How should we improve Topeka? Use a local community-created framework to deliberate three possible options for taking action. Weigh tradeoffs and consider unintended consequences.
May 12 or 18 - Attend by Zoom. Register for May 12 at
https://events.tscpl.org/event/6170421. Register for May 18
https://events.tscpl.org/event/6170420.
June 2, July 21 or Aug 7 attend in person in the library's Marvin Auditorium A.
Access issue guide & learn more at tscpl.org/conversations or email
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What is deliberation and why is it important?
The discovery of a shared direction, guided by what we value most.
Deliberation is an unbiased kind of talking that starts where the problem starts with your experience of it. It's not a bunch of abstract backroom negotiations, but real, genuine, human struggles of which we are a part.
Unlike debate, or lecture, or an airing of grievances, deliberation asks us to begin with what we hold most dear and share our personal experiences with a given issue. It's not about reaching agreement or seeing eye-to-eye. It's about looking at the costs and consequences of possible solutions to daunting problems, and finding out what we, as a people, will or will not accept as a solution.
Learn more from the National Issues Forum
https://www.nifi.org/.
