Overview

This virtual professional development session equips participants with the skills to facilitate meaningful conversations about contentious issues. Participants will learn out-of-the box strategies to proactively create a culture of trust, techniques to support the development of students’ mindsets and skills for engaging across differences, and specific tactics to intervene in tense moments of conflict.

The workshop is highly interactive and experiential. Faculty, staff, and student leaders will learn new techniques and then will apply them through case studies and examples with their peers.

(*Note: This training is a refreshed version of our offering previously entitled Fostering Dialogue Skills in Students.)

Objectives

• Receive an introduction to CDI's PSI (Prepare-Support-Intervene) approach

• Gain strategies to create a culture of trust for dialogue

• Examine different ways to support student use of dialogue

• Learn how to and best practices for intervening in moments of conflict
  

Other Session Dates

• Friday, April 12th, 11 AM - 4 PM EST

For questions, please contact Cambriae Lee at cambriae@constructivedialogue.org.

Jake Fay, Ed.D., CDI Director of Education
Jake is an educator at heart with years of experience teaching and thinking about civic discourse. He holds an Ed.D and Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MA in American History from Brandeis University, and is a proud graduate of the Shady Hill Teacher Training Course. Read full bio.

Eliza O’Neil, Ed.M., CDI Senior Curriculum Developer
Eliza is an educator, dialogue facilitator, and curriculum writer. Inherently, her work has centered around bringing communities who might never meet together to forge connections and learn from differences. Before joining CDI, Eliza was a program director for Seeds of Peace, where she ran dialogue and facilitation programs and trainings for young adults and educators across the US. Read full bio.