Are you looking for skills to facilitate a structured dialogue to action process for your campus or a group of students that you care about? Are you looking for skills to build coalitions to tackle complex problems affecting your campus or community? If so, this Dialogue Moderator Workshop is for you!

After training, moderators will be asked to propose a dialogue-to-action group to co-moderate for other students in the CWRU community in Spring 2022.

workshop is hosted by CWRU and is ONLY OPEN TO undergraduate students from CWRU. You must register for this workshop with your CWRU email address. If you are a CWRU community member, looking for an open workshop, please see here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/427994140997?discount=Free4sdcnDeepMember

This workshop will be led by staff from the Sustained Dialogue Institute, which is a conflict resolution nonprofit based in Washington, DC.

This workshop will meet virtually on Fridays from 1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern US time from Jan 27th, 2023 to April 21, 2023 (while skipping April 7). While this is a synchronous, live series where interaction and engagement is expected, camera is optional and no homework or pre-reading is required.

Punctual attendance is mandatory to complete the workshop. Space is limited to 40 participants, so preference will be given to participants who are committed to attending all 10 sessions of the series.

Why join this workshop?

Join this workshop to learn about Sustained Dialogue (SD), a dialogue process that helps diverse groups build relationships and move from talk to action on issues affecting their communities.

Many in the U.S. recognize the need to bridge divides and to build relationships across differences to tackle complex problems like coastal flooding. Yet, addressing these problems can often feel overwhelming. Sustained Dialogue is a method for solving problems in a less overwhelming way. Sustained Dialogue can help diverse groups find shared interests and identify achievable group actions to address challenges. Through dialogue, participants collectively develop effective solutions more quickly than any would on their own.

During this workshop with the Sustained Dialogue Institute, workshop participants will learn:

skills for being in dialogue with others
how to create conditions for dialogue
how to apply these skills to building relationships and addressing complex problems within their communities and on campus

If you complete all sessions of the workshop series, you will be trained to co-facilitate a dialogue group for your campus using materials provided by the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this workshop.

The Sustained Dialogue Moderator Skill Series will :

NOT train you in how to train others to facilitate dialogue or to replicate the training experience that you received from the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this workshop. This means that you may NOT use any of the activities, content, or materials from the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshop to train other people in how to facilitate dialogue.
You also may NOT distribute, reproduce, share, or upload any content from the Sustained Dialogue Institute (including Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials) without first receiving explicit written permission from the Sustained Dialogue Institute staff to do so.

This workshop is for people who are interested in learning by “doing” and who are willing to participate in large and small group activities that may involve:

sharing about their own identities openly
listening deeply to others
working collaboratively with others to develop solutions to community problems

Do you tend to struggle to not be confrontational in group settings? please consider requesting alternate ways to learn the Sustained Dialogue process as this workshop requires that participants be interested in building relationships with others regardless of their backgrounds.

In order to participate in the Dialogue Moderator Workshop you must commit to the terms and conditions for accessing Sustained Dialogue Institute Materials as outlined below:

Terms and Conditions for Accessing Sustained Dialogue Institute Materials

The Sustained Dialogue Institute’s materials, including the Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials shared in connection with this workshop, are protected by U.S. copyright law. The Sustained Dialogue Institute is the exclusive owner of the copyright in the materials that the Sustained Dialogue Institute creates. You may take notes and make copies of Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials for your own use. You may not reproduce, distribute or display (post/upload) session notes or recordings or Dialogue Moderator Workshop materials in any other way — whether or not a fee is charged — without express written consent from the Sustained Dialogue Institute. You also may not allow others to do so. Unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of any information contained in this message or accompanying materials is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

Looking forward to seeing you!

CWRU Undergrad Dialogue Moderator Workshop (Spring 2023)