Whew! What two wonderful stories.

I have heard other stories of how juries can really bring people of diverse backgrounds together. Maybe we need more of that.

In my TDG book, I put in several addendums to this new democracy. One of them is setting up a jury pool where citizens serve for a two-year period, hearing all sorts of cases. In this way, each jury won't be rank amateurs all the time.

Another addendums is The Legislators, where citizens are appointed to work full time creating a particular piece of legislation. The elected representatives will oversee their work later. One more addendum is The Consultancy, where the experts are called to advise the elected representatives. In all three of my addendums, the people involved should be working with humanistic mechanisms similar to your workings in those two juries.

What we need is to make those mechanisms as systematic processes to find solutions.

So much society training is still yet needed. The TDG is a good practice field.