Open Source is a collective drawing from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, interests and organisations, including:

• Grassroots to Global

• Active Enquiry

• Diversity Matters Edinburgh 

• Bioregioning

We have a wide range of skills and well over a century of experience between us. We have a deep commitment to using deliberative democratic processes to bring about positive change in Scotland. 

We do that by:

• Understanding and co-creating inspiring bottom-up alternatives to the root causes of the social and environmental crises we all face in ways that balance the needs of individuals, of communities and of ecosystems.

• Supporting community processes that help people regain agency in their lives and put all of our voices at the heart of our collective decision-making: this work can’t be left solely to government.

We are developing and offering approaches and interventions that enable us to work with communities in order to learn, to support each other, and to think together creatively, within deliberative democratic assembly processes. 

We aim to build awareness and momentum to eventually enable a citizen-led national assembly with the capacity to challenge and shift our current decision making structures towards being more inclusive, place/land based, life-affirming, caring and liberating, where well-being, relationship, and all - human and non-human - have enough to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

Internally we are building our relationships, mutual understanding and ability to support one another, creating safe practitioner spaces where we can be honest about our difficulties and barriers as well as our successes. This radically improves the quality of what we’re each doing individually and therefore what we can do collectively.