What is Society s Breakthrough?
It is an innovative way to create an inclusive, wise, creative voice of WE THE PEOPLE. This approach uses “Dynamic Facilitation” and a series of randomly selected citizens to establish a new national and international conversation where “everyone” visits together about our most pressing issues and reaches points of consensus. Each year twenty-four registered voters are randomly selected in a lottery to form a Citizens Wisdom Council. This Wisdom Council is a symbol of “the people of the United States.” It meets for one week to choose issues, talk about them and determine consensus statements. To assure creative conversation and unanimous conclusions, the meetings are aided by a dynamic facilitator. At the end of the week, the Wisdom Council presents the statements to the nation in a new ceremony, a State of the Union address from We the People to the people. The Citizens Wisdom Council then disbands permanently. The following year a new Council is randomly selected. 2. Why do we need t
