TRANSFORMATIONAL INTERGROUP DIALOGUE FACILITATOR TRAINING INSTITUTE

The Transformational Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Training Institute prepares university employees, as well as colleagues from other universities, and outside corporations and organizations, to facilitate dialogues within their departments, organizations, and institutions. Transformational Intergroup Dialogues are a means of engaging faculty, administrators, staff and students in better understanding race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and class.

The Transformational Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Training Institute is sponsoring a series of dialogues for advanced facilitators on an invitation only basis during the spring academic semester. The goals of the workshops are to: 1) improve facilitation skills, 2) deepen understanding of major social justice issues, 3) dialogue about the dialogic process, 4) improve the relationships of facilitators, 5) practice facilitating dialogues, 6) help participants to explore their major obstacles to facilitating diverse groups and 7) build a community of transformational intergroup dialogue facilitators.

A tentative listing of workshops is listed here:

• Monday, January 28 3-5pm
• Dialoguing About Race: Minimizing Guilt, Rage and Fear through Authentic Engagements
• Carol Moeller, Carl Moore and Mary Stricker
• Thursday, February 28 3-5pm
• Understanding the “Other”: Using Dialogue to Improve LGBTI-Heterosexual Relations
• Tchet Dorman and Maureen Cannon
• Thursday, March 28 3-5pm
• Divine Dialogues for Religious Cooperation
• Valerie Dudley and Tiffenia Archie
• April 16 3:30-5:30pm
• Privilege, Identity and Understanding: Navigating Race and Gender Narratives through Dialogue
• Shauna Goodman and Darvin Martin
• Monday, April 29 3:30-5pm
• Building Harmony Among the Venetians and Martians: Minimizing the Fears of Contemporary Gendered Relationships
• Tchet Dorman, Kimberly Chestnut and Gardy Guiteau
• Monday, May 13 3-5pm
• Sex Talk
• Tiffenia Archie and Kimmy Chestnut

Participation in these workshops is reserved for a select group of individuals who are advanced in intergroup dialogue facilitation as practitioners or theoreticians and have participated in IDEAL programs. All participants must be approved by the Director of the Center for Social Justice and Multicultural Education. Recommendations for additional participants can be submitted to the Director at anytime.