Facilitating Conversations related to Israel-Palestine:  A Practitioner’s Café  Conversation, Thursday, June 20 from 12:30-2.

ISCT is hosting space for practitioners to talk about what it has been or might be like to facilitate dialogue on Israel/Palestine.  We’ll focus on the challenges of facilitating around a “hot topic” like this one.  The goal is to learn from and support each other so we feel more confident as facilitators.  The Café hosts came up with a few questions to consider:

• When I have strong values and identities tied to a topic, what are the strategies I use to stay morally grounded and strong and responsive while I am in the role of facilitator?
• What steps could I take to convene a dialogue in my community or group if I sense that it would be useful?
• How do we support potential participants in joining a conversation when they have their own strong opinions and fears?

But we’ll go in whatever direction the conversation takes us.