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Moving from proposal to consensus

1. formulate proposal

Here is my proposal to the proposal. It consists of several parts that have proven valuable in my own experience.

🏷️ Name of the proposal

At the point a catchy term so that when you dig it out you catch the memory of it right away.

🧑🤝🧑 Who

What is meant here is who is actually putting forward this proposal. Does the motivation perhaps lie with someone else? Does one follow an assumption of another person or group or is it already oneself.

🍰 would like What

Action is meant here. Something where one seeks fellow campaigners. What it's all about.

🎉 What for

Once you've made it, what's different? The indirect, ultimate success. How do you recognise that?

🛠️ will join in:

Directly, you can consider the people who participate. Thus, it is the people who find a common driver in the proposal.

🎁 also have something from it:

In positive terms, the people "affected" by the proposal, who should therefore be included in the decision.

🔍 Review date or frequency

No decision or agreement should be permanent. Therefore, the scheduled review is directly part of the proposal itself.

2. joint consensus decision

The proposer invites the persons affected by the decision or agreement to decide together with them by consensus.

Present proposal

The first step is to present the proposal and clarify any ambiguities of basic understanding.

Think about the proposal

Each person thinks about his or her own voting behaviour. There are three possibilities:

👍 Thumbs up - "Yup, I'm in favour. Thank you"

🤙 (emoji missing) Thumbs to the side - "I'll go along with it, but I have some reservations that I'd like to express".

👎🎁 Thumbs down - "I'm missing something specific to be able to agree to the proposal. Happy to make a gift of it and make it clear what I mean."

If you make a round you go from the bottom to the top. Therefore, you ask people with your thumbs down and collect their insights. According to James Priest, "It's not either or, it's both and more." Then the question is whether this objection can be directly inserted into the proposal, which leads to a vote in which exactly this objection disappears.

In this way, all objections could be removed. The proposal will be reworded in this way and thus a jointly prepared proposal will be found which can then also lead to an agreement or decision together.

If the objections are too large and unclear to be incorporated directly into the proposal, it may be necessary to take another iteration.