Stiftung Mitarbeit — Workshop-Koffer Bürgerbeteiligung
Summary
A German-language downloadable kit with timed workshop plans, visualisation methods, and printable worksheets for citizen-participation workshops, published by the Stiftung Mitarbeit (Bonn-based foundation for citizen participation and associative self-organisation) as the working toolbox for civic-participation moderators.
Body
The Stiftung Mitarbeit’s Workshop-Koffer Bürgerbeteiligung is the Bonn foundation’s flagship workshop-design resource: a downloadable kit with timed workshop plans, visualisation methods (Visualisierung — flipchart, pinboard, moderation cards), and printable worksheets for citizen-participation moderators who work with municipal administrations, citizens’ assemblies, neighbourhood initiatives, and civic associations. The kit is built around the German Moderationsmethode tradition — a structured approach to workshop facilitation in which the moderator uses pre-prepared visualisation cards, wall-walking techniques, and the Pinnwand (pinboard) to keep the group’s collective work visible and editable. Each workshop plan in the kit carries a complete run-of-show with time slots, materials, and a moderator’s checklist; the visualisation method library is the largest single section, covering card-sort, clustering, gallery-walk, dot-voting, and structured plenary techniques. The kit is CC-BY licensed (per the Stiftung Mitarbeit open-access policy) and is one of the cleanest German-language “print-and-use” workshop toolkits for citizen participation. Quote short passages with attribution; the value is the structured run-of-show and the visualisation catalogue [source: stiftung-mitarbeit-workshop-koffer].
Use it for
Designing a citizen-participation workshop in German; choosing visualisation methods (card-sort, clustering, gallery-walk) for a multi-stakeholder group; sequencing a half-day or full-day session with the moderator’s running sheet; training a German moderator in the Moderationsmethode tradition.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Open Questions
None yet — the mitarbeit.de host confirmed live (200 OK; 43 KB HTML); the CC-BY license is documented on the foundation’s open-access publications page.
Sources & verification
- sources/stiftung-mitarbeit-workshop-koffer — grounding: primary — RAW mitarbeit.de host confirmed live (200 OK); CC-BY licensing per Stiftung Mitarbeit publications page.