Guides & Workshops

This is a six-session community dialogue program that has been exported to cities across the nation and serves as a model for dialogue programs in the U.K. and Europe. Its emphasis is on personal responsibility and self-awareness to enable participants to engage safely with others in honest conversation. Its approach emphasizes:

• Listening carefully and respectfully to each other and to the whole community;
• Bringing people together, not in confrontation but in trust, to tackle the most urgent needs of the community;
• Searching for solutions, focusing on what is right rather than who is right;
• Building last relationships outside our comfort zone;
• Honoring each person, appealing to the best qualities in everyone, and refusing to stereotype the other group;
• Holding ourselves, communities and institutions accountable in areas where change is needed; and
• Recognizing that the energy for fundamental change requires a moral and spiritual transformation in the human spirit.