Are you looking for skills to facilitate a structured dialogue to action process for your campus or community? Are you looking for skills to build coalitions to tackle complex problems affecting your campus or community? If so, this Dialogue Moderator Workshop is for you!
This workshop is hosted by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and is ONLY OPEN TO students, faculty, staff, and administrators from SIUE. You must register for this workshop with your SIUE email address.
This workshop will be led by staff from the Sustained Dialogue Institute, which is a conflict resolution nonprofit based in Washington, DC.
This workshop will meet over three days. The workshop session dates are as follows:
- Friday, February 24 from 4:30 - 7:45 pm CST
- Saturday, February 25 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm CST
- Sunday, February 26 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm CST
Punctual attendance at all 3 full days is mandatory to complete the workshop. Space is limited to 40 participants, so preference will be given to participants who are committed to attending all 3 full days of the workshop.
Why join this workshop?
Join this workshop to learn about Sustained Dialogue (SD), a dialogue process that helps diverse groups build relationships and move from talk to action on issues affecting their communities.
Many in the U.S. recognize the need to bridge divides and to build relationships across differences to tackle complex problems like coastal flooding. Yet, addressing these problems can often feel overwhelming. Sustained Dialogue is a method for solving problems in a less overwhelming way. Sustained Dialogue can help diverse groups find shared interests and identify achievable group actions to address challenges. Through dialogue, participants collectively develop effective solutions more quickly than any would on their own.
During this workshop with the Sustained Dialogue Institute, workshop participants will learn:
- skills for being in dialogue with others
- how to create conditions for dialogue
- how to apply these skills to building relationships and addressing complex problems within their communities and on campus
If you complete all 3 full days of the workshop, you will be trained to co-facilitate a dialogue group for your campus using materials provided by the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this workshop.
The Sustained Dialogue Moderator Skill Series will :
- NOT train you in how to train others to facilitate dialogue or to replicate the training experience that you received from the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this workshop. This means that you may NOT use any of the activities, content, or materials from the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshop to train other people in how to facilitate dialogue.
- You also may NOT distribute, reproduce, share, or upload any content from the Sustained Dialogue Institute (including Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials) without first receiving explicit written permission from the Sustained Dialogue Institute staff to do so.
This workshop is for people who are interested in learning by “doing” and who are willing to participate in large and small group activities that may involve:
- sharing about their own identities openly
- listening deeply to others
- working collaboratively with others to develop solutions to community problems
Do you tend to struggle to not be confrontational in group settings? please consider requesting alternate ways to learn the Sustained Dialogue process as this workshop requires that participants be interested in building relationships with others regardless of their backgrounds.
In order to participate in the Dialogue Moderator Workshop you must commit to the terms and conditions for accessing Sustained Dialogue Institute Materials as outlined below:
Terms and Conditions for Accessing Sustained Dialogue Institute Materials
The Sustained Dialogue Institute’s materials, including the Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials shared in connection with this workshop, are protected by U.S. copyright law. The Sustained Dialogue Institute is the exclusive owner of the copyright in the materials that the Sustained Dialogue Institute creates. You may take notes and make copies of Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials for your own use. You may not reproduce, distribute or display (post/upload) session notes or recordings or Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials in any other way — whether or not a fee is charged — without express written consent from the Sustained Dialogue Institute. You also may not allow others to do so. Unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of any information contained in this message or accompanying materials is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.
Looking forward to seeing you!
