This workshop is presented by the Tamarack Institute.
Teams and individuals who work with communities are experiencing significant changes in how they do community engagement. There is a growing sense of polarization, intolerance, and hate, which can cause significant harm, fear and can reduce the desire for people to work together.
On February 12, join Tamarack's Consulting Director of Community Engagement, Lisa Attygalle, to enhance your ability to create spaces for healthy dialogue in her popular 3-hour virtual workshop Community Engagement: From Debate to Dialogue.
# Learning Objectives
Diverse perspectives are important for solution-making, and finding ways to break the divide are necessary at the local level if we want to find ways of moving forward.
Attend this event to:
- Learn techniques and tools to help you navigate polarization in real time when facilitating engagement.
- Create shared realities (or shared language) between those holding different perspectives and increase the chances of healthy dialogue.
- Consider how to build relationships and reduce barriers to engagement.
- Frame polarized situations to create the conditions to move from debate to dialogue.
- Increase your knowledge of consensus-based and dialogue practices.
Learners will walk away with an understanding of the current trends in community engagement, the confidence to overcome barriers and create spaces for inclusive engagement, the ability to foster spaces for healthy dialogue, and the tools to develop your understanding of dialogue-based practices.
Registrants also receive access to Workshop Pre-Learning Resources and a 1-Hour Group Coaching Session.