A support facilitator studying psychology, our first team member based in NSW and a brand new participant recruitment coordinator... meet the newest additions to the MosaicLab team: Polo, Polly and Gus! Learn more about this trio of terrific team members and gain some insights into who they REALLY are through their answers to our fast five questions!
How should we plan for the new energy future while providing affordable services that meet changing customer and community needs? Two representative ‘Voice of the Customer’ panels in Queensland answered this question. Randomly selected, everyday customers deliberated and agreed on recommendations that electricity distributors Ergon Energy Network and Energex used to prepare Regulatory Proposals for the Australian Energy Regulator (AER). Delve into a tale of two deliberative customer panels, and gain ideas and insights you can draw on for your next project.
We believe in supporting emerging and underserved people and communities to have deeper conversations that lead to stronger democracies. ML Giving is the new name of the not-for-profit part of MosaicLab - a banner for the work we do that gives back. We’re focussing on furthering community inclusion and action beyond just getting input and instead moving into enabling local decision-making. Explore the principles ML Giving will operate under, and the kind of projects and conversations we’re supporting.
Jemena Electricity Network has been implementing a comprehensive engagement program for the organisation's 2026-2031 Regulatory Proposal, employing a multi-dimensional approach to allow customers direct influence over proposed future pricing and services. MosaicLab codesigned and lead the facilitation of the process, that included a deliberative panel and brings diverse customer, stakeholder, and industry perspectives into the decision-making process.
As part of the development of Ausgrid's 2024-2029 regulatory submission, two randomly selected customer panels deliberated over a collective 10 full days. The panels, facilitated by MosaicLab and Gauge Consulting, considered how Ausgrid should look to the future while remaining fair to customers today. Ausgrid's three-year engagement process allowed customers to influence what Ausgrid spends customers money on, giving them a rare insight and influence over the cost of electricity, an issue that directly impacts the lives of everyday people.
The recent MAV Councillor Leadership Conference featured a packed program of speakers discussing everything from ethical leadership, cyber safety and communication behaviours to leading with emotional intelligence, governance and motivating change through values-based messaging. MosaicLab was on board as one of the event sponsors and we value and appreciate any opportunity to connect with local government leaders.
We are thrilled to feature on a recent episode of the Engaging Local Government Leaders podcast called GovLove. Our Directors Nicole Hunter and Keith Greaves had a transcontinental chat with USA-based host Kirsten Wyatt to talk about the book we released last year: Facilitating Deliberation – A Practical Guide. Listen here!
Turns out there IS such a thing as a free lunch. Our monthly Lunch and Learn community engagement webinar series resumes in February. These free sessions run online for just one hour and are presented by MosaicLab engagement experts. Learn, upskill and connect. Open to engagement and facilitation professionals of any level.
2022 was the year of the big MosaicLab book. Copies of 'Facilitating Deliberation – A Practical Guide' have sold around the world and the positive feedback has us feeling equal parts humbled and ecstatic! Stuck for a gift for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life? Digital and print copies are available now.
New year, new skills, fresh insights from the experts: and it won’t cost you a cent. Get ready to be rewarded and inspired in 2023, with free monthly learning and connection opportunities for engagement and facilitation professionals. MosaicLab’s Lunch and Learn webinar series goes to the next level in 2023.
Need a break from the holiday hectics? Take some ‘me time’ and set up your 2023 for success with one of MosaicLab’s online, beginner short courses. Learn the art of facilitation, the seven steps to simple engagement planning, how to deliver a successful deliberative engagement process and how to handle high emotion and outrage in groups. Boost your toolkit and learn from specialist trainers with this easy, valuable learning.
Keeping up with all the technical language used in the world of ‘deliberative democracy’ can be tough, so we have created a dictionary to define and unpack these terms. We hope that it launches a central reference hub for terminology across the sector, and that this helps bring some clarity to new and old enthusiasts of the field. We plan on building the dictionary with input from you. Download the first edition for free and let us know which words should be added.
Deliberative democracy processes like citizens’ assemblies and mini-publics are bringing a welcome dose of thoughtful consideration to some of the world’s most challenging and divisive issues. Go on a trip around the globe with us in this blog post as we highlight some great examples and share some fascinating data from the OECD’s Catching the Deliberative Wave research.
The MosaicLab team enjoyed three days of stimulating discussion, catching up with old engagement friends and making new ones plus a bit of dancing and spinning the prize wheel at the recent IAP2 Australasia conference in Melbourne. We were humbled to take home two awards and one highly commended mention at this year’s Core Values Awards.
MosaicLab’s all-time deliberative democracy pre- and post-participant survey results from 2017 to 2022 have been analysed to reveal what impact this work has on people’s knowledge, their involvement in public affairs and their trust in the auspicing organisations who take this plunge. We are excited to share these results with everyone as we continue to learn, adapt and explore what genuine, high-influence engagement can achieve.
