WELCOME TO OUR NEW WISE DEMOCRACY CARD DECK!
On this page you’ll find everything you need to download pdfs of the full deck and its accompanying materials.
Use these cards to support your own process as a campaign designer, public servant, visionary or change agent. Use them to enhance the power of collective action and the immense potential for collective wisdom among us all.
Sow the seeds of a wiser, more inclusive and participatory approach to governance. The pattern cards reflect many years of accumulated experience and deep thinking aimed at evoking and engaging the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole. Much of the work we all do depends on conversations – quality interchanges by which we together envision, shape and begin to enact the world we desire – and these cards will help.
This breakthrough Wise Democracy Card Deck 2.0 can be YOURS!
DOWNLOAD
Use the links below to download our complete Wise Democracy Deck and its associated documents:
File 1 – Card Deck – 105 cards
File 2 – Backside in black and white
File 3 – Foldout (Pattern List and the Category Questions)
DOWNLOAD the German version of:
The 3D Wise Democracy Model
> Das 3D Modell der weisen Demokratie – 1 S.
Wise Democracy’s Most Fundamental Principle
> Das grundlegende Prinzip der weisen Demokratie – 12 S.
Note:
The resolution is 300 ppi – standard-quality printing.
What you get with each Card Deck…
- Card Deck of 105 cards
(96 Pattern cards / 7 Categorical Question cards / 2 Fill-out-yourself pattern cards) - Foldout with an overview of all the patterns and category questions
- Booklet explaining how to use the cards, important wise democracy theory and a mind-expanding glossary.
The purchasable printed decks come packaged in an elegantly labeled white box, suitable for sharing with colleagues and carrying to meetings and events. Here we provide you with the downloadable label, but you’ll have to get your own box!
Key to the Cards
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We are delighted to share this resource to enhance collective wisdom and our collective capacity to deal with our affairs more adequately. 30 years of studying collective intelligence, wisdom and action and thousands of hours of mostly volunteer work brought this Wise Democracy Pattern Language Website and Deck into being. Expenses were covered by us personally and the fundraising efforts of the Co-Intelligence Institute. We joyfully offer our deck as a gift to be freely used by anyone and everyone. At the same time, we ask for donations to support and nurture our work to continue, to make it possible for us to keep on researching, offering webinars and hosting this website to sustain this Wise Democracy Project in its mission to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole.
So while you are welcome to print it out for free, we would really appreciate any donation you are able to make. We are registered in Oregon USA as a non-profit corporation with tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status.
Grateful for this amazing work. Thank you Tom. We haven’t talked in a while. I am now involved in commonsengine.org and governance is such a key piece. Grateful.
Goosebumps! You have created a treasure. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Tom! Hope you’re well …
The cards are so beatiful and useful. I loved them!
I work at Câmara dos Deputados, in Brazil (your US House of Representatives) with Education for Democracy and conscious citizenship. We develop and offer many courses, events anda projects on this political issues having the legislative power as context. We offer educational programs for college people, teachers, elementary an highschool students. Playing with the cards somewhere on their journeys would be awesome! Have you considered havings the cards translated to portuguese? I think I have volunteered myself to do this some five years ago with Denise Curi, from São Paulo, but I don’t know if the subject has evolved.
Thank you Corina! It sounds like you are in a good position to use these cards and we’d love to talk with you and get feedback about people’s responses. But these cards didn’t exist five years ago (they were first envisioned in 2016), and I don’t believe I know Denise Curl. I am wondering if you volunteered to translate the GroupWorks group process pattern language cards http://groupworksdeck.org into Portuguese? That great card deck (which I played a part in co-creating) was released in 2011, if I recall correctly. Thousands of those card decks are in use around the world, helping their users plan, facilitate, and review high quality conversations, meetings, and conferences. Our wise democracy pattern language card decks – which focus on generating collective wisdom – especially in large governance and political systems – are just being released for sale this month (July 2019), although earlier versions were freely downloadable in pdf form from this website. If you are still volunteering to do a translation, we should talk! 🙂 email me at cii@igc.org.
Great, Gail! I look forward to more. Let us know if there are any pattern pages on which your groups or resources should be listed as “Examples and Resources”. We could probably list on 3-6 patterns if it’s relevant. Coheartedly, Tom
Your cards are beautiful! I want to download now and will purchase a deck soon. I am part of a growing ecosystem ….tomorrow makers, Reimagining World Game, and Gamechangers. As we progress we should stay in conversation with each other.
Dear Gail, I changed the download file – this might be easier for printing yourself – with 4 cards on a sheet. Kind regards, Martin