UNH Civil Discourse Lab Boot Camp in Education

UNH Civil Discourse Lab Boot Camp in Education

Focuses on communication skills with opportunities for those in educational environments to explore new applications for civil discourse

By UNH Civil Discourse Lab

Date and time

Thursday, August 22 · 8:30am - 3:30pm EDT

Location

Memorial Union Building

83 Main Street Durham, NH 03824

About this event

  • 7 hours

Welcome to the UNH Civil Discourse Lab Boot Camp!

Join us for an interactive workshop for educational professionals interested in the challenges campuses/schools face around civil discourse. Our curriculum, theoretically grounded, tested and applied, will introduce the following topics:

Civil Discourse Contextualized in Educational Environments

Communication Assumptions and Implications for Negotiating Diverse Perspectives

Rethinking Conflict and Difficult Conversations

Beyond Debate: Dialogue & Listening

Stakeholder Mapping & Engaging Civil Discourse in Our Spaces


Space is limited |Cost: $650.00



*up to four 50% off scholarships are available with Train-the-Trainer commitment

Ticket and pay information will be emailed to you this summer and not collected through this site. Applications for Train-the-Trainers will be included.


For more information email: Civil.Discourse@unh.edu




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UNH Civil Discourse Lab

The Civil Discourse Lab at the University of New Hampshire (est. December 2017 by co-directors Jennifer Borda and Renee Heath, Department of Communication) launched with the expressed mission to integrate pedagogy, scholarship and praxis “to strengthen the ability of our students and community members to conduct meaningful conversations, collaborate, and make decisions about sometimes difficult but important topics to a civil society.”