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Keypad Polling Walt Roberts
I am board member of The Performance Center, a partner of
Transformation Systems International and on the core team of the
Transpartisan Alliance.  I've had extensive experience working with
groups, institutions and communities that are working to generate their
future together strategically, intentionally and collaboratively. I
offer innovative and unique approaches to the design and orchestration
of alliances, coalitions, forums, conferences, keypad polling assisted
deliberation and decision making, citizen engagement processes, and
generative change initiatives.  I am one of the inventors of the
Integral Forum Design concept.

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The Services I provide:

• Breakthrough Meetings with Keypad Polling; Overcoming the normal limits of  large-group process with the purposeful and expert use of electronic, audience response, keypad polling technology
• Sourcing Circles and Collaborative Design Services; Bringing transformation, sourcing/presencing, and generative  frameworks and processes to the work of any collaborative design team 
  as they co-create any dialogue and deliberation process, event,
  meeting, summit, change initiative, alliance development and/or
  coalition building
• Generative Process Design, Orchestration and Facilitation; Frame, theme, purpose and process design, orchestration and facilitation for strategic planning meetings, conferences, summits,
  town halls, public hearings,  open houses, community meetings and all
  sorts of large-group dialogue, deliberation and decision making events
• Transboundary Convening Design; Special services and tools for bringing disparate and divided groups together to find common ground, build bridges and forge unlikely partnerships.
• Alliance and Coalition Design, Facilitation and Development; Applying generative process services to the creation of more formal and enduring entities.
• On-Line Networking, Information Sharing and Collaboration Integration; Identifying and implementing the right set of (existing, popular and usually free) internet based spaces, services and tools to work in
  concert with face to face meetings and vice verse.
• Integral Forum Design;  Connecting, integrating and aligning  multiple conveners and conferences over time to make critical connections within and between
  topic "silos" (all of the previously described services come in to play
  for this).
• Client and Project Examples.

What I Attend To and Intend To Impact

• Context: Ability and means to see the larger system (Whole Systems/Integral/ The Human Commons)
• Complexity: Ability to see patterns and appreciate multiple perspectives on the topics of common concern. (The simplicity on the other side of complexity)
• Civility: Transcending feelings and tones of aggression, hostility and divisiveness ( Communicating and relating responsibly and authentically)
• Citizen Empowerment: Awakening and enabling the citizen side of citizen/consumer (Engaged, Leadership, Agency)
• Community and Civic Agency:  Enhancing our sense of relatedness and influence in regard to our place and  those who share it (Structure for Belonging, Social Capital)
• Creative Convening: The art and science of inviting, conversing and  making connections (Creating Opportunities to Cooperate and Collaborate)
• Creative Partnerships: Integrating the profound and the practical processes for "Generative" interaction and collaborative partnerships (Dialogue, Deliberation and Decision Making)
• Cooperative Solutions, Governance and Public Policy:   Whole systems solutions, projects, programs and policies that are elegant, workable and sustainable answers/responses to wicked
  challenges and opportunities.

What I'm About:

• Supporting creative community connections, conversations, cooperation and  collaboration
• Aligning connections, conversations, intentions and actions to common vision/purpose / goals
• Fostering citizen engagement and empowerment for greater civic agency
• Encouraging transboundary (bridging divides) connections and collaborations
• Moving Movements;  The watershed planning, sustainability and transpartisan political movements for example
• Integrating profound transformation systems and social technologies with the existing "practical" ones.
• Causing breakthrough conversations, processes and results
• Catalyzing the sustainable generation of social, economic and environmental well-being.... for all.

What I am Frequently Invited to Work On:

• Public Forums and Citizen Involvement Events
• Association Meetings or Conferences
• Group Dialogue, Deliberation, Problem Solving and Decision Meetings
• Community Planning Meetings
• Transportation or Land Use Planning Events
• Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Trainings
• Strategic and Transformation Planning Events
• Brain-storming, and Creative Sessions
• Search Conferences and Visioning Events
• Charrettes and Collaborative Design Events
• Focus Groups and Group Dialogue Sessions
• Group Assessment and Team Building Events
• Product Design, Evaluation and JAD Processes
• Organizing, Mobilization and Action Research Processes

I have done some work with  for-profit corporations but I have spent the majority of my energy working with governments, associations, non-profits, schools and community groups.  The topics and issues have
been wide ranging and include transportation and land use planning, tax
reform, school-to-work issues, economic development, sustainable
fisheries, fish and wildlife habitat conservation, ecosystem based
resource management (Columbia Basin), watershed planning, community
development, education reform, workforce development, corporate social
responsibility, sustainable coffee, affordable housing, public health,
and others.

My current effort and focus is on the following three things:

• Transpartisan Politics: Organizing, coordinating and catalyzing a transpartisan movement to shift  our polarizing win-lose political game to a more respectful,
  civil and cooperative win-win political game.
• Transboundary Collaboration:  Advancing innovation in the design of transboundary (bridging divides) processes for breakthrough cooperation, collaboration and partnerships.
• Transformation Technologies:  Effectively applying profound (social and performance) transformation technologies to the existing "practical" civic dialogue and
  deliberation processes (community meetings, policy summits,  town hall
  meetings, public hearings, etc.)

Walt Roberts 1722 NE Clackamas Street
Portland, Oregon 97232