This advanced facilitation workshop is designed for higher education professionals who want to apply basic dialogue facilitation skills to conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To prepare, participants will explore their own role and identity as it relates to this topic, review and discuss key terminology surrounding the ongoing conflict and its history, and practice facilitating peers in a supportive environment using real-world situations that capture the challenge and complexity of navigating conversations about the Middle East crisis today.

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Session Outline

• Welcome & Purpose-Setting

• Group intros (full group & chat share)

• Training Intentions

• Objectives: Why are we here?

• Agenda

• Co-Setting the Context

  • American universities as the context

  • Stakeholders and power dynamics

  • The role of dialogue among other types of campus processes

• Break

• A Different Way video + definition of dialogue

• Reflections: response to context + video

• Setting the Stage for these conversations

  • Tip sheet for planning dialogues on this topic

  • Contextual considerations and stakeholder buy-in

• Reflections: stage-setting for success

• Break

• Unpacking Key Terms

  • Meaning, emotional weight, and curious questions for each term

• Break

• Question Design

  • Workshop and refine dialogue questions for this topic

• Conflict Navigation Strategies

• Challenging Scenarios

  • Scenario practice in small groups

• Wrap Up

• Post-Training Survey

Cost

The cost of this certification program is $250 per participant.

Please complete the registration form at the link above and proceed to the payment page. Your registration is not confirmed until you pay at checkout or by invoice.

For general questions please email programs@constructivedialogue.org.

Per our Training and Workshop Cancellation and No-Show Policy, if you are unable to attend a training or workshop, you must cancel your registration at least 1 week prior to the scheduled date of the training or workshop. Any seats reserved and not utilized or canceled with sufficient notice will be forfeited and will be ineligible for a refund or transfer.

Micah Hendler
Micah Hendler is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus (JYC), an Israeli-Palestinian music and dialogue project that has, for the last 14 years, empowered young singers from East and West Jerusalem to speak and sing their truths together — even in times of war — from the streets of Jerusalem to the global stages of TED and America's Got Talent. Drawing on over 20 years of experience in dialogue facilitation and cross-community bridge-building, Micah has brought the lessons of JYC to the US and around the world, collaborating with organizations working to depolarize America, including the Constructive Dialogue Institute, Braver Angels, the One America Movement, Convergence, and New Pluralists. His upcoming book, Impossible Harmony (HarperCollins, 2027), will offer his toolkit — and proof it works — to a global audience. Micah holds degrees in Music and International Studies from Yale and was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Music in 2017.

Eliza O'Neil
Eliza O’Neil is CDI’s Senior Curriculum Manager. Eliza’s role at CDI is to create dialogue-focused curriculum, resources, and trainings for students, educators, administrators, and anyone looking to cultivate skills to foster connection across differences in any context. Before joining CDI, Eliza was a program director for Seeds of Peace, where she ran dialogue and facilitation training programs for young adults and educators around the world. She spent 6 years as a facilitator for Essential Partners, working with communities of all ages looking to bridge divides and connect more meaningfully amidst conflict or discord. Eliza previously taught at experiential high schools in Maine and Colorado and led wilderness trips around the world for groups of young adults. Eliza holds a B.A. from Bates College and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.