The Kits

Ten free, open kits for running your own conversation — a dinner, a block circle, a classroom hour, a folding-table clinic, an all-candidates assembly, and more. Nothing behind any kit convenes it, attends it, or shows up to run it: pick one up, change whatever doesn't fit your room, and run it in your own name. Every kit ends in the same harvest — a vision, a complaint, a nomination — which you can read about at the Harvest.

• Vision Dinner

  A 40-minute dinner-table script for four to eight people — three questions, one shared harvest.

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• The After-Service Three Questions

  A 20-minute kit for any congregation, any faith — three questions asked right after the gathering ends.

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• FOUND A BLOCK CIRCLE

  Start a ten-household circle on your own street — a doorstep card, a first meeting, and how to keep it alive.

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• A Story-Collection Evening

  Students (or any younger group) interview elders in pairs — the interview guide, the consent, and the harvest.

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• DEBATE IN A BOX

  A citizen-run, all-candidates assembly for one ward — every candidate invited on identical, equal terms.

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• CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY IN A BOX

  One evening, one real question, the disciplines of a citizens' assembly compressed into a room any host can run.

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• ONLINE ANNEX

  Run the Citizens' Assembly in a Box on a video call your room already uses — no new platform needed.

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• The Futures Hour

  One class period: students write what they see ahead for their city, then hand in a nameless harvest.

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• Complaint Clinic

  A folding-table clinic in a lobby people already pass through — turning “what's broken?” into written cards.

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• The Orientation Table

  A campus-club kit for the first week of school: a table sheet, a thirty-second door script, and a one-project menu any club can adopt.

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Not a kit for a room you're gathering — something to ask for before you gather anyone: the Civic Hour, a small personal ask for a few hours off in October, plus a one-page policy any workplace, union, school, congregation, or association can adopt this month.

Outgrown a room? See choosing tools for bigger rooms — 86 deliberation and civic-tech tools checked live, and why the honest answer for an online assembly is mostly not a platform at all.