Facilitation Stories

In this episode Nikki talks to Suzannah Lansdell about Public Dialogue.  Suzannah is a  freelance facilitator who also advises organisations on how to do public and stakeholder dialogue, particularly in the science and technology sector for Sciencewise.   They talk about Public Dialogue as a process bringing together members of the public with specialists and policy makers to discuss complex and controversial topics and gather public insights on the issues without necessarily coming to firm recommendations; “this is this is not a Focus Group. It's not kind of top of mind views. It's digging behind that”  How members of the public are engaged to take part; The role of a facilitator in Public Dialogue and how it’s different from other types of facilitation; Some recent topics for Public Dialogue including Embryo Research, Future Flight and the role of Data; The experience of participants and how this differs from other consultative processes;  “one of the key things about Public Dialogue as you give