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!

Join us in Seattle for Moving Beyond Impasse: How Dialogue Works at the Mediation Table, a workshop with Regina Lyons, Ann McBroom (see below), and Bob Stains on April 29, 2010.  The half-day workshop will use role-play, fishbowl simulation, discussion, and coaching to allow mediators to explore ways in which the tools of dialogue can enhance their practices.

For those of you in the nation's capital, grab the opportunity to take our signature workshop, The Power of Dialogue: Constructive Conversations on Divisive Issues in Washington D.C. on May 14-16 with Mary Jacksteit and Dave Joseph.  Learn to have productive conversations about divisive issues. 

Finally, the Public Conversations Project will continue its series of free workshops for nonprofit professionals this spring with a workshop for health care professionals on United Nations World Health Day, April 7. 

Are you a health care provider, activist, or advocate for health care rights?  Does your work entail navigating provider-patient relationships, intra-team dynamics and/or frustrating attempts at collaboration and relationship management in the health care arena?   Do you wish you could have constructive conversations with the “other side” that would allow you to end fruitless debate and collaborate more effectively in order to provide quality health care?

To honor World Health Day, April 7, the Public Conversations Project and the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health are partnering to offer a free workshop for anyone who deals with issues around health care in their work.  This workshop will introduce you to dialogue practice, including the use of carefully crafted questions, communication agreements, and ways to encourage deep listening, respectful speaking, genuine curiosity, and collaboration.  Join us on Wednesday April 7 from 9:30 to 11:30!   
Limited space available—please RSVP by April 2.

For more information or to register, please email training@publicconversations.org or call us at 888-727-8326 X13.

*Ann McBroom is an assistant manager and mediator for the King County Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, which provides a range of dispute resolution services for metro King County and mediation services to more than thirty unions and government agencies in Western Washington through its shared neutrals program, the InterLocal Conflict Resolution group.