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This describes a workshop approach.  It can also [[Ritual dissent asynchronously|be run asynchronously in a virtual environment]]

This describes a workshop approach.  It can also [[Ritual dissent asynchronously|be run asynchronously in a virtual environment]]

Ritual Dissent is a workshop method designed to test and enhance proposals, stories, ideas or anything else by subjecting them to [[Ritual|ritualised]] dissent (challenge) or assent (positive alternatives). In all cases it is a forced listening technique, not a dialogue or discourse. The basic approach involves a spokesperson presenting a series of ideas to a group who receives them in silence. The spokesperson then dons a mask, or turns their chair, so that their back is to the audience and listens in silence while the group either attack (dissent) or provide alternative proposals (assent). The ritual of donning the mask or turning the chair de-personalizes the process and the group setting (others will be subject to the same process) means that the attack or alternative is not personal, but supportive. Listening in silence without eye contact increases listening quality. Overall plans that emerge from the process are more [[Resilience|resilient]] than consensus-based techniques, while conflict increases the amount of information taken into account at the same time as it is being constrained by the ritual character of the technique.   

Ritual Dissent is a workshop method designed to test and enhance proposals, stories, ideas or anything else by subjecting them to [[Ritual|ritualised]] dissent (challenge) or assent (positive alternatives). One of the points of ritual dissent is not to be reasonable. To make it more of a game, less personal. In all cases it is a forced listening technique, not a dialogue or discourse. The basic approach involves a spokesperson presenting a series of ideas to a group who receives them in silence. The spokesperson then dons a mask, or turns their chair, so that their back is to the audience and listens in silence while the group either attack (dissent) or provide alternative proposals (assent). The ritual of donning the mask or turning the chair de-personalizes the process and the group setting (others will be subject to the same process) means that the attack or alternative is not personal, but supportive. Listening in silence without eye contact increases listening quality. Overall plans that emerge from the process are more [[Resilience|resilient]] than consensus-based techniques, while conflict increases the amount of information taken into account at the same time as it is being constrained by the ritual character of the technique.   

==Name and history==

==Name and history==