Use these three DIY facilitation plans to organize your own small-group exploratory discussions to explore the connections of Truth and Democracy

How is truth important for a healthy democracy? What are the sources for getting and testing the truth? Where and how do untruths threaten the health of democracy? And what can we do, as a society and as individuals, to meet these challenges? These facilitation plans, presented as a three-part series, are intended to help you both collaboratively explore these questions and imagine possible responses to them. Each plan focuses on different ways we gain access to the truth: via the news media, science, and education.

Facilitation Plan One: Truth & Democracy – The News Media

This discussion is designed to help you and your conversation partners explore the role(s) the news media (including social media) plays, and could play, in connecting truth and democracy. What are some of the growing challenges facing the relationship between the news media and democracy–and how might we meet those challenges?

Facilitation Plan Two: Truth & Democracy – Science

This discussion is intended to help you to explore the role(s) that science can play in connecting truth and democracy. What are some of the growing challenges facing the relationship between science and democracy–and how might we meet those challenges?

Facilitation Plan Three: Truth & Democracy – Education

This discussion is designed to help you explore the ways that education and democracy are intertwined. What are some of the growing challenges facing the relationship between education and democracy–and how might we meet those challenges?