Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus, Majority vote, blocks

[Kay Argyle (Kay.Argyle]

"Pro-active facilitation and the Delphi Method could get us over some of
these humps."

Explanation of "Delphi Method" please? And how would it be applied in a
cohousing setting?

There appears to be a technique called by that name used in the military to
get experts to converge on a recommendation, which entails a panel providing
anonymous feedback to multiple drafts of written analyses. ("Anonymous" and
"written" would neither go over well in my community.)

Most of what I found when I googled the term "Delphi Method" were rants
about consensus and facilitation being "communist" crowd-manipulation
techniques to frogmarch discussion groups into reaching a predetermined
conclusion by ridiculing other points of view.

Kay
Wasatch Commons
SLC

... where, speaking of predetermined outcomes, after months of public
meetings, in which both urban and rural voters all over the state, liberal
and conservative alike, all trashed the Legislature's preferred "pizza
slice" redistricting plan (designed to split apart and dilute urban
Democratic strongholds), in favor of "doughnut hole" maps, the Legislature
is approving -- you guessed it -- a pizza slice map.