This campaign and
net site is based on the idea that with good methods and voluntary activity of
interested citizens we can point out the long-term goals for the Norwegian
society. Anticipated goals were
something like sustainable natural resources and greater joy and meaning of
life. The goals should be what the Norwegian people will ask their leaders to
follow up with all their might.
How does it work?
The method used is a dialogue where people can spontaneously inspire each other, build energy, when the conversation takes off people feel that we exceed ourselves. With dialogue everyone wins and no one looses. The dialogue method has 3 phases. The creative phase 1 is a brainstorming where all ideas are allowed and it is forbidden to say ÒbutÓ. In the analytic phase 2 the people put feelings aside and use logical reasoning and all available knowledge from all the participants to critically examine the ideas. The decision making phase 3, participants use both intuition (feelings) and reason to cluster and rank the ideas and to formulate the final propositions.
Time schedule and some
results:
1 Start-up (spring 2008) establishing website, choose software, the first groups are established and start working, contact other organizations and established our own network
2 The big conversation: (autumn 2008) reflective workshops scattered nationwide.
The resulting goals were, here with percent agreement in a later Gallup poll:
*Doubling quality of life (happiness ) 84% agree
*Visionary and cooperative leadership 91% agree
*Ecological economy (nature and people in sustainable balance) 94% agree
3 Presentation (spring
2009) The final highest voted ideas for the next century are presented to the
politicians and communicated to the media just before the election of the
parliament members.
Read more at http://www.hundreaarsmaalene.no
(In Norwegian).
The initiative
was taken by Ingrid Stange, Henrik
B. Tschudi, and Dag Andersen