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  • Dialogue Lab 2023: Building Bridges Through Dialogue

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    If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Desmond Tutu The practice of engaging critically and authentically with those you disagree with is an important competency and skill, especially in highly polarized and charged environments. Dialogue is fundamental to building this competency. Not only is it vital for…

  • Learn the Power of the Dialogue Lab

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    If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Desmond Tutu The practice of engaging critically and authentically with those you disagree with is an important competency and skill, especially in highly polarized and charged environments. Dialogue is fundamental to building this competency. Not only is it vital for…

  • Dialogue Lab Training

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    If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Desmond Tutu The practice of engaging critically and authentically with those you disagree with is an important competency and skill, especially in highly polarized and charged environments. Dialogue is fundamental to building this competency. Not only is it vital for…

  • Workshop: Your Brain on Politics

    Lisa Swallow

    What’s going on in the world of politics? Why does talking politics so often feel off limits or fraught with danger? How can we get back to the good old days when it was OK to disagree and we could still be friends despite different views? In this workshop, you’ll learn the cause of the…

  • Become a Catalyst for Change with Essential Partners

    Daniel Pritchard

    Essential Partners equips people to live and work better together by building trust and understanding across differences. But, what exactly does that mean? How does the work of Essential Partners look in a real community, campus, school, or company? What changes are possible? How long does it take? What’s the first step? In this free,…

  • An Essential Partners Dialogue Experience

    Daniel Pritchard

    Essential Partners is proud to host this free public dialogue event in collaboration with the 2023 National Week of Dialogue. For more than three decades, Essential Partners has helped people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. Our proven, adaptable, scalable approach, Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD), empowers people to transform the…