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Musings on “Getting to We”

A highlight for me at the “Inviting Dialogue” conference at Clark University was Patricia Romney’s talk entitled, “Getting to We: Why Dialogue Matters in Higher Education.”  She identified three challenges for our field.

Dialogue: Why Now?

In this second post in our series from the Clark University conference, Inviting Dialogue: Renewing the Deep Purposes of Higher Education, we're presenting video of the talk given by the Public Conversations Project's Dave Joseph.  Dave addressed the community-wide gathering on the opening night of the conference with a presentation titled, "Dialogue: Why Now?"

Dialogue and Higher Education

This week on Words That Matter, we will be featuring content from a recent conference put on by Clark University's Difficult Dialogues initiative in which the Public Conversations Project participated.

Learning Opportunities

Would you like to learn how to facilitate constructive dialogue between individuals or groups at work or at home? Participate in one of our upcoming workshops!

So what?: Reflections on Purpose

Today is my birthday and I’m reflecting. I’ve been thinking about why I do the work that I do. I find that all of my answers relate to a question we hear frequently at the Public Conversations Project: “So what?” 

"They are just words….so what? So you help people play nice: What difference does it really make?”