What to avoid with respect to openness and learning?
What to avoid:

“Window dressing” public exercises go through the motions required by law or the dictates of PR before announcing a pre-determined outcome. Participants get on soapboxes or are repressed; fight or conform; get overridden or overwhelmed; and are definitely not listening to each other. Facilitation is weak or too directive, interfering with people’s ability to communicate with each other openly, adjust their stances, and make progress. Assertive, mainstream, and official voices dominate. Available information is biased, scanty, overwhelming, or inaccessible — and experts lecture rather than discuss and clarify. Lack of time or inflexible process make it impossible to deal with the true complexity of the issue. Organizers and facilitators are too busy, biased, or insecure to properly review and evaluate what they’ve done.
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Public Engagement »Public Engagement
Core Principles for Public Engagement »Core Principles for Public Engagement
(4) Openness and Learning »(4) Openness and Learning
What to avoid with respect to openness and learning?
Assertive, mainstream, and official voices dominate »Assertive, mainstream, and official voices dominate
Biased, scanty, overwhelming, or inaccessible information »Biased, scanty, overwhelming, or inaccessible information
Facilitation is weak or too directive »Facilitation is weak or too directive
Lack of time or inflexible process »Lack of time or inflexible process
Organizers and facilitators don't review and evaluate properly »Organizers and facilitators don't review and evaluate properly
Participants get on soapboxes or are repressed »Participants get on soapboxes or are repressed
Window dressing and going through motions »Window dressing and going through motions
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