SUSTAINED DIALOGUE INSTITUTE

🌟 Fridays at 1 PM: Virtual Sustained Dialogue Training (December 2024) 🌟 Ready to make a difference in your community and beyond? Join us for three weekly 4-hour sessions this December to master Sustained Dialogue skills—a powerful process that brings diverse groups together to build relationships and foster collaboration. 🗓️ When? Fridays, Dec 6th, 13th & 20th at 1 PM (EST) / 10 AM (PDT) 💻 Where? Zoom – join from anywhere! ✨ Why? ✅ Learn practical tools to navigate complex conversations ✅ Build relationships across differences and create meaningful change ✅ Gain valuable skills for leadership, teamwork, and conflict transformation 🚀 Don’t miss this opportunity to grow as a changemaker! 🎟️ Sign up today and secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/dfHdcYiH Let’s create a world where dialogue leads to action! 🌍

SUSTAINED DIALOGUE INSTITUTE works with YMCA branches and Boys and Girls Clubs in the U.S., and in Sweden, Fryshuset, a similar resource for youth, is the site of SD!

We’re excited to begin this community of practice tomorrow with CoGenerate !

Ready to turn division into connection? 🤝 Sign up for the The Greater Good Science Center’s 7-Day Campaign for Connection Challenge, starting next Monday, 10/28! Each day offers simple skills to help you bridge differences and build empathy—because understanding starts with us. Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/etx_xipn #2024campaignforconnection

Join fellow systems thinkers, bridge builders, community organizers, strategic leaders, and knowledgeable practitioners for the Sustained Dialogue Winter Skill Series starting December 6th. Discover the frameworks behind the SD process and gain essential skills to foster impactful dialogue and transform your community! 💻 Register today https://lnkd.in/e8zfhVW4 🪇 SDCN with deep partnerships can register participants at no additional cost with your promo code. Want to know the status of your partnership? Email us info@sustaineddialogue.org

💫 Today's spotlight post is dedicated to one of our amazing certified trainers, Lindy Wagner! 💙 Lindy is a passionate leader who encourages collaborative learning and we are very fortunate to have her on our team. 🌿 Learn more about her leadership style, thoughts on applying SD skills, her vision for SD moving forward, and other talents!!! 🌟 Bonus: Cutest content at the end!

Thrilled to see Elena Martínez Torres and Sindy L. F.'s bylines today in NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education's Leadership Exchange's most recent issue, "Democracy on Campus: Strategies to Cultivate Active and Engaged Citizens" See what they learned as students reported their biggest barriers to civic engagement. "The students were divided into three groups and engaged in three one-hour dialogue sessions. Using methods such as structured interviews and focus groups and applying two compatible content analysis approaches, researchers captured the multilayered interplay between student engagement, in-group polarization, and the health of democratic ideals within the campus communities."

Need Advice on Campus Conflict? Call the Help Desk! Inside Higher Ed's @jessica blake writes today about SUSTAINED DIALOGUE INSTITUTE's new Help Desk launched with the American Association of Colleges and Universities: “There are some real prevention structures or tools that can be put in place right up front,” she said, including setting an academic standard for evidence-based argumentation, rather than relying on “lazy or hurtful stereotypes.” The experts also help discussion leaders determine when to intervene or cut things off, and give them practice in doing so. “That’s sometimes the hard part, because it requires so much quick, improvisational thinking if you haven’t prepared for it,” Fitzgerald said.

As faculty and educators, we often find ourselves in situations where we must delicately and assertively navigate sensitive or controversial subjects, address challenging issues, and foster constructive dialogue among students and peers. Join us this week for a training session designed for educators to work on prevention and intervention strategies to navigate hot topics and difficult conversations within the realm of advising, classroom instruction, and mentorship. Spots available for Educators as Skillful Facilitators: Sept 25 & 26! More details 📲 https://lnkd.in/eZrCZC9k

We're excited to have partnered with Nancy Thomas and the American Association of Colleges and Universities on this fall 2024 focused resource! Confidential advising for quicksand moments!