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.
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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. 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. Don't forget to register for the free webinar introducing a model for Bohm-inspired Dialogue on Friday, June 3rd. This 90-minute event will be held at 1 PM EDT/10 AM PDT. Register today! During this webinar, you will learn how the co-authors, Linda Ellinor & Glenna Gerard, of Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation (1998, John Wiley & Sons), one of the most comprehensive books based on the work of the late David Bohm (1917 - 1992), came to develop their model of Bohm-inspired Dialogue. Their book has now been translated into 5 languages and is available as a down-loadable e-book. You will learn or experience the following:
Dialogue Application, Design Facilitation This session is FREE and open to all interested in learning more about this powerful approach to dialogue. Register today to join us! NCDD is excited to announce that we will be hosting a free webinar introducing a model for Bohm-inspired Dialogue on Friday, June 3rd. This 90-minute event will be held at 1 PM EDT/10 AM PDT. Register today! During this webinar, you will learn how the co-authors, Linda Ellinor & Glenna Gerard, of Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation (1998, John Wiley & Sons), one of the most comprehensive books based on the work of the late David Bohm (1917 - 1992), came to develop their model of Bohm-inspired Dialogue. Their book has now been translated into 5 languages and is available as a down-loadable e-book. You will learn or experience the following:
Dialogue Application, Design Facilitation This session is FREE and open to all interested in learning more about this powerful approach to dialogue. Register today to join us! NCDD is thrilled to be involved in the April Promising Practices webinar from the National Civic League! Next Tuesday, April 26th at 2:00pm Eastern/11:00am Pacific, NCDD's Executive Director Courtney Breese will join Samantha Oakley from the American Library Association and Kellee Forkenbrock from North Liberty Library to speak about the Libraries Transforming Communities initiative and NCDD's support of these efforts. The webinar will also talk about the work libraries are doing to serve as centers for dialogue and engagement. Check out the webinar description and speak bios below. And don't forget to register at this link to join us! Webinar Description: Libraries are far more than repositories for books, often serving as hubs for community life and civic engagement. As one of the last remaining accessible public spaces, libraries serve as centers of education and literacy, academic and professional development, engagement and dialogue. During this webinar, attendees will learn about the American Library Association’s initiative, “Libraries Transforming Communities," which has provided libraries opportunities to learn the skills of facilitating community conversations with help from the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. We will then hear how two libraries are engaging their communities and centering public discourse. Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) — an initiative of the American Library Association — seeks to strengthen libraries’ role as core community leaders and change-agents. The initiative addresses a critical need within the library field by developing and distributing new tools, resources and support for librarians to engage with their communities in new ways. North Liberty Library in Iowa – Lighthouse in the Library is a conversation series giving North Liberty residents an opportunity to speak on important community issues in a town-hall style setting. Speakers Courtney Breese, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) As the executive director of NCDD, Breese leads a network of 700 individuals and organizations who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. She directs ongoing programs including NCDD’s work with the ALA. Breese is also an experienced mediation and public engagement practitioner. She has a passion for helping people make connections, communicate more effectively, and make decisions collaboratively. She enjoys examining systems and structures and working to improve society on a macro level. Kellee Forkenbrock, Public Services Librarian, North Liberty Library After two decades of work in the private sector, Kellee Forkenbrock joined North Liberty Library in June 2019 as a library assistant. She was promoted to her current role as Public Services Librarian in October of the same year, serving as the community engagement liaison for the library and assisting with the management of the library’s part-time staff. Kellee holds a Bachelor’s in Marketing and is pursuing a Masters in LIS from the University of Iowa. Her professional background includes a decade of project management with a skills assessment firm and seven years in multimedia advertising for a Gannett newspaper. Kellee is active in her community as a board member, having served for the Iowa City Public Library and Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa. Read more about Kellee on her LinkedIn profile. Samantha Oakley, Project Director, American Library Association Samantha Oakley is an experienced project director with a demonstrated history of working in the library field. She is a project director with the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office; in this position she directs the following efforts: Libraries Transforming Communities, Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage, Media Literacy Education in Libraries for Adult Audiences, Community Connect, ALA PPO's annual grant opportunities, online learning, evaluation, and partnership inquiries. She has a BA in English from Western Illinois University, an MA in Gender Studies from Minnesota State University – Mankato, and a Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. NCDD is happy to announce that we've extended the deadline for session proposals for the 2022 Summer Learning Springboard! To give folks a little more time to finalize their session details, we will now be accepting proposals through Friday, April 8th.
Go to https://forms.gle/BFvez3YCRtXBPRBaA to review the questions and criteria and submit your proposal. If you have any questions about proposing a session, email courtney@ncdd.org. Our second annual Springboard event will take place July 25-29, 2022. Join us this summer for a variety of skill building and learning exchange events. Last year, more than 125 attendees from across the globe joined us for thirteen engaging sessions, including workshops on Bohm Dialogue, Ripple Effects Mapping, and sessions discussing equity, neutrality, and using technology for engagement. You can check out the 2021 offerings on our Springboard page. As a reminder, NCDD Members will receive discounted registration rates for most or all sessions, so now is a good time to join or renew your membership! We look forward to seeing you this summer! The NCDD Summer Learning Springboard is back! Save the date for our second annual virtual event, taking place July 25-29, 2022. Join us this summer for a variety of skill building and learning exchange events.
Last year, more than 125 attendees from across the globe joined us for thirteen engaging sessions, including workshops on Bohm Dialogue, Ripple Effects Mapping, and sessions discussing equity, neutrality, and using technology for engagement. You can check out the 2021 offerings on our Springboard page. Call for Session Proposals Now Open: Are you interested in leading a session at the 2022 Springboard? Now is the time to submit your session proposal! Go to https://forms.gle/BFvez3YCRtXBPRBaA to review the questions and criteria and submit your proposal. Deadline for submissions is Friday, April 8th. If you have any questions about proposing a session, email courtney@ncdd.org. As a reminder, NCDD Members will receive discounted registration rates for most or all sessions, so now is a good time to join or renew your membership! We look forward to seeing you in July! In case you missed it! We have an exciting new offering from NCDD just for our Members. NCDD will be hosting monthly Member Calls on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific. Our first call is coming up on Wednesday, January 19th! Current members should have received this invitation via the NCDD-MEMBERLIST listserv. Current members will receive a zoom link and agenda via email before each meeting. If you are not sure about your membership status, please check with our office manager, Joy, at Joy@ncdd.org. Want to join these opportunities? Join NCDD as an official member! These calls are meant to provide an opportunity for members to come together and share exciting announcements with one another, as well as give us as a community additional opportunities to connect, explore best practices, discuss challenges, and collaborate. If you have a project, opportunity, or question to share with your fellow members, reach out to Courtney@ncdd.org. We'll provide some time in each meeting for brief announcements, but if you want to carve out some extra time on a future call, let's talk! NCDD is excited to host an event for up-and-coming young professionals seeking more information about the field of dialogue and deliberation. This 75-minute event will be held on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7 PM EST/4 PM PST. Register today! This event will include four NCDD member panelists who have a variety of career experiences in dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement: Roshan Bliss, Logan Steppan, Cristin Brawner, and Malia Josephine. Their experiences span the public, private, NGO, and government sectors. It can often be challenging to know where to start in building a career in the diverse field of dialogue and deliberation. The intention of this event is for young professionals to network and learn more about where they can start once they graduate, or how to build their career with a dialogue and deliberation focus if they have already started. Please join us to hear about our panelists' experiences and the breadth of opportunities out there. This session is FREE and open to all interested in helping people and communities engage through dialogue and deliberation. Register today to join us! About NCDD The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is a network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice. Learn more about us here! |
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