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21st Century Town Meeting Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £50,000+
21st Century Town Meetings bring together between 500 and 5,000 people, to discuss local, regional or national issues. By using tech…

Action Learning Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Action Learning is a process whereby the participant studies their own actions and experience in order to help learn more, solve pro…

Action Planning Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Action Planning is a strategic method to help focus and decide what steps to take to achieve certain goals.

Appreciative Inquiry Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) uses questions to build a vision for the future, focusing on past and potential future successes. These qu…

Area Forums Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Area Forums are meetings held locally, often hosted by the local council. The meetings are attended by local councillors, together w…

Citizen Advisory Groups Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Citizen advisory groups involve 10-30 members of the public who sit as a committee to inform and advise decision making over an exte…

Citizens' Jury Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
A Citizen's Jury is a method of delberation developed by the Jefferson Center where a small group of people (between 12 and 24),…

Citizens' Panel Media: ... online processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
A Citizens' Panel is a large, demographically representative group of citizens regularly used to assess public preferences and o…

Citizens' Summits Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
A Citizens' Summit is a generic term for large-scale deliberative public meetings that use communications technology to facilita…

Co-production Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
The term Co-production refers to a way of working where service providers and users, work together to reach a collective outcome. Th…

Community Appraisal Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Community Appraisals are surveys of local need and opinion about issues such as local housing, schooling, training, employment, cult…

Consensus Conference Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £50,000+
A Consensus Conference is made up of a panel of citizens who question expert witnesses on a particular topic at a public conference.…

Consensus Voting Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Consensus Voting is a method used to identify the consensus opinion through a balanced voting system.

Conversation Cafes Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Conversation Cafe is an informal dialogue method which invites people to take part in discussions about topical issues in an informa…

Crowd Wise Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Crowd Wise is a community participation method for making shared decisions such as setting priorities, allocating budgets or respond…

Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining services, ideas, functions, or contacts from a large and undefined network of people. Thi…

Deliberative Mapping Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
Deliberative Mapping involves both specialists and members of the public. It combines various approaches to assess how participants…

Deliberative Polling Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
A Deliberative Poll takes a representative sample of the population, provides them with information about an issue and time to delib…

Deliberative Workshops Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Deliberative Workshops refer to small-scale dialogue events where the focus is on having in-depth informed discussion.

Delphi Survey Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
A Delphi Survey is a series of questionnaires that allow experts to develop ideas about potential future developments around an issu…

Democs Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Democs (Deliberative Meeting Of CitizenS) is a conversation game developed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) that helps small gr…

Dialogue Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Dialogue covers a wide range of different activities, which aim to share opinions between people and build relationships. It is ofte…

Distributed Dialogue Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
A distributed dialogue is a decentralised approach to deliberation with the aim to develop ongoing, embedded discussions around a gi…

Feedback Kiosks Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Feedback kiosks are static booths which can be placed in any space and allow people to give electronic feedback on services.

Focus Groups Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Focus Groups are guided discussions of a small group of citizens. They are normally one-off sessions although several may be run sim…

Forum Theatre Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Forum Theatre uses theatre to achieve social aims. It is a form of theatre that encourages audience interaction and explores differe…

Future Search Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
A Future Search conference is a way for a community or organisation to create a shared vision for its future. It engages a large gro…

Future workshop
A Future Workshop is a method for planning and forming a vision of the future. Workshops help define aims and identify problems.

Graphic Recording Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Graphic Recording involves capturing participants’ ideas on large-sized paper using artwork, words, images and colour.

Hackathon Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
A Hackathon is an event where people come together and use technology to collaboratively improve upon or build new software. Hackath…

Mediation Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Mediation is a voluntary process where a neutral party intervenes to help others bring their dispute to a settlement.

Mystery Shopper Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Mystery shopping a way of auditing services through the involvement of trained user volunteers. Mystery shoppers have been described…

Open Space Technology Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Open Space Technology, or simply ‘Open Space’, is a meeting framework that allows an unlimited number of participants to form their…

Opinion Poll Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
A form of quantitative survey that measures the opinion of a sample of people.

Participatory Appraisal Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Participatory Appraisal is a broad empowerment approach that seeks to build community knowledge and encourages grassroots action. It…

Participatory Budgeting Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £10,000-£49,999
Participatory budgeting is an umbrella term which covers a variety of mechanisms that delegate power or influence over local budgets…

Participatory GIS Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
Participatory GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is a social learning tool that uses visual representations to aid facilitation.

Participatory Strategic Planning Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
The Participatory Strategic Planning process is a consensus-building approach that helps a community come together in explaining how…

Participatory Video Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Participatory Video (PV) is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in shaping and creating their own films.

Planning for Real Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Participants make a 3D model of their local area and add suggestions of how they would like to see their community develop. They the…

Pop Up Democracy Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
The term Pop Up Democracy refers to the use of temporary, site-specific installations that provide opportunities for increased local…

Positive Deviance Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Positive Deviance is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behavio…

Trade School Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
Trade School is a grassroots school that brings people together to exchange knowledge and skills with bartering at its heart. Teache…

User Panels Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
User Panels are regular meetings of service users about the quality of a service or other related topics. They help to identify the…

World Cafe Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
The World Cafe is a method which makes use of an informal cafe for participants to explore an issue by discussing in small table gro…

World Wide Views Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £50,000+
The World Wide Views method is based on a deliberative approach to tackle complex policy issues at an international level. National-…

Written Consultations Costs: £10,000-£49,999
Written Consultations are a way of gauging outside opinions and different perspectives on an issue.

Moderation methods

Design Charrettes Media: ... face to face processes | Costs: £0-£999
A Design Charrette is an intensive, hands-on workshop that brings people from different disciplines and backgrounds together with me…

Online tools

Blogs Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
Blogs are online journals or noticeboards where individuals or organisations can provide commentary and critique on news, or specifi…

E-petitions Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
E-petitions are just like paper petitions but online. They are traditionally used to demonstrate large amounts of support for an opi…

ePanel Media: ... online processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
ePanels are a way for councils or other organisations to carry out regular online consultations with a known group of citizens.

Language Accessibility Tools Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
A variety of specialist tools enabling improved access to information for those unable to access conventional sources for differing…

Local Issues Forum Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
The goal of a Local Issues Forum is to give everyone a greater voice in local decisions and encourage more citizen participation in…

Mashups Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
“Mashups” (or Application Hybrid) is the general name for web tools which combine two or more data sources (from different sites).

Online Consultations Media: ... online processes | Costs: £1,000-£9,999
Online consultations utilise the internet to ask a group of people their opinion on an issue (typically a policy in the development…

Online Discussion Groups Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
Online discussion groups are situated on websites, and support users to enter into conversation with one or more people by typing in…

Wiki Media: ... online processes | Costs: £0-£999
The term wiki is used to describe a piece of software that allows multiple dispersed authors to edit the content of web pages.

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