THE POWER OF DIALOGUE
PCP Senior Associate Maggie Herzig
This workshop will...
- give you communication skills and confidence to be more effective in your vocation and day-to-day life.
- enhance your capacity to engage others who hold different viewpoints and values.
- foster genuine curiosity about people whose views you find offensive or difficult to understand.
- increase your ability to convene, facilitate, or intervene in discussions that divide families, organizations, congregations or communities.
The Power of Dialogue: Constructive Conversations on Divisive Issues (3-day)
The Power of Dialogue (POD) is a highly interactive workshop that combines teaching and experiential learning for practitioners and leaders. Participants will build upon and expand their facilitation skills, allowing them to more effectively create conversations that foster mutual understanding between groups and individuals.
Discuss:
- the dynamics of polarization and conflict, and the ways that strong emotion affects our ability to communicate.
- the ways of speaking, listening, and asking questions that open up conversation and relationships.
- the difference between a speaker's intent and the impact on the listener.
- the elements of PCP’s dialogue practice—preparation, communication agreements, structures, and questions.
- the stages of dialogue—preparing, facilitating, and participating—via an extended dialogue simulation.
- the “dialogic” mindset, or the ability to create a space for multiple complex or conflicting views.
