Step 1. Use this "Concise Guide" which includes a 2 1/2 hr. Transpartisan Salon meeting format.
Step 2. Print and distribute this TA Wallet Card.
Goals
Facilitate a healthy conversation across traditional social divides.
Search for solutions that reflect the aspirations and concerns of all.
Use conflict as a sensor to identify important issues that need addressing, recognizing that relationship-building takes time, patience, and good will.
Catalyze a shift in the political culture from destructive polarization to a more respectful, responsible and cooperative search for solutions.
Benefits of Participation
Resource Sharing – We provide a place where neighbors can begin connecting resources and skills that can be shared in event of need.
Co-creative Solutions – We provide a place where average citizens can innovate local solutions and policy ideas, then share them online for the benefit of other groups and officials overwhelmed with complexity.
Citizen Education – We provide a place for participants of all backgrounds to begin weaving together their various “partial truths” to assemble a clearer picture of a “fuller, more whole truth.
Citizens in Recovery – We provide a place where there is no blame or shame, a place where we can go to heal our divided families, communities, and country, one conversation at a time.
Speaking Truth About Power – We provide a safe place for people from all sides to come together to begin exploring the taboo subject of “power,” a necessary step toward empowerment.
We are a network of networks – group of groups, party of parties – without formal power and without leaders, aiming to connect people and ideas freely across political, religious, racial and economic lines. We are a self-organized, open source, open participation, open space conversation focused on connectivity, curiosity, learning and understanding, rather than agreement or consensus.
Starting a Monthly "Transpartisan Salon"
The intention is to authentically welcome and value as much political difference – i.e. collective wisdom and intelligence – as possible (you know you’ve succeeded if the group is NOT just the “choir” speaking to itself.)
Dealing with Difference
We employ five simple tools called the “transpartisan toolbox” to keep our conversations on track:
ANNOUNCING: Two new books that articulate the foundation -- On Governance -- and the strategic framework -- Reuniting America -- for an authentically transpartisan movement-of-movements in America.
REUNITING AMERICA: A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game, by Joseph McCormick and Steve Bhaerman, is the story of the eight year journey of a "serious citizen" on a quest to discern the principles and practices for transforming the political game from win/lose to win/win. It is based on lessons learned by convening top national leaders as well as average citizens from all sides in retreats, town halls and house parties. It is intended to direct attention to the early signs of a new, cooperative form of political behavior emerging in America (beginning with green-progressives working with “conservatarians” to localize economic and political decision-making.)
ON GOVERNANCE, Cor Publicum: The Evolution of Res Publica, by Dr. Franca Baron, "...introduces a fundamentally new social contract. It is a pathway into the center of a radically new system of Law and governance. It is best comprehended with the intelligence of the Heart.”
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The term “Transpartisan” has emerged to provide a meaningful alternative to “Bipartisan” and “Nonpartisan.” Bipartisanship is limited to a debate among two political viewpoints or entities striving for compromise solutions. Nonpartisanship, on the other hand, tends to deny the existence of differing viewpoints. In contrast, transpartisanship recognizes the validity of all points of view and values a constructive dialogue aimed at arriving at creative, integrated, and therefore, breakthrough solutions that meet the needs of all sides.
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