustainable biomaterials and move away from fossil-based resources? This question is central to the initiative “Biomaterials Dialogue”.
Citizens think along about care and health and in the region
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) wants to set up regional participation hubs for health, healthcare and support throughout the Netherlands.
National Citizens’ Assembly on Climate: What an incredible adventure!
Perspectivity contributes with 5 colleagues, Petra de Boer, Han Rakels, Monique Janmaat, Chiwei Luu and Anna Betsy Kanneworff to the National Citizens’ Assembly.
Multi-stakeholder collaboration to co-create new provincial programme Natuur voor Elkaar
Perspectivity supported the province Overijssel with the development of a new programme on nature protection and inclusion, called Natuur voor Elkaar, Perspectivity developed and facilitated a two-days multi-stakeholder co-creation work conference.
Citizens’ Assembly Maastricht
Perspectivity in collaboration with EMMA designed and facilitated the first citizens’ assembly in the city of Maastricht.
Exploring Flavors and Dimensions: A Creative Journey through Writeshops in the Netherlands
Imagine tasting through writing? How might that feel and be like? Sara and Nohad invited participants for a mini-writeshop to explore the dimensions of one’s life through flavors.
Collecting perspectives in dialogue
How Deep Democracy can help remove dividing lines between roles and functions to get to the in-depth discussions about underlying beliefs and dilemmas.
Reading and Writing Foundation harvests effects
The Reading and Writing Foundation wants to better understand how its support to municipalities contributes to better policy and implementation. So that people with low literacy can be helped even better. The foundation already reports annually on the activities carried out but want to gain more insight into what all those efforts achieve. Using Outcome Harvesting as a methodology.
Appreciative Inquiry ‘Summit’ for collective action around SDG 7
The past July, some 30 people representing 15 organisations convened for 2 days in The Hague as front-runners in the NL Energy Compact. The summit was co-hosted and facilitated by MVO Nederland and Perspectivity’s Han Rakels. While their stakes were very diverse,...
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