Final Reminder - Higher Education Webinar Today!

Join us TODAY for a 90-minute webinar, "Engaging in Challenging Conversations: A Higher Education Webinar," facilitated by experienced leaders in dialogue, deliberation, and collaboration. While college and university faculty and staff will benefit most from this webinar, K-12 teachers and community leaders are welcome to attend as well. If you do not fit in any of these categories, we invite you to attend anyways. This is a great opportunity to learn and practice skills and strategies for contentious conversations - no matter the setting! We aim to provide practical solutions tailored to address specific challenges on campuses. By attending, you’ll gain access to strategies that foster constructive dialogue and deliberation. Read more below and register here!

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Engaging in Challenging Conversations: A Higher Education Webinar, today! From 1:30pm - 3pm Eastern, 10:30am - 12pm Pacific. Register here!

Webinar Overview
Join us for a 90-minute webinar, "Engaging in Challenging Conversations: A Higher Education Webinar," facilitated by experienced leaders in dialogue, deliberation, and collaboration. This session will help you prepare to shape productive conversations with students and gain confidence in your abilities to respond to challenges and recent conversations. Participants will be able to raise issues of concern when they register, and the presentation team will tailor the webinar to address as many of these concerns as possible.

Who Should Attend?
While college and university faculty and staff will benefit most from this webinar, K-12 teachers and community leaders are welcome to attend as well. This session is designed to equip you with real strategies and tactics that can be used immediately in your educational setting. Furthermore, if you do not fit in any of these categories, we invite you to attend anyways. This is a great opportunity to learn and practice skills and strategies for contentious conversations - no matter the setting!

Key Framing Elements
Our training recognizes the context of worry and concern many educators face today. We aim to provide practical solutions tailored to address specific challenges on campuses. By attending, you’ll gain access to strategies that foster constructive dialogue and deliberation, including the following elements:

• Intentionality: Identifying the starting place and goal of conversations.
• Co-create Group Agreements: Establish norms that promote respectful and productive discussions.
• Encourage Curious Perspective Sharing: Facilitate an environment where both agreement and disagreement can be expressed constructively.
• Deliberation 101: Learn how to ask deliberative questions that highlight public issue complexity and achieve meaningful outcomes.
• Broad Participation and Accessibility: Ensure that conversations are approachable and engaging for all participants.

Additionally, we will provide examples of critical situations, such as navigating faculty roles in states with contentious issues and situational navigation for challenging spaces.

Event Details
Date: Today!! Monday, August 5, 2024
Time: 1:30 - 3 pm Eastern, 10:30 am - 12 pm Pacific
Cost: $45*
Register: bit.ly/EngaginginChallengingConversations
​*If there is a hardship with cost, please contact [email protected].

See the original blog post here: https://www.ncdd.org/news/engaging-in-challenging-conversations-a-higher-education-webinar-august-5th