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muDemocracy teaches groups how to make decisions together, in the places you already belong. The guides are free, tested in real meetings, and need no software.
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Nobody taught us how to decide things together, so our groups fall into the same traps: conversations that circle for months, agreements that everyone remembers differently, decisions that quietly go to whoever speaks loudest. This is not a character flaw, it is a skill we were never taught. The small institutions that used to teach it, the clubs and unions and societies and congregations, have mostly gone. But the skill can be learned again, and it is learned small. A few people, making one decision well, is where every working democracy has started.
A decision exists when a commitment will reduce your options. Many decisions hide in everyday language: "we need more information" is really a decision to delay.
A simple four question format: what was decided, why, what was not chosen, and when to revisit. Enough to turn a conversation into a record your group can build on.
Some decisions need real deliberation. A nine step process keeps the group focused on one question at a time, doing the work a good facilitator would do.
Four questions. No transcript, no narrative minutes, no software. A record your group can read in thirty seconds and still trust in a year. The guides show you how to write one.
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it.
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Five practical guides to recognising, recording, and deliberating decisions, tested in real meetings. They are free and printable, with no sign-up.
Read morePick the next decision your group has to make and record it in four questions. You don't need permission or a platform to begin. The guide takes ten minutes to read and one meeting to try.
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