Building Bridges Boulder Chamber: Norms

Thank you for participating in Building Bridges: How do we listen to each other? City of Boulder is glad to include your voice as we work with the community toward a more productive atmosphere of civic dialogue.

During in-person Building Bridges meetings, community members brainstormed norms that ought to guide public participation in Boulder. Across the seven meetings, we heard recurring themes and discussed the benefits and tensions around each one.

Share how comfortable you would be with Boulder enacting the following norms for civic conversations across the platforms in the Communication Landscape pictured above.

1.

Listening: Practice attentive, active listening with empathy, open-mindedness, and respect.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

2.

Disagreement: Engage in respectful disagreement; recognize that some discomfort is necessary.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

3.

Personal accountability: Be accountable to your own perspectives and biases--own your intentions and the impact of what you say.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

4.

Curiosity: Approach with a spirit of curiosity, risk, and innovation; focus on possibilities, be willing to try something new and compromise.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

5.

Power. Acknowledge power imbalances and speak into power.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

6.

Co-creation: Build relationships while building ideas, change statements to questions, equal opportunity to speak.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

7.

Common ground for action: Identify commonalities, share goals/values as starting point. Orient to big picture context.

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I am opposed to this idea.

I need more discussion.

I fully endorse this idea.

8. If you are opposed to or have concerns about any of the ideas above, please share more.

9. What ideas are missing from this list?

10. Which statement doesn't fully capture the theme as you might have hoped it would? What would you add or change?

11. How do we activate these norms in the community? How do we get there from here?

12. What else would you like to share?

13. Your input will be added to the input of other participating community members and synthesized by a group of volunteers. They will work toward a plan for enacting this new culture. Would you like to be contacted about being a part of these next steps in the process? If so, please provide your name, email and phone number.

The following questions are optional and help us understand who we are hearing from in the community and what gaps we may have in our input.

16. What race or ethnicity do you most identify with?

17. How would you describe your annual household income?