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Introduction:
Laura Chasin, director of the Public Conversations Project, recommends
that dialogue groups adopt concrete ground rules.
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This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).
Ground Rules
Laura Chasin
Director of the Public Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
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I don't like
vague ground rules. You know, we will be respectful, because how do you tell? I
want to be able to see it. I want to be clear that if someone interrupts, if
someone asks a rhetorical question, someone makes an attribution, someone
attacks rather than asks questions, and if I don't have the ground rules handy
then how can I tell? Our standard PCP ground rules are very tight, very
behavioral. It just seems easier, all the way around. The one we did have to
continually renegotiate was confidentiality, because at the beginning, even the
fact of the meeting was secret. They couldn't tell anybody that they were coming
to the meeting. There was a lot of renegotiation of that, and gradual
loosening over time.
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