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Workshops

Dialogue and facilitation workshops are available dominantly through our mentor organization,
Essential Partners,  formerly Public Conversations Project

Facilitating with Purpose and Poise
March 8 - 9, 2018   Cambridge, MA
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​"Public engagement and deliberative dialogue is only as strong as its facilitators."  NH Listens
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GC offers support to help individuals and organizations
  • Strengthen facilitation skills
  • Develop dialogue & conversation skills
  • Understand self and other
  • Appreciate and utilize differences
  • Build community 
  • Work together effectively
Facilitators develop their ability to, in any context
  • Know and trust themselves, process and people
  • Focus without control
  • Reflect and clarify
  • Summarize
  • Ask probing or follow-up questions
  • Shift focus 
  • Utilize silence
  • Use non-verbal signals
  • Embrace cultural differences
  • Manage conflict
  • Manage discouragement
  • Hold relevant threads of current and previous conversations
  • Prioritize – sort by category

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The Facilitator's Role

Pathway to Becoming a GC Facilitator


Facilitation Tips
Upcoming Workshops

The Power of Dialogue
​April 26 - 28, 2018   Cambridge, MA

Dialogue Across Differences 
​May 24, 2018   Cambridge, MA


​Facilitation for Community Engagement
June 22, 2018   Cambridge, MA

Facilitating Tough Conversations

July 19 - 20, 2018   Cambridge, MA
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