Additional Reading

More Resources

To learn more about assemblies happening all round the world, the XR Local Group Support Pack contains a list of website and video links to grassroots organisations doing deliberative democracy in their way... It's truly inspirational... Here's a taster:

Podcast:Podcasts

• Power of Community Imagination

###Case Studies

• Case Study: The People's Plan for Nature

  Sortition Foundation - their proposal for a House of Citizens is supported by Extinction Rebellion

  UK Parliament Debate

  Another Deliberative Democracy manual

  Los Indignados Assemblies in Spain

  XR Community Alliance Building Trainings (Relationships Circle on YouTube)

  Case study blogs describing local deliberative democracy

  Alternative models of deliberation:

  • Open Space Technology

  • Goldfish Bowl Meetings

  Why Extinction Rebellion Demands A Citizens' Assembly On Climate And Ecological Justice explanatory video.

  Zero Hour - the Climate and Ecology Bill

  Ireland's children's assembly on biodiversity calls on Ireland to 'treat the Earth like family'

  Video on Cheshire East People’s Panel on the Cost of Living with Positive Money: Cheshire East People's Panel on the Cost of Living.

• Take The Square blogs about local deliberative democracy

###National Assembly Campaigns

• Sortition Foundation: proposal for a House of Citizens is supported by Extinction Rebellion

• Why Extinction Rebellion Demands A Citizens' Assembly On Climate And Ecological Justice explanatory video.

• Extinction Rebellion: Webpages and links on XR's 3rd Demand for a Citizen's Assembly on our climate and ecological emergency

• UK Parliament Debate

• (Ireland)Children's Assembly on Biodiversity Call on Ireland to 'treat the Earth like family'

• (Spain) Los Indignados Assemblies

• Luxembourg 'step up' green energy and efficiency targets partly due to citizens' assembly (Euro News)

###Guides

• Community At Work: Deliberative Democracy manual

• XR Community Alliance Building Trainings (Relationships Circle on YouTube)

• Open Space Technology: Alternative models of deliberation

• Better Evaluation: Goldfish Bowl Meetings

###Other Resources

• Zero Hour - the Climate and Ecology Bill

• David Attenborough has inspired the UK to create a People's Plan for Nature. Here's what you need to know (World Economic Forum)

  Luxembourg

'step up' green energy and efficiency targets partly due to citizens' assembly (Euro News)

Citizen's Assemblies

XR’s Citizens’ Assembly website page with FAQs

Street Scripts on Citizen’s Assemblies

Further Training

For Facilitation Training, the Facilitation Circle holds regular, in depth trainings.
These can be adapted to different settings, including Assemblies. You can contact the Facilitation Circle at facilitation@extinctionrebellion.uk with any questions

Trust the People 8 weeks and free, twice per year from the experts in building deliberative democracy

Hope For The Future Talking to Politicians whom you may invite to your assembly