Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
What: A virtual space to regularly gather, connect, and converse.
Who: Transformative practitioners who identify as members of the Black/African diasporic experience.
When: The 4th Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
5/23, 6/27, 7/25, 8/22, 9/26, 10/24, 11/28 (last session)
Hosts: Barbara Cockerman & Jerry Mings
How to Participate: Register here, and receive reminders with the zoom link a few days before each of the scheduled sessions.
Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:
Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?
Training Details:
This training is asynchronous. Upon registration you will receive access to a Google Classroom (GC) with all reading, videos, and homework. You will have the option to set up a call with one of the trainers if you'd like to ask questions or talk about any of the material.
This training provides participants with the basic understanding and skills to support people in communities and organizations in having meaningful and constructive conversations across differences; conversations that help change the quality of their interactions whether or not they agree at the end of the process.
Participants will:
Who the course is for:
This training is a significant revision of earlier trainings in transformative dialogue, so even if you have taken an earlier training there is much to learn here. New elements include expanded premises on identity and people in groups, incorporation of trauma-informed practice into the training, and centering discussions of race, culture and power in the training. Whether you are interested in organizing and facilitating conversations in your local community, or in your workplace or organization you belong to, or you are working in an area of ethnopolitical conflict, this training will be an excellent starting point for this work.
You are invited to ISCT's new Book Club!
The first book we plan to read is the new dialogue book, edited by Judy Saul and Erik Cleven. Read more about the book, and purchase it on ISCT's website here.
We plan to cover five chapters of the book at each of our three sessions.
Please RSVP for the zoom link!
Transformative Dialogue: Co-Creating Conversations in Communities and Organizations
Dialogue can be an effective response to group and community conflict. This book focuses on the many ways of organizing and facilitating transformative dialogue in conflict resolution. Erik Cleven and Judith Saul bring together an international array of experts to provide an introduction to transformative dialogue in conflict resolution work and show its application in a variety of contexts and challenging cases. Transformative dialogue is a process that allows participants to make decisions about the content, process, and outcomes of dialogue, as well as who will participate. It puts the agency and self-determination of participants at the center while allowing facilitators to co-create dialogue with members of organizations and communities. It also centers on the importance of changes in the quality of interaction between participants since these relational changes are at the heart of dialogue. This book articulates core values that guide the practice of a transformative facilitator and shows how transformative dialogue works in a variety of contexts to support peace and justice.
Stories of Empowerment and Recognition shifts : A Practitioner’s Café Conversation
As transformative practitioners we focus on supporting empowerment and recognition shifts in our meditations as well as our dialogue process, coaching sessions and even in our Responding Effectively to Conflict Trainings. At this cafe, we invite members to come share stories of empowerment and recognition from your practice - stories of shifts that were surprising, moving or uplifting. Conflict is hard, and stories of transformation help us stay hopeful and inspired about people and our work. Come and share with your fellow practitioners at this cafe conversation.
Open to all. Free for members, $25 for non-members.
Transformative Dialogue Continues to grow! WIth more and more people facilitating dialogue from a transformation perspective, we wanted to offer an opportunity to gather together and share stories, ask each other questions and explore ways to support each other and our work. We hope you will consider joining Judy Saul and Sheri Tardio for this conversation on June 18th at 11am US Eastern Time.
Talk with Baruch Bush on “Beyond Mediation: Looking for Allies in Other Fields”
Join us for this conversation with Baruch Bush as he discusses the value of connecting with potential allies, those with a strong commitment to client agency and self-determination, as a way to strengthen our platform as Transformative practitioners. In fields like law, education, medicine, therapy and social work, there are movements for “client-centered” work where there are some practices and principles similar to those we follow in our transformative practice.
This webinar explores whether there is a coherent set of practices, and a coherent underlying theory, that informs and defines “client-centered practice” in other fields. If so, people in those fields could be our strongest “allies”, and connecting to them could be the best way to strengthen our own platform.
Attendees are encouraged to be on video for this call and ready to engage in the discussion.
$35 for members. $65 for non-members
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