During the Meeting
Establishing and Enforcing Ground Rules
Ground Rules for Dialog and Deliberation Processes
Source: National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
A list of suggested ground rules matched to particular engagement processes to have posted at a public meeting.
Moderating and Facilitating
Public Participation Tasks and Techniques: Public Hearings
Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control
These guidelines are geared toward public hearings with the goal of collecting comments from participants. They include recommendations for managing an audience and effectively recording comments.
Civic Life Institute Participant Guidebook, 2010
Source: West Virginia Center for Civic Life
This guidebook offers in-depth insights into facilitating group communication at public meetings. It offers templates for preparing to moderate, sample questions to stimulate participation, and covers other general aspects of facilitation. See sections three and four, “The Roles of Moderator and Recorder” and “Preparing to Practice Moderating” (pp. 23-39).
Gauging Collective Preferences for Decision Making
Group Decision Tools
Source: National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
This series of blog posts offers many practical minded tips to consider when making decisions.
How to Set Up a Dotmocracy Wall
Source: Dotmocracy
Dotmocracy is an innovative technique to gauge collective preferences and is particularly useful among large groups of people.