 It’s been one year since NCDD 2023 brought hundreds of changemakers together in Atlanta for three inspiring days of connection, learning, and collaboration. The conference featured over 60 workshops, dynamic plenaries, and countless opportunities to foster new partnerships and strengthen the dialogue and deliberation community.
As we reflect on the success of NCDD 2023, we’re already looking toward NCDD 2025. To bring the next conference to life, we need your support through sponsorships, donations, and funding partnerships. We also invite you to help shape the event by sharing your thoughts in our NCDD 2025 Interest Survey. Let’s keep the momentum going!
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Have you heard the news?! NCDD is thrilled to announce the launch of our NCDD Working Groups and Exchanges - and you're invited to join! 2024 is already looking to be an important year and there is a lot of energy for dialogue, deliberation, and engagement work. NCDD is uniquely positioned to bring together our collective wisdom, experiences, and passion for change to reflect and collaborate together. Coming out of the 2023 conference, NCDD is excited to be harnessing the collective energy and capacity of this coalition through the formation of working groups that align with key priority areas for the organization, as well as exchanges that will allow the membership to deepen connections. These groups are intended to provide our members with focused opportunities to connect, collaborate, build capacity, and invest in our shared coalition. Current NCDD Working Groups A number of potential focus areas were suggested at the 2023 conference. The NCDD staff and board have determined that these following groups are best aligned with current organization priorities and can also play a key role in building and sustaining NCDD as an inclusive coalition and a thriving organization.
Joining a Working Group Working groups open to all, please fill out this form. While you are not required to be an NCDD member, your support helps make these groups possible - become one today! Current NCDD Exchanges
Joining the Exchange Express your interest in this exchange by filling out this brief form. The form asks for ways you would like to communicate around the exchange, as well as opportunities to present and lead the group. Want to Start a New Exchange? NCDD is excited to support additional exchanges focused on bringing our network together around specific sectors, areas of interest, etc. If you would like to discuss starting a new exchange, reach out to NCDD’s Executive Director, Courtney Breese, at [email protected]. Additional Questions? Please contact NCDD’s Communications Coordinator, Keiva Hummel, at [email protected].  We are still glowing from NCDD2023 - the National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation - held in Atlanta from Friday October 13th to Sunday October 15th, with preconference events that ran all day on Thursday! The conference convened hundreds of practitioners across a wide spectrum of work connected to dialogue, deliberation, civic engagement, and more. It was an incredible time to come together, see old friends and make new ones, learn from each other, and find ways we can collaborate moving forward. An immense THANK YOU to our conference sponsors for your generous support - you truly help drive this work and this field forward, and we couldn't do this without you! Our NCDD2023 conference sponsors:
 Huge THANK YOU to our indispensable conference planning team who worked hard to make NCDD2023 such a great success! NCDD conferences are collaborative from the beginning, which is why it was vital to have such a creative and supportive planning team. These phenomenal individuals offered their precious hours and valuable skills to make this conference a sensational reality - helping design the event, getting the word out, and volunteering on the ground to make sure things went smoothly. Putting on an event like NCDD2023 is no easy lift, yet because of the incredible team we worked with, they made it possible and a joy!  While the conference planning team worked hard to design a great event... it's thanks to our fantastic attendees who really brought NCDD2023 to life! It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and also meet lots of new folks who have been doing this work (many of whom were first-timers to NCDD conferences!). NCDD conferences are always in-person reminders of just how powerful this work is and how truly catalytic we can be when we come together. We want the conferences to be incubators for motivation to do this work and connections to make it happen, both at the conference and beyond! NCDD2023 featured four pre-conference sessions and several other events on Thursday, and over the following three official conference days we had: 60+ workshops, 3 engaging plenaries, 30+ presenters during the D&D Showcase, an Undergraduate Student Facilitator Summit, a screening of the Abortion Talks, and several organized dialogues and collaborative convenings; in addition to the countless connections made throughout the weekend. Check out the beautiful boards created by our team of graphic faciliators at the conference to get an idea of some of the workshops and plenary conversations - find the folder linked here! We also used the Whova App to supplement the conference experience. The event planning app offered dozens of "open space-like" opportunities to convene community conversations, organize meet-ups, share images and videos, and support further networking connections. Land Acknowledgement - NCDD2023 was held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter in Atlanta, Georgia. It is important to understand the longstanding history that brought us to that land, and to seek to understand our place within that history. Land acknowledgements do not exist in a past tense, or historical context: settler colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to build our mindfulness of our present participation. We acknowledge the Muscogee (Creek) and Tsalagi (Cherokee) people who live, work, produce knowledge on, and nurture this land and were violently displaced from their lands. We invite you to join NCDD staff in providing an offering to the following two indigenous organizations on whose land the conference was held:
We want to hear from you! The conference evaluation is up at tinyurl.com/NCDD2023Eval. Please be sure to let us know what you loved, what could have been better, and any advice you have for the next planning team. We appreciate any feedback you can offer and will take it into consideration as we plan our future events. Thank you so much! There is a lot of follow up from the NCDD2023 conference that we will continue to share with you. Stay tuned to the NCDD blog and your email inboxes for more details! Sign up for NCDD updates at www.ncdd.org/listservs.html.  This time next week we will be gathered in Atlanta to kick off the 2023 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation! The conference formally begins on Friday October 13 and runs until Sunday October 15th, although we have a full day of pre conference events on Thursday, October 12th (several of which are free to join!). If you haven't already, register for NCDD2023 to join us for this signature event lifting up dialogue, deliberation, and engagement work. Register at tinyurl.com/NCDD2023reg. We’re still offering our “100-off” promo code on regular registration and “Student-Deal” to save $60 on student registrations - so make the most of these opportunities as register today at the URL above. We also have one-day deals if you can only join us for a day! We're using Whova as our event app platform and strongly encourage folks to check it out! Join the event app to access:
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 The NCDD2023 planning team has been hard at work to create a fantastic conference, and we are thrilled to share that the guidebook is now available! Find the conference guidebook below to check out the schedule, speakers, plenary descriptions, and much more. It’s great to see the conference highlights all in one place! You can download a PDF version of the guidebook below the slideshow. Stay tuned - we are also be using the Whova App for the conference and will announce this very soon! NCDD2023 will be from Friday October 13th to Sunday October 15th, with preconference events all day on Thursday October 12th. This conference will be a fantastic time for practitioners and enthusiasts of dialogue, deliberation, and engagement work to dig in together about how to build capacity for this work and amplify its usage. We hope you will consider joining us if you haven’t registered already so you can both experience this impactful event and networking opportunity. We’re still offering our “100-off” promo code on regular registration and “Student-Deal” to save $60 on student registrations - so make the most of these opportunities as register today at: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MTc4MDYw/204040. We also have one-day deals if you can only join us for a day! Download Here: The NCDD2023 Guidebook
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