In contemporary societies there is a growing need to coordinate and legitimize different perspectives. Instead of a dialogical effort for consensus polarizing communication still prevails. The legitimacy of formal political institutions and conventional forms of political participation is in decline; increasingly publicly expressed people's need for a greater influence on social developments reveals a deficit in approaches how to include them more actively in discussions on complex social problems. This is particularly challenging in Slovenia as a post-transition country with a relatively short democratic tradition, a history of unique Yugoslav system of self-management and underdeveloped deliberative theory and practice. In this presentation (that we held in the context of the International Learning Village on participatory processes) we presented hypotheses about the dialogue capacity within the Slovenian political sphere. The presentation was followed by a comprehensive discussion of cases from other European countries.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 32152925Project team member Marjeta Novak was the initiator, organizer and one the facilitators of the two day group participatory process, Strenghts of Slovenia, the purpose of which was to identify the strengths and potentials of Slovenia from a historical, geographical and social viewpoint with the help of action learning, systemic thinking methods such as Collective Story Harvesting , World Café, Pro Action Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter. The meeting was conducted by an international team of professional facilitators of group work. The event was attended by 51 Slovenes and 21 foreigners.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods