Journal article: The recruitment process (the “drawing of lots”) leads to the selection of volunteers who are motivated and available to participate in a mini-public. However, their dispositions to deliberate are only revealed in the situation and depend largely on the course of the representative deliberative process itself. The analysis of the answers of volunteers participating in the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate to questionnaires on the deliberative quality of the exchanges, as well as their comparison with those given by participants in the regional citizens’ conferences of the Great National Debate (France, 2019) and the G1000 (Belgium, 2011), allow us to grasp the expression of relational dispositions in the interactions that make a deliberative situation a shared experience. We use the expression “deliberative citizens” to describe the interactions between individual dispositions and the deliberative process that compose the shared experience. Listening and respect between participants, the sincerity of speech, the orientation towards the common good, and the taste for face-to-face expression of political disagreement form the deliberative citizens’ confidence in their collective capacity to produce effective and fair proposals. An international comparative research program would make it possible to document citizens’ experience by grasping in greater detail the individual dispositions favorable to deliberation, their formation and their dynamics, and the behaviors that manifest these dispositions according to the reasons for participation in the deliberative process.