NCDD2023 Workshop Schedule Now Announced!

Exciting Announcement - The NCDD2023 workshop schedule is now live! The workshops are a core part of the National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation happening October 13-15 in Atlanta. We have two blocks of concurrent sessions daily, and this year will have over 60 sessions in total. Below you can find a quick overview of the workshop schedule, with a few additional sessions to still be announced in the coming days. Find the full details for the sessions, including descriptions and presenter info, on the conference workshop page at: www.ncdd.org/2023workshops.html.

Friendly reminder to book your hotel lodging while the discounted room block is still available - learn more on the Travel & Lodging page. In order to get the conference rate, please book your room via this link: Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter - NCDD 2023 Room Block. If you're looking to coordinate a roommate, rideshare, etc - check out this blog post for more.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13:  WORKSHOP SESSON A - 1:00 – 2:30 pm

• Addressing the Rising Threats to Democracy in Our Work
• Building Capacity through Our Work: Facilitative Leadership
• Building Community in Times of Chaos
• Collaboration for Abundance: Give What You Have to Get What You Need
• Dialogue for Healing: Truth and Reconciliation in the U.S.
• Indigenized Approaches to Engagement
• Let’s Reset with Kindness: How Kindness-Informed Dialogue Can Reshape Society
• Partners in Conversation and Community: Creating Regional Networks for Dialogue & Deliberation 
• The Civic Lab – Strengthening Youth Engagement in Your Community

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13: WORKSHOP SESSON B - 3:00 – 4:30 pm 

• AI and Your Dialogue and Deliberation Practice: Partnering for Content Development and Decision Making
• Cultivating Ongoing Public Discourse
• Facilitating Democracy from Campus: The Role of Colleges and Universities and their Students in Supporting Local Dialogue and Deliberation
• From Head to Heart and Hands: Engaging Intellectuals in Dialogue
• Harnessing the Power of Narrative Storytelling for D&D: Lessons from Podcasting and Beyond
• Processes for Intragroup and Affinity Conflicts
• Seeing the Whole Picture As a Blind Facilitator - Lessons That Transform Your Impact
• The Challenge of Making Memories: Dialogue and Deliberation on Memorials
• The Ripple Effects of Evaluation: Making Space for Unintended Dialogue
• Thinking Outside the Branch: Dialogue as a Tool to Reconnect 
• When Beliefs Cannot be Mandated: Facilitating Dialogue in Family Therapy

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14: WORKSHOP SESSON C - 9:00 – 10:30 am

• Adding Polarity Management to Your Deliberative Toolkit
• Facilitation as an Organizing Strategy: Using Dialogue and Deliberation as a Tool for Advocacy
• Introducing the Collaborative Discussion Certificate Program
• Is There a Role For Artificial General Intelligence in National-Scale Dialogue and Deliberation Practices?
• Joke Around and Find Out
• Key Questions in Dialogue and Deliberation Programs in Higher Education: Insights from North Carolina
  
• Lessons for Dialogue Facilitators from Wounded Healers: Resilience, Trauma Healing, Violence Interruption and Aikido
• Reflecting on the Past, Recommitting to the Future: Deliberating Difficult History in the South
• Twenty-five Years of Deliberative Pedagogy in the Whisenton Public Scholars Program
• You like Patriotism, You like Activism, We like Unity: Exploring Similarities and Differences in How American Voters Resonate with Key Civic Terms
• Youth and Opportunity: How Best to Engage Young Adults in Future-Focused Deliberation

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14: WORKSHOP SESSON D - 11:00 – 12:30 pm

• Democracy-Makers: The Arts as Acts of Citizenship
• Dialogue as Co-construction in an Adaptation to Climate Change Project
• Dialogue for Daily Use: How Monastic Rules of Life Can Inform Approaches to Civil Discourse
• Disruption, Dialogue, and Deliberation: A Pathway to Community Healing
• Embodied Dialogue: From the Present to the Emerging Future
• Facilitation to Fix Politics, Democracy by Assembly
• Freedom Fortnight: An Emergent Opportunity for Dialogue Practitioners to Address the Nation’s Struggle to Produce a Unifying National Narrative
• Gaining Insight Through Mindfulness, Systems Thinking, & Dialogue
• National Dialogue: Building a Framework for Inclusive Dialogue in Haiti Through Participatory-Action Research
• Sustainable Connections: Building an Undergraduate Student Facilitators Network
• Using Dialogue to Meet Emergent Moments in Secondary Schools

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15: WORKSHOP SESSION E - 9:00 – 10:30 am​

• Beyond Unity and Forgiveness: Creating Space for Conflict in the Classroom
• Building Dialogue Based on the Uniqueness of Your Campus
• Dialogue Across Differences in the Classroom
• Expanding the Movement: Beyond Dialogue & Deliberation
• Facts Don’t Change Minds; Considering the Unarguable
• How Can Dialogue Change Institutionalized Forms of Injustice?
• Organizing Online Community Conversations Using Exploratory Discussions
• Pathways & Roadblocks: Building Momentum for a Dialogic Campus
• Visual Practice for Dialogue and Deliberation
• Who We Are, What We Have Done, Let's Talk

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15: WORKSHOP SESSION F - 11:00 – 12:30 pm

• A Human-Centered Approach to Being a Catalyst for Change 
• Act Before You Think - Using Drama to Uncover the Issues
• Connecting Campus and Community: Collaborative Dialogues for Community-Based Racial Repair
• DEI Dialogue and Collective Action: Tackling the Challenges of Working within the Higher Education System
• Learning to Create Together: Participatory Design of K-12 Civics Education for the 21st Century
• Meeting the Moment: NCDD & The Future
• Testimony and Listening as Wellness Practices: Reimagining Presence
• The Power of Language: Speaking to Difference & Similarity