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:

Case Studies

• The People's Plan for Nature

• 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)

Alternative and Supplementary Guides to Deliberative Democracy

• 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

• Podcast: - Power of Community Imagination

• Campaign Zero Hour - the Climate and Ecology Bill

• Inspiration (World Economic Forum) David Attenborough inspired the UK to create a People's Plan for Nature. People's Plan for Nature

Further Training

The Gardeners plan more training on Community Assemblies in the near future, in collaboration with other XR Circles, including::

• Citizen's Assembly Working Group and Advocacy Network
• Operations
• Facilitation
• Relationships
• Actions
• LG Support

For Facilitation Training, the Facilitation Circle holds regular, in depth trainings. These can be adapted to different settings, including Assemblies, but we hope to collaborate on tailored trainings for local groups wanting to set up a Community Assembly soon.

Meantime, you can contact the Facilitation Circle with your questions at facilitation@extinctionrebellion.uk

Street Scripts on Citizen’s Assemblies

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