MindMixer is a “virtual town hall” providing a forum for communities to share ideas, discuss, and create plans for the future. Without the time and place constraints, citizens can share ideas online, and leaders can gain input from their communities.
The Issue Guide Exchange is a free, online resource available to anyone who is interested in broad-based, inclusive dialogue leading to community action. It is a place for people to share, create, and discuss dialogue materials.
World Café is a tool that allows for meaningful collaborative discussions, sharing information, and positioning for action. As a metaphor, the World Café stands for bringing together diverse groups of people in open settings.
GOOD is a company that produces an online and print magazine, videos, and an interactive website for the general public; it is “the integrated media platform for people who want to live well and do good.”
Through research, conflict- and problem-mapping, discussion facilitation, training, and evaluation, the Consensus Building Institute helps communities and organizations to make complex decisions collectively and using consensus-building techniques.
Visual Preference Surveys (VPS) are tools to help communities establish a common vision of what their localities should look like by asking participants to rate their preference or dislike of selected images of the community.