Case Studies, Articles & Testimonials.
A collection of some of the references, case studies and testimonials related to the impact and efficacy of LDD across a variety of sectors in the global arena.
“While many people of good will and good heart have come up with excellent ideas for helping our troubled world, there is often an unbreachable chasm between intent and implementation. The Lewis Deep Democracy method presents intriguing philosophy and the means to put it into action.”
- Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Archbishop & Nobel Prize laureate
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An Experiment in Therapeutic planning: Learning with the Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw First Nations
A Thesis by Afrab Erfan using the LDD Methodology. Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (planning). THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Lewis Deep Democracy and Crime
An experiment in Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa with Myrna Lewis and Peter Jordi. Lewis Deep Democracy asserts that real wisdom lies in the unconscious of a group and through a facilitated process answers can be uncovered and interventions initiated where the group can begin resolving and healing their own issues.
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Understanding ‘Roles’ and The impact on a culture of Safety
Written by Georgina Veldhorst. The alternative view is often a doorway to achieving a greater understanding of an issue, reaching a better decision, and enhancing the culture of safety.
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Keeping In Touch magazine
An article by Elise Hawthorne on Myrna Lewis and Lewis Deep Democracy. Maybe if we all learnt to practise the Lewis Method of Deep-Democracy, we could inch closer towards, “imagine all the people living life in peace,” as John Lennon asked us to do so many years ago.
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Lewis Deep Democracy and Rahamim
Written by Roz Townsend. It was my interest in a new model of decision-making that had me in Sydney last week studying a United Nations award-winning model called Deep Democracy.Decisions and how we make them can have a crucial impact on our future. Even daily decisions, from whose turn it is to wash up to which candidate gets our vote, are woven into the fabric of our lives.
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Confronting Collective Traumas: an exploration of therapeutic planning
Written by Afrab Erfan. This paper details an exploration in therapeutic planning that took place in a small Indigenous community in Canada. The researcher engaged in exploratory action research that intentionally prioritized healing of collective traumas. With this intention, a series of community planning meetings were conducted, using a facilitation method known as Deep Democracy. Modest but promising therapeutic effects are documented in this paper, using various measures of success.
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Conversations Across the Economic Divide
Written by Aftab Erfan. Earlier this year I got an invitation to travel to South Africa and experience something called the Conversation across the Socio-Economic Divide. The invitation came from Myrna Lewis, a South African psychologist who has developed an advanced facilitation methodology called Lewis Deep Democracy for working with groups.
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The Civis Project (Sweden)
An article by Belamie Peddle. To meet the challenge of upskilling people, it was decided that everyone would be taught essential communication skills with a focus on meetings. So people diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, politicians, and social workers involved in the CIivis Project met for meetings. Two Lewis Deep Democracy facilitators enabled the dialogue and provided a theoretical understanding, cores steps, diagnostics and support.
“Lewis Deep Democracy’s contribution to an international experts meeting on transformational learning processes in a complex environment was essential”
- Robin Poppe, Chief Learning & Communication at I.L.O. (a United Nations agency)
