On Consultation: The gift that keeps giving

In 1960 he became a Baha'i and within two months was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly. There he discovered that those who served on that body used the principles of consultation that Baha'u'llah outlined for his followers to use to solve problems. -gw

Consultation is a distinctive, non-adversarial method of decision-making whose principles were laid out by the founder of the Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah. The goal of consultation is to investigate truth and to build consensus among groups of any size and composition. 

http://www.bahai.us/welcome/principles-and-practices/consultation/