Facilitating Transformational Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities

The book Facilitating Transformational Dialogues provides specific skills and materials to facilitate effective dialogues across identity differences, addressing the urgent need to address complicated, intense, and personal differences in a productive way. It offers concrete materials to use in classrooms and other settings, anecdotes, vignettes, and hard-earned lessons based on the authors' own experiences. It explores why talking about power in intimate cross-identity dialogue settings is key to dismantling systems of oppression and includes a primer on the foundations of facilitation with specific suggestions for pre- and inservice teachers, professors, youth advisors, school administrators, business leaders, and everyone interested in promoting dialogue across difference. It also includes a range of strategies for implementing dialogues, from using peer, near-peer, teacher, or consultant-based facilitating frameworks, and a curriculum that has been field tested in dozens of settings with high school and college students, faculty, professors, and community leaders.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

This comprehensive guide offers essential skills and resources to facilitate effective dialogues across identity differences, addressing the urgent need to address complex, intense, and personal differences in a productive way. Written for both novice and experienced facilitators, it provides concrete materials, anecdotes, vignettes, and hard-earned lessons based on the authors' own experiences. By capturing conversations among leaders in the field and emergent practitioners, Facilitating Transformational Dialogues emanates optimistic energy and time-tested wisdom from the fields of Intergroup Relations and Intergroup Dialogue. The book features a roadmap for school, university, and community leaders to navigate the implementation of dialogues, an exploration into why talking about power in intimate cross-identity dialogue settings is key to dismantling systems of oppression, a primer on the foundations of facilitation with specific suggestions for pre- and inservice teachers, professors, youth advisors, school administrators, business leaders, and everyone interested in promoting dialogue across difference. Additionally, it includes an extended conversation around intergroup dialogue that includes a chapter on well-being for facilitators and a range of strategies for promoting dialogue across difference.

Dimension: 229 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807786024