20 years ago this month, NCDD was founded in response to a clear need for an infrastructure for learning and collaboration among those who approach D&D from a variety of disciplines, including public policy, social work, communication, education, social justice, social activism, and organizational development. Without you, our journey would never have been possible. Thank you for nurturing us and helping us grow into a network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. We continue to exist to support the growing “dialogue and deliberation community” — a broadly-defined diverse community of practice who engage and mobilize people to come together and strengthen understanding of each other and issues in ways that supports community-building and collaborative problem-solving. Our dialogue and deliberation practices have matured over those 20 years. We look forward to building upon those foundations. As part of this effort the NCDD board of directors has taken time to refine NCDD’s mission and values to recommit ourselves to our purpose:
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Executive Director, Courtney Breese was recently featured on the Co-creating Peace Podcast, hosted by NCDD Member Kathleen Oweegon. The Co-creating Peace episode "Let's Talk About It" (episode 66) is part of a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. From the episode description: The difficulties we have with one another are very often the result of lack of insight and understanding. In the absence of information we make assumptions about one another – assumptions that often lead to conflict. There is a cure for this phenomenon, and that is dialogue – sitting down with one another to have conversations that help us to learn about one another at deeper levels. When we put aside our assumptions, our biases, and the fears on which those are often based, and enter into dialogue with not only a willingness, but a desire, to learn about others and the way they experience and see the world, and then deliberate together to arrive at paths forward that can better meet the needs of all, we begin to build bridges of peace which can one day span the world. 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! NCDD is excited to announce our continued partnership with the American Library Association to support library workers through the Libraries Transforming Communities project. This latest effort will provide small and rural libraries with grants to facilitate community conversations which will identify services or facility improvements the library can take on to better address accessibility needs in their communities.
NCDD will support grantees by providing materials and guidance for facilitating accessible community conversations. Over the next three years of this initiative, NCDD will provide coaching to libraries and support to the project. NCDD will be reaching out to our network to help support this effort with co-creation of facilitation materials which identify best practices and models for accessible conversations. Starting this November, ALA will begin accepting applications for the grants, which will be distributed in several rounds over the next three years. Grants will range from $10,000 to $20,000. Libraries will identify the audience they are hoping to reach (e.g., homebound seniors, children with autism, Deaf community members) and facilitate a community conversation with the impacted populations. Grantees will then use the funds to create services or improve their facilities based on the needs identified by their audience. Please share this opportunity with your local library! Have you designed and/or facilitated accessible conversations? Let NCDD know about it! Email courtney@ncdd.org to share your experience and explore whether you might be able to help support the libraries in this next endeavor. This initiative is funded through a private grant to ALA. Review the recent ALA press release here. 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! The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) staff and Board of Directors send you our wishes for a safe and happy holiday season. As we wrap up 2021, it’s safe to say the year was another challenging one for engagement practitioners, forcing us to continue to think outside the box and look for new ways of bringing people together in community. That’s led to many continued innovations that will carry us forward into 2022, which is already looking to be a year of hybrid engagement (again). NCDD will continue to be a space for this community as you navigate the work to be done. It is also a space for connection, and NCDD will start the year off with some new offerings to help create more of that space. As we look back on the year that was 2021, NCDD continued to carry out our mission to bring together and support people, organizations, and resources in ways that expand the power of discussion to benefit society, with a few accomplishments we are particularly proud of:
As you consider final gifts for the year, we ask you to consider NCDD. Your gifts go directly to support NCDD staff in continuing to offer programming, keeping the website up to date, and exploring new collaborations to support the dialogue & deliberation community. In January, NCDD will announce a new monthly member event. This will be in addition to the webinars and events we offer to our whole community for free, and will allow for additional networking and collaboration. To make sure you’re the first to hear about this, be sure to join NCDD today! We hope you have some time for rest and reflection, and (hopefully) being with the ones you love this holiday season. We are so thankful for this vibrant community, and we look forward to connecting and working with you in 2022.
NCDD's Staff and Board We hope you will consider including the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation in your Giving Tuesday gifts this year and help NCDD reach our goal of raising $15,000 by the year’s end.
By supporting NCDD, you are becoming a part of a network of people who envision and empower a different way of discussing, deciding, and taking action together. You are helping broaden the reach of improved communication and understanding, conflict transformation, and collaborative action. And you are helping others access these practices so they too can tap into the communal power of dialogue and deliberation and build a greater sense of “we,” both within NCDD and in our world. Your support will help NCDD sustain our work to:
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