Australian Study Circles Network

Did you ever wonder how Citizens Juries are different from Deliberative Polling? When should you use World Cafe, rather than Open Space? Or are Charrettes what’s called for? First developed in 2005, NCDD’s Engagement Streams Framework helps people navigate the range of dialogue and deliberation approaches available to them, and make design choices that best [...]

In April 2011, Dr Mark Brophy, director of ASCN presented and participated at the Kettering Foundation Multinational Workshop Week – Civic Organizations Around the World in Dayton Ohio.  Mark presented a case study of the Australian Dialogue to Change Program to community and civic organisations from around the world. A film of the presentation is here.

This resource is a collaborative work in progress. The framework depicted in these charts is designed to help people navigate through the range of options available and to make choices that are appropiate for circumstances and resources.

This Master Class introduces practitioners to the award-winning Dialogue, Deliberation & Public Engagement (DDPE) program, now in its seventh year. The School of Humanities and Communication Arts at UWS is the proud partner with the DDPE Collaborative in North America. This three-day workshop will be in Sydney in March 2012.  It will appeal to those working [...]

Two basic assumptions underpinning the learning circle idea are that adult individuals have an innate desire to learn and that active participation promotes this learning. The work of the learning circle emanates form the conditions and circumstances of the lives of the participants, and reward for the m is the experience of a greater understanding [...]

Australian Study Circles Network ran a Dialogue to Change Program in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia in March and April 2011. We worked with Goldfields Employment and Learning Centre and Neighbourhood Renewal, Central Goldfields Shire. This video captures the experience from ASCN and local organisers and residents.

To me it was a revelation. This was a process to get a community to come together, to talk through issues, to come up with ideas and then to lead to some types of solutions that are attainable. Drina Andrews – Manager Goldfields Employment and Learning Centre People who were there are saying that they [...]

The Biochar Project is a living evolving resource with the sole purpose of enlightening people to the exciting future of Biochar and its beneficial environmental potential. It is one family’s journey to discover themselves and the beautiful land they were born in with the sole intention of sharing this wonderful discovery that is Biological charcoal. [...]

Celebrating Adult Learning Spaces The 51st Annual ALA Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Adult Education, Melbourne on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th of September. ALA Conferences have a strong tradition of bringing together international and national practitioners, stakeholders and researchers in the fields of adult education and lifelong learning to learn, share [...]

This Maryborough Dialogue to Change Program Report, June 2011, provides recommendations, quantitative outputs, qualitative data, the chronology of the Dialogue to Change Program and the action ideas generated from the process.