Published
2016-03-02
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A Blueprint for Collaborative Lawmaking
Miki Kashtan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/ijps.v3i1.118
Keywords: Center for Efficient Collaboration, child custody, Convergent Facilitation, Minnesota legislature, human needs, noncontroversial essence
Abstract
Miki Kashtan, a consultant at the Center for Efficient Collaboration, describes how her Convergent Facilitation method of collaborative decision-making brought together contentiously divided stakeholders in an effort to redraft child custody legislation in Minnesota, resulting in a near-unanimous new bill that completely changes the approach to child custody. This breakthrough surprised many. It depended on reframing the goals of the legislative effort to find legislation that all could wholeheartedly embrace, based on what mattered to all parties. A commitment to those goals carried the group through two years of an intensive and yet non-adversarial process.
