Welcome to the NCDD Resource Center!
If you’re looking for resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement, boy have you come to the right place! Here are some of the things you can find in NCDD’s Resource Center…
Our Beginner’s Guide
New to dialogue & deliberation (D&D), new to the NCDD site, or new to the breadth of D&D approaches out there? Check out the Beginner’s Guide and start familiarizing yourself with some great resources, including…
- NCDD’s Resource Guide on Public Engagement
- Our Engagement Streams Framework, designed to help you make sense of all the methods
- Quick Reference Glossary – over 100 terms defined to help you make sense of it all
- What is Dialogue? and What is Deliberation? pages
Latest Resources Added
New resources are added every couple days by NCDD and members of the NCDD community (via our Add-A-Resource form), and here are the very latest (see more)…
- Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement
Several years in the making, with the involvement of many of us in the D&D community, this 2012 book edited by Tina Nabatchi, John Gastil, G. Michael Weiksner, and Matt… - Bringing Citizen Voices to the Table: A Guide for Public Managers
This important 2012 book by Carolyn Lukensmeyer (founder of AmericaSpeaks and now director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse) offers seven field-tested strategies… - Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home
In “Slow Democracy,” community leader (and NCDD Sustaining Member) Susan Clark and democracy scholar Woden Teachout document the range of ways that citizens around… - The Manager as Facilitator of Dialogue
NCDD member Joe Raelin, Northeastern University – D’Amore-McKim School of Business, contributed the following paper using NCDD’s Add-A-Resource form… Given… - Anne M Jess -The Doodle Biz, Graphic Recorder
Anne M. Jess is a graphic recorder based in Seattle. She has been practicing the art of Graphic Recording since 2006. During that time, she received her MA in Organizational…
Popular Categories and Tags
For over 10 years now, NCDD’s leaders have been collecting the best resources we can find on dialogue and deliberation — and developing some of our own. The categories and tags help you find the resources you need to practice, teach and research this work, like…
- Participatory Practices, details on over 150 tools and methods used for public participation
- Big Picture Tools, resources that help you understand the broader D&D field
- Case Studies & Stories, nearly 100 articles, books, and reports that share success stories and case studies
- Great for Public Managers, which features resources created specifically for public decision-makers
- Assessment Tools, where we’ve collected 40 tools to help you measure your success
- D&D Methods, meaty descriptions of dozens of the most well-known dialogue and deliberation approaches, many written and submitted to NCDD by the creator of the method
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The online Resource Center of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), at www.ncdd.org/rc, is your gateway to over 2,600 resources on group process… dialogue guides, D&D methods, videos, case studies, evaluation tools, articles, books, programs and more. Includes NCDD’s must-see beginner’s guide, D&D glossary and Resource Guide on Public Engagement.
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These resource lists combine tags and categories to display resources our members and site visitors look for regularly. You can also use the sidebar feature that says “I’m looking for…” to search within 1 category and 1 tag.