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The Lattice Group - Young People Use Deliberation to Tackle Work-Life Balance Issues
 The Lattice Group, founded in 2007 by two Middlebury College students upon graduation, has launched a website aimed at engaging young people in deliberation about "the issues that arise when trying to balance personal, family, and work obligations in a globalized economy." Toward that end, one of the tools on the website is Lattice Talks which includes an issue book that The Lattice Group has produced based on the National Issues Forums (NIF) model of framing an issue to produce a discussion guide intended to promote deliberation about the issue.
The Lattice Group co-founders, Astri von Arbin Ahlander and Yelizavetta Kofman, insist that their project is global in its scope and ambition. Here is an excerpt from a webpage describing the project:
Our goal with The Lattice Group is to get people talking so that they’ll consider the issues of work-life conflicts in their own lives and communities and begin to think actively, and creatively, about global alternatives to the “ladder” status quo.
A latticework is made up of cross-sections that can grow infinitely. We want the lattice we’re building to cross national borders because we think it’s important to take into consideration how other countries may be dealing with these issues differently. We hope to begin treating the work-life conflict not as a personal problem, but as what it is: a global concern.
The website features:
- rich video clips of young people talking about work-life issues and their experiences, hopes, and concerns
- video from a deliberative forum that was held at Middlebury College
- a diverse and lively assortment of other views, tools, and information
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