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Next week, July 25th - 30th, is NCDD's second annual Summer Learning Springboard. This is a week-long virtual event with 18 unique and captivating sessions. All are welcome to attend! Registration Information: General registration includes access to all twelve included sessions and is set this year at three rates: $100 Individual, non-member ticket $50 Student, non-member ticket $25 NCDD Member ticket (member dues must be in good standing) The non-member ticket prices include a one-year individual or student membership to explore all that NCDD has to offer!  Find out more about the sessions below:
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As practitioners of dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement, it is important that we continue to improve our facilitation practice by learning new skills, understandings, and considerations for designing and facilitating conversations. In the below sessions at this year's Summer Learning Springboard, participants will learn how to be self-reflective and intuitive. Register today to widen your skillset.  Silence in Dialogue: Capturing Possibilities in the Pause
Tuesday July 26 1:30-3:30 PM Eastern/10:30 AM-12:30 PM Pacific Hosts: Hoa Nguyen - Valdosta State University & Ashmi Desai - San Francisco State University In this session, we will focus on the role of silence, pause, solitude, and contemplation in dialogue. For instance, what purpose can silence serve in dialogue and what can silence communicate? What can we draw from silence? Participants are engaged in an interactive dialogue format that will encourage them to notice what is happening within the in-between spaces of pause and examine how Western-centric frames have defined and portrayed silence in conversations. Taming Trolls, Troublemakers, and Tyrants Wednesday July 27 12:00-2:00 PM Eastern/9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Host: Karin Tamerius - Smart Politics This session is about how to set boundaries in online and offline dialogue so you can keep a conversation going and make it productive even when others behave badly. Introduces a four-step, graded process that begins with humanization and ends with termination of dialogue only in cases of abusive behavior. Learn what motivates most bad behavior in dialogue and discover steps that will empower you to turn conversations around. Designed for non-facilitators, but will cover concepts useful to facilitators as well. Somatic Practices to Embody Facilitator Growth Wednesday July 27 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern/12:00-1:30 PM Pacific Hosts: Daniel Little - Co-founder, Round Sky Solutions & Rebecca Fisher-McGinty - Worker owner, Round Sky Solutions In facilitation, we tend to focus on structures and processes to guide us in collaboration and conversation. That is helpful! But, there’s an essential missing ingredient to facilitating and participating in these spaces: somatic practices. Our participatory spaces benefit from giving attention to what’s happening somatically (in your body) that builds the collective and the individual. In this session, participants will explore the facilitator’s personal development and capacities through somatic practices. Intro to Analyzing Power: Building Equitable Futures Together Thursday July 28 12:00-1:30 PM Eastern/9:00-10:30 AM Pacific Hosts: Nicole Hewitt-Cabral - Director of Public Engagement, Public Agenda & Dhara Shah - Senior Public Engagement Associate, Public Agenda This session will provide an overview on power analysis by asking people to interrogate their own power in the context of thinking about how we, as citizens and community members, can shift power towards historically dis-invested communities to build equitable futures together. Hearing, Seeing, and Understanding Tuesday July 26 3:00-5:00 PM Eastern/12:00-2:00 PM Pacific Host: Selena Kohel - Cottey College Indirect and direct. High context and low context. Affective and neutral. These are just some of the cultural norms that may hinder or facilitate dialogue where cultural diversity exists. Explore important cultural differences and similarities and how you might navigate these given different situations. Let’s think together about the work of dialogue and deliberation – how to we approach this work? How can we harness it for further good? Register for the NCDD Summer Learning Springboard & participate in the sessions below that feature discussions about the important implications of deliberative practices.  A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action?
Reframing Dialogue & Deliberation as Formational Practices Monday July 25 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern/10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Hosts: Brad Rourke - Program Officer, Kettering Foundation; Elizabeth Gish - Program Officer, Kettering Foundation Pastor, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Katya Lukianova - Program Officer, Kettering Foundation; Michael Nygren - President, Live Your Best Life, Inc. When we frame dialogue or deliberation as something other than action, we run the risk of missing the potential that D&D has to shape people, communities, and institutions. Taking part in deliberation and dialogue is an essential form of action that involves talking, listening, weighing, feeling, imagining, connecting, being seen and heard, and so on. When we take part in these practices, they shape who we are and have potential to shape the communities where we live. This 90 minute session engages participants in reframing the distinction between talk/action, suggests activities that can help explore this, and provides examples of the way that D&D has been a meaningful formational practice for individuals, communities, and institutions. Can Deliberation Contribute to New Democratic Revival Movement? Wednesday July 27 12:00-2:00 PM Eastern/9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Hosts: Daniel Kemmis - Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy & Wendy Willis - Founder and Director, Oregon's Kitchen Table Executive Director, Deliberative Democracy Consortium Drawing on Daniel Kemmis' most recent book, Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy, and Wendy Willis' recent thinking about how to bring grass-roots deliberation to constitutional reform, Kemmis and Willis will lead a highly interactive session on how practitioners and theorists of democratic deliberation might contribute to a 21st century movement of democratic renewal. Rather than thinking about deliberation as an end in itself, the session will examine how deliberative democrats might join forces with other democratic activists to address real barriers to reform and build a more just and functional democracy. Reframing Democracy Through the Wicked Problems Lens Tuesday July 26 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern/10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Host: Martin Carcasson - Director, Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University This workshop is focused on elevating our local conversations about shared problems by building local capacity to engage issues more collaboratively and productively through the use of deliberative engagement processes. Deliberative engagement involves interactive, often facilitated, small group discussions utilizing materials and processes designed to spark collaborative learning rather than merely the collection of individual opinions. An opening session will examine the concept of “wicked problems” as a framework to reframe difficult issues and review recent research on social psychology to help explain why traditional engagement processes are often counterproductive to sparking the high quality communication democracy requires. Exploring tools and materials for D&D – what is out there to help us? What can we use to improve our practices, engage more people, and be more aware of our impact? In the below sessions at this year's Summer Learning Springboard, participants will discover new resources to use during public engage. Register today to explore.  Introducing the IF Collaborative Discussion Toolkit
Wednesday July 27 2:30-4:00 PM Eastern/11:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific Hosts: Lori Britt, Ph.D. - Associate Professor & Director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue, James Madison University; Shannon Wheatley Hartman, Ph.D. - Vice President, Interactivity Foundation; Jeff Prudhomme, Ph.D. - Vice President, Interactivity Foundation In this session, we will offer a tour of the Interactivity Foundation's Collaborative Discussion Toolkit (an open access resource). This toolkit has been created in collaboration with educators and community practitioners. It contains 50+ learning activities, intentionally designed to develop or enhance collaborative discussion skills and habits of mind. Translate your In-Person Dialogue onto QiqoChat and Zoom Thursday July 28 12:00-2:00 PM Eastern/9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Host: Lucas Cioffi - QiqoChat, Inc. If you are interested in learning how to translate in-person dialogue methods into an online environment, join this hands-on and highly interactive session where we will analyze the components of common dialogue processes (and those proposed by the participants on the fly), map them to a variety of online tools, and connect them using the QiqoChat events platform. Hybrid Facilitation: What's Fixed and What's Flexible? Thursday July 28 3:00-5:00 PM Eastern/12:00-2:00 PM Pacific Host: Rebecca Sutherns, Ph.D. - CEO, Sage Solutions As we continue to sort out new ways of collaborating across dispersed teams and geographies, our ability to facilitate productive, engaging hybrid meetings is emerging as a critical skill. This workshop explores what we've learned about remote collaboration using several case studies drawn from various stages of pandemic life. Participants will learn what they need to make hybrid meetings effective for all involved, no matter how people join the conversation. Deliberation and Data: Survey and Exit Interviews for Facilitators Friday July 29 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern/11:00 AM-12:30 PM Pacific Host: Chris Anderson - Wabash Democracy and Public Discourse at Wabash College This session offers survey templates, ideas, and approaches around collecting "data" at the end of an event to improve facilitation moving forward. We will discuss how data can, from surveys, interviews, and other creative collection methods, can inform facilitators thinking about deliberative and dialogue practice. Working with participants on the structure of a conversation allows for deeper insight and helps create more robust conversations for new events and returning participants. Data also formalizes the practice of reflection, a step that is sometimes overlooked in deliberative inquiry. Learn a new method for dialogue and deliberation – the Summer Learning Springboard is an opportunity to learn new approaches you might not be familiar with! This year's program includes several sessions which highlight practices that may be new to you. Check them out below and be sure to register to join us.  Learning the Empathy Circle Practice
Monday July 25 and repeat session Saturday July 30 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Host: Edwin Rutsch, Center for Building a Culture of Empathy Participants will learn about the process of an Empathy Circle by experiencing it. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process that effectively supports meaningful and constructive dialogue. The practice increases mutual understanding and connection by ensuring that each person feels fully heard to their satisfaction. Helping Communities Share Nothing But "Good News" Tuesday July 26 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern/10:00-11:00 AM Pacific Host: Eric Pories, Focus Intent Facilitation Services Learn how volunteers in West Virginia are bringing "Good News" to their community. At a Good News community engagement event, up to twenty speakers take turns sharing positive community news. Each speaker has a maximum of two minutes to share their “Good News” within a well-orchestrated agenda. Creating a Sense of Belonging Friday July 29 12:00-2:00 PM Eastern/9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Hosts: Mavis Tsai, Ph.D., Awareness, Courage & Love Global Project; U. of Washington & Susan Partnow, MA, Sr. Certified Facilitator, Compassionate Listening Feeling that we belong to a larger group that shares common struggles and aspirations is fundamental to our sense of happiness and well-being. Conversely—isolation, loneliness and feeling excluded undermines well-being. In this session, you will: 1) engage in a mindfulness exercise that explores how belonging starts with allowing in parts of yourself that are difficult for you to accept; 2) explore your experiences of inclusion and exclusion; 3) practice how to more deeply be with your own and another's heart. Convening and Facilitating Deliberative Discussions: How Can We Encourage and Safeguard Voting? Monday July 25 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern/12:00-1:30 PM Pacific Host: Betty Knighton, National Issues Forums & Kettering Foundation In this session, participants will explore the fundamental concepts and practices of deliberative dialogue within the context of convening and facilitating community and campus discussions on the critically important and timely issue of encouraging and safeguarding voting. Participants will receive a wide range of issue-specific and general materials to help them in their future efforts.  Renew America Together is a 501 (c)(3) organization designed to promote and achieve greater common ground in America by reducing partisan division and gridlock. Our mission is to revitalize public and political discourse by teaching and promoting civics, citizenship and civility.
Renew America Together has the Civility Leadership Institute (CLI) who are focused on partisanship and impacting communities. CLI participants will begin their journey by attending the CLI Civility Summit in Little Rock, AR on July 27-29. After that, the class will virtually meet once a month for five months. During each session, they will work through an exciting curriculum, hear from dynamic nationally recognized speakers, and strengthen their relationships with each other. CLI graduates will receive a professional certification in Crucial Learning™ Crucial Conversations and TypeCoach Influence Training and participate in a six-month follow-up program allowing them to continue to build relationships with one another, measure their progress and accomplishments, and receive professional coaching from industry leaders. Upon graduation from CLI, individuals will be a part of an alumni workout that will have continuous opportunities to work together and participate in special events. Find out more here: renewamericatogether.org/cli/  The second National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation Summer Learning Springboard is coming up July 25-30, 2022! This week-long series of virtual skill-building and learning exchange events will bring together people passionate about the practices of dialogue and deliberation to connect and learn together.
Access the Summer Learning Springboard page here. We have increased the total sessions this year to 19, so there are even more opportunities! NCDD members get the biggest benefit to attending – discounted registration! As a member, a general registration ticket is only $25 and gives you access to the 12 included sessions. In addition, most of the sessions which charge an additional fee are offering member discounts or sliding scales. Registration Information: General registration includes access to all twelve included sessions and is set this year at three rates: $100 Individual, non-member ticket $50 Student, non-member ticket $25 NCDD Member ticket (member dues must be in good standing) The non-member ticket prices include a one-year individual or student membership to explore all that NCDD has to offer! In addition, there are seven sessions which require an additional fee to participate. Those rates have been set by the presenters and NCDD and are listed below, as well as outlined on the registration page. To register, go directly to our registration page here.  The Academy of Professional Dialogue (AofPD) will be holding its fifth Annual Conference online from Tuesday 1st November to Thursday 3rd November. This year’s theme will be ‘Dialogue as Story’.
AofPD is an International non-profit charity, developing the profession in service of the wellbeing of society. The Academy aims to:
This event will cover several questions like: How is story present in our everyday lives and identity? How can Dialogue transform those individual, organisational and community stories for the benefit of everyone? From the event description: We use stories continually to make sense of our experiences and the world around us. These stories affect what we think, feel, and do, and over time the stories that stick form and shape our identity. Every individual’s story is different, and we have a unique contribution to make to any situation as a result, bringing diversity and energy through our participation. However, our different stories can, and frequently do, lead to misunderstanding, division, and conflict – a petty disagreement in a relationship or a major difference over a strategic decision. As the misunderstanding becomes part of our story the division is perpetuated and deepened. Dialogue allows individual and collective stories to be developed in a wholesome and integrated way. Building a common story, or common sense, through Dialogue changes the present, and generates a new shared story for the future. This year’s conference explores ‘Dialogue as Story’, and its implications in experience, practice, and theory. We will be looking at ‘Dialogue as Story’ in many fields from peacebuilding to prisons, politics to poverty. Join us to:
 Citizen Connect is a non-partisan platform dedicated to helping Americans right, left and center find ways to heal our divides and strengthen this great nation. Citizen Connect puts the events and organizations working to fix our politics right at your fingertips. Our 500+ member organizations need your help to heal America now!
Citizen Connect's mission is to help your work flourish by making more Americans aware of it, and helping them engage with it. Every week they feature eight events, and every month they feature eight organizations and eight on-demand items (podcast, webcast, toolkit, etc.). A featured organization/event/on-demand item stands out on their homepage, but more importantly, they promote it to an audience of literally millions of Americans through the collective social media of Bridge Alliance plus readers of Allsides and The Fulcrum. Citizen Connect allows you the opportunities to promote your events on their page. Add your event as soon as you can. You can add them to this Google form. Check out all the events they have on their website. They always have rewarding opportunities to get your citizen game on - some interactive, some informational, some virtual, some right next door. They welcome all Americans interested in making our politics better whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or Independent. Explore the events that intrigue you most, then click to get connected!  The Participatory Budgeting project is launching the latest version of PB for Orgs toolkit. This event will be held on June 23rd at 1pm PT/4pm ET. About the event:
If you’re already familiar with participatory budgeting, chances are that it’s in the context of a city or government initiative. But the beauty of PB is that it can bring democratic decision-making to any organization—yours included. This is why PBP launched PB for Orgs—an opportunity for organizations to practice participatory democracy and reap the benefits of implementing a PB process, including shared decision-making power and more equitable and effective spending. We recently wrapped up our first-ever PB for Orgs cohort, which brought together folks from a wide range of non-profit organizations to learn about implementing PB. With their feedback, we rethought, revisited, revised, and are extremely excited to share with you Change From Within: A Guide to Running Participatory Budgeting in Your Organization. This launch event is for anyone interested in learning more about what a PB process could do for and look like in their non-profit, collective, or network. After a brief teach-in on PB for Orgs, you’ll learn from PBP staff and partners about their experiences with implementing PB processes and have the opportunity to ask questions about what PB in your organization could look like. |
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