[Ailist] [D&D-UPDATES] news & opportunities in dialogue and deliberation

[Sandy Heierbacher]

August 2007 Update from T H A T A W A Y. O R G  -  Home of the National
Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
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Hi, everyone. Sorry for the long email, but there's a lot to tell you about
this month!

1. Become a Paid Member of NCDD Now and Receive a Free Copy of The Change
Handbook

It's a great time to join NCDD! We were able to get our hands on another 70
copies of The Change Handbook, a wonderful new resource that retails for
$60, and we're sending one copy to everyone who joins NCDD and pays the
optional membership fee (while supplies last, of course). Membership for
individuals is only $50/year, and organizational membership is only
$100/year. Other benefits for paying the fee include discounts to NCDD's
biennial conference and substantial discounts to dozens of the best
trainings offered in this field (see #5 below). It's actually a pretty
unbelievable deal, and we could really use your support!

Go to www.thataway.org/members for info on how to join NCDD. And join us
even if you can't pay the membership fee; we'd love to have you!


2. Get Involved in Planning the 2008 NCDD Conference in Austin, Texas!

Our next National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation will be held October
3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas - a fantastic city with of dialogue,
deliberation, and civic engagement innovations going on. We're putting
together the 2008 planning team now, and I encourage you to consider joining
us. NCDD's biennial conferences are unique experiments in collaborative
planning, and we have managed dynamic planning teams of about 60 people for
each of our three previous conferences.

Interested? Sign up at
www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GuVbsmnPbFte7tzUvxhetw_3d_3d. Also, consider
supporting the 2008 conference by Co-Sponsoring or Partnering with us
(you'll get over a year of publicity if you start now!). Learn more about
the 2008 conference at www.thataway.org/events/2008.php, or email me if
you'd like to look over the support/sponsorship options.


3. NCDD Members Played Leading Role in August Youth Conference in D.C.

This year's theme for Arsalyn's annual youth conference was "Bridging the
Partisan Divide: Rediscovering Deliberation," and NCDD played an important
role at the event. We introduced the four streams of dialogue and
deliberation practice (www.thataway.org/streams) in a plenary session and
brought NCDD members in from each of the streams (Conversation Café for
Exploration; the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network and IISD for Conflict
Transformation; National Issues Forums for Decision-Making; and Study
Circles for Collaborative Action) to lead multiple workshops and interactive
plenary sessions. By the end of the event, the students, who were
extraordinarily bright and engaged - clearly demonstrated that they had
learned how to utilize dialogue and deliberation to address complicated
public conflicts and issues.

NCDD hopes to be able to coordinate, hand-in-hand with some of our members,
these kinds of programs at future events. Learn more about what we did at
this August 9-12 event at http://thataway.org/index.php/?page_id=886.


4. Learning Exchange spotlight: 

NCDD's Learning Exchange (www.thataway.org/exchange/) - now includes over
2200 resources. This month, I want to bring your attention to the "Issues
Addressed Through D&D" category at
www.thataway.org/exchange/categories.php?cid=62. Here, you can choose from
dozens of subcategories depending on what issue you're helping to address.
Click on "Environmental Issues & Sustainability" if you're planning to run a
deliberation program on global warming, for example, and you'll find guides
to D&D focused on that issue, background information about the issue, videos
you can play at the beginning of your program, research and case studies
illustrating how public discourse has impacted the issue, and more.

Check out the issues we have listed there, and feel free to let us know if
you think we should add an issue to the list!

And here are just a few of the new resources we've added to the Learning
Exchange in the past 30 days:

- The $9 Trillion Debt: Breaking the Habit of Deficit Spending
- Teachers, Study Circles and the Racial Achievement Gap
- Healthy Democracy Oregon
- What's Behind Issue Framing and Why Does it Matter?
- Consensus Statement and Survey for Wise Democracy Victoria II
- King County Citizen Councilor Network (Initiative 24)
- Soliya's Connect Program
- Simon Fraser University - Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue
- Characteristics of Debate, Dialogue and Deliberation Table
- Deliberation and Your Community: How to Convene and Moderate Local Public
Forums Using Deliberative Decision-Making (training manual)
- Community Juries

To see all the resources that were added in the past 30 days, you can always
go to www.thataway.org/exchange/recent.php. If you're new to the Learning
Exchange, I also encourage you to look over our How to Use the Learning
Exchange page at http://thataway.org/index.php/?page_id=492.

5.  Discounts on Top-Notch Trainings for Paid NCDD Members

Been waiting for a good reason to get more training under your belt? NCDD
members who pay the (optional) membership fee can take advantage of
discounted rates for a slew of great trainings offered by our partners. Go
to www.thataway.org/discounts for more details on these and other discounted
trainings, or to www.thataway.org/members to join NCDD.

Dialogue Partners' National Issues Forums Moderator Training
August 28-29 in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

Dalar International Consultancy's Open Space, Cross-Cultural Conflict
Resolution, and other trainings
September 5-8, 10-13, 15-17, 18-19, and 21-28, 2007 in Raleigh, North
Carolina

College of DuPage Public Policy Institute (PPI) - NIF Moderator Training
September 7-8, 2007 and March 24-25, 2008 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

PCP's Inquiry as Intervention: Crafting Questions with Purpose and Impact
September 10 and December 3 in Watertown, Massachusetts

Leadership Strategies' The Effective Facilitator Course
September 10-12 in Sydney, Australia.

IAP2 Certificate Course in Public Participation
September 17-21 and December 3-7 in Alexandria, Virginia

Planning for Effective Public Participation: IAP2 Certificate Program In
Public Participation Module 1
September 24-25 in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

The Center for Wise Democracy's Dynamic Facilitation Training
September 25-27 in Port Townsend, Washington; and December 4-7 in Frankfurt,
Germany

Effective Communication for Public Participation: IAP2 Certificate Program
In Public Participation Module 2
September 26 in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

IAP2 Public Participation For Decision Makers
September 27 in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

Community at Work's Group Facilitation Skills Training
October 2-4, 2007 at Community At Work in San Francisco, California

NCI's Charrette Planner® certificate training and Complete Charrette
Manager(tm) certificate training
October 8-12 in Portland, Oregon

The Center for Strategic Facilitation's Group Facilitation Methods Course
October 10-11, 2007 in Oakland, CA; or December 6-7, 2007 in Oakland

Leading Meetings that Matter: An Advanced Facilitation Workshop with Marvin
Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
October 14-16, 2007 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (outside of Philadelphia, PA)

Master Class in Large Group Design and Facilitation for Leaders and
Consultants
October 24-26, 2007 in Stowe, Vermont


6. Headlines from the News & Perspectives Blog

Here are the headlines for the 41 blog posts that have gone up in the past
month. I want to bring your attention to one post in particular, "One
Facilitator's Take on CaliforniaSpeaks," which was submitted to us by Elliot
Shuford of Healthy Democracy Oregon. Not only does this post provide an
insider's view on a huge deliberative event we all should be aware of - it
also demonstrates how anyone involved in the dialogue & deliberation
community can email us with posts for the blog! That post is at
http://thataway.org/index.php/?p=968.

Go to www.thataway.org to read the full posts, and email me at
sandy at thataway.org with announcements for the blog.

- National Presidential Caucus Coalition Grows
- Peace Camp Canada Inspires Massachusetts Peace Camp
- NIF Winds Up Deliberations for a Healthy Kentucky
- Civically Engaged Youth in the Americas Conference Coming Up September 20
- IAP2 Skills Symposium Set for November
- Transforming Local Government Conference Calls for Proposals
- Fulbright Scholar Awards Still Available for Korea and Elsewhere
- Consensus Statement and Survey for Wise Democracy Victoria Now Online
- Sandy and the Traubmans Interviewed for NYC Radio Show
- King County, WA to Vote on Pioneering Citizen Councilor Network
- SFU Gearing Up for Dialogue Semester on Environmental Impact
- One Facilitator's Take on CaliforniaSpeaks
- Charrette Practitioners Invited to Israel
- Master Class in Large Group Facilitation Set for October
- C2D2 Early Bird Registration Ends August 10
- Info Session on SFU Diploma in Dialogue Coming Up Sept. 17
- Last Chance to Register for Fielding Public Engagement Program
- Peace Camp Canada Seeking Dialogue Facilitator
- Caroline Lee Article on Dialogue Published in Top Sociology Journal
- 2007 AI Conference Discount Available Until August 15
- Discount for NCDDers on Int'l AI Conference
- New Grant for Arts and Community Group Partnerships in San Francisco
- USIP Unveils New Website on Arab-Israeli Relations
- New Paper on Social Accountability Available Online
- Facing Up to the Nation's Finances Engages Policymakers in Dialogue
- Open Space Facilitation Training Coming Up in London, England
- New Publications About Public Engagement on Nanotechnologies Available
Online
- Mobilize.org launches applications for the Party for the Presidency
- IAP2 Great Lakes Chapter Training Workshops Set for Aug. 13-14
- APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Calls for Proposals
- UN Publishes Book on Participatory Dialogue
- Globalization Conference Closes with Declaration on Peace
- St. Louis Launches Community Conversations
- Call for Session Proposals: 2008 Americans For the Arts Convention
- CIPE Teaching National Issues Forums Moderation This August
- Starbucks Organizing Dialogue on Climate Change

- Columbia University Hosting Socratic Conversations
- Take a Survey on Facilitation and Collaborative Decision-Making
- OpenCongress Launches Online Tools
- Last Chance to Register for Effective Consultant Workshop
- Museums of Conscience Seeking Director of Programs

I hope you find this message useful to your work.  Good luck with all you
do!

Best,
Sandy

Sandy Heierbacher
Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)

Web: www.thataway.org
Email: sandy at thataway.org

 

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