October 13-15, 2023
Atlanta, Georgia
NCDD 2023, the signature event for the dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement community, took place October 13-15, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. This three-day highly interactive conference brought together the movers and shakers in our community to talk, learn, collaborate, and have fun. Over the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation’s 20-year history, our national conferences have brought together leaders, practitioners, academics, students, and more to share our work with one another, explore new innovations in our practice, and tackle the challenges we face. For our ninth national conference, we celebrated the return of our in-person community gathering.
Brought to you by our Platinum Producing Sponsors
Recap the Event!
- Check our the Conference Guidebook: View our program here!
- View our Sponsor Lineup: Review the wonderful list of sponsors supporting this event!
Our Return: Reconnect, Reflect, Renew, Recommit
The return of the National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation could not come at a more critical time. Civic life, community cohesion, and democracy need revitalization. In gathering together, attendees explored how to address the struggles we experience - as individuals, communities, and in various institutions and levels of governance - and came together to lift up the work that is helping, and make important commitments to what each of us can do going forward.
We joined together to:
This conference included:
We joined together to:
- Reconnect: to our work, each other, and our impact to community engagement, civics, education, and democracy.
- Reflect: challenge ourselves to take a hard look at the various levels of democracy and its struggles, and consider how the work of dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement can help.
- Renew: recognize the moment we are living in and be clear-eyed about the realities we face as a nation and a world. Build our skills and knowledge to be able to continue to work to address these realities.
- Recommit: dialogue & deliberation are vital to helping us reconnect with one another, build community, and steward good governance. We will work together to chart a course forward for us as individuals and collectively as a coalition.
This conference included:
- Workshops sharing approaches and stories of how dialogue and deliberation have made an impact.
- Skillbuilding opportunities to learn new skills and/or deepen existing skills.
- Working sessions which ask us to work together to strengthen our impact.
- An event showcase highlighting approaches being taken to address various challenges in our world.
- Networking opportunities to meet the people you want to get to know.
- Interactive and thought provoking sessions meant to inspire, challenge, and empower us all.