Training Dialogue Practitioners</h1> <article> <h1>Training Dialogue Practitioners</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:12:51 +0000</p> <p><strong>May 9, 2012 —</strong> <em>In this piece,* Public Conversations Associate Bob Stains gives us a deeper look into the theories and practices behind Public Conversations' dialogue training.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/training-dialogue-practitioners" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Apply for an Internship with the Jewish Dialogue Group</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:11:20 +0000</p> <p><strong>February 24, 2012 — </strong>Our friends at the <a href="http://www.jewishdialogue.org/" target="_blank">Jewish Dialogue Group</a> are spearheading the Deliberation Project, an initiative to promote vibrant, constructive dialogue within Jewish communities about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/jewish-dialogue-group-internship2012" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Upcoming Events & Workshops</h1> <p>rogerb — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:25:26 +0000</p> <p><strong>March 28, 2011 — </strong>Here are some highlights from what's coming up at the Public Conversations Project this spring. If you'd like to receive these updates in your inbox, <a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/signup" target="_blank">please sign up here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/upcoming-events-workshops-march-2011" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>I Rang My Great Grandparents' Cow Bell</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:18:25 +0000</p> <p><strong>February 2, 2012 —</strong>This morning, the morning of January 8, 2012, at 10:11, Tucsonans were encouraged to ring bells in remembrance of the January 8, 2011 "Your Congress at the Corner" shooting which killed six, injured several, included Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and tore the threads of the Tucson's social fabric.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/i-rang-my-great-grandparents-cow-bell" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>The White House, Welcoming America, and PCP: No One Is Dispensable</h1> <p>chloek — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:14:18 +0000</p> <p><strong>January 23, 2012 — </strong>Kudos to our friends at <a href="http://www.welcomingamerica.org/">Welcoming America</a>! Their innovative work <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/21/building-welcoming-communities-all">earned the attention of White House officials</a> in search of successful models for integrating immigrants into the civic life of communities.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/no-one-is-dispensible" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Drawing Up the Guest List: Christians in Dialogue on LGBTQ Issues</h1> <p>chloek — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:40:13 +0000</p> <p><strong>January 10, 2012 — </strong>If explosive social issues are more complex than we think, so is planning a dialogue around them—especially when it comes to the guest list.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/drawing-up-guest-list" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Announcing Our Winter & Spring 2012 Workshops</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:52:13 +0000</p> <p><strong>January 6, 2012 — </strong>The Public Conversations Project’s unique, experiential workshops equip people from all fields with knowledge, skills and tools for preventing and transforming deep conflict. This winter and spring, we are offering a series of workshops from Pittsburgh to Seattle.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/announcing-our-winter-spring-2012-workshops" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Empowering the True Spirit of American Democracy</h1> <p>chloek — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:35 +0000</p> <p><strong> December 13, 2011 — </strong>If you look back throughout the history of our country, many of our grand visions and democratic ideas began with informal conversations in taverns and parlors, coffee shops and living rooms. Patriots, activists, elected officials and volunteers, these Americans talked about their passions, hopes and dreams to good effect.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/empowering-true-spirit-american-democracy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>No Batteries Required</h1> <p>chloek — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:02:22 +0000</p> <p><strong>December 21, 2011 — </strong>The wreath is still hanging on the door at Public Conversations headquarters. Even as December passes by in a whirlwind of lights and cookies, thoughts of giving remain with us. After all, giving doesn’t end when the ball drops. The coming year is sprinkled with birthdays, anniversaries, and Hallmark holidays of all shapes and sizes.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/no-batteries-required" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>A Reflection On Our Nation's Historical Compromises</h1> <p>chloek — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:33:09 +0000</p> <p><strong>November 22, 2011 — </strong>Shortly before taking off on a road trip to Monticello this summer, I went to see a production of the musical 1776. I’m no purist, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and John Adams never celebrated the Declaration of Independence with a kick-line. And maybe Thomas Jefferson skipped out on the Continental Congress for a liaison with his pretty, young wife… maybe not.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/reflection-our-nations-historical-compromises" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>In Memory of Barnett Pearce</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:41:16 +0000</p> <p><strong>November 11, 2011 — </strong>I am sad to learn of the passing of Barnett Pearce, PhD, President of <a href="http://www.cmminstitute.net" target="_blank">CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution</a> and one of the giants of dialogue (pictured left).</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/memory-barnett-pearce" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Q+A: Belle Abaya</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:32:56 +0000</p> <p><strong>October 27, 2011 —</strong> Earlier this year, Philippines-based conflict resolution organization, <a href="http://www.coregroup.org.ph/" target="_blank">The Conflict Resolution Group Foundation (CoRe)</a> started a campaign entitled <a href="http://t-cells.org/" target="_blank">Transformative Cells (T-Cells)</a>, aimed at building face-to-face communication skills among young people.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/belle-abaya" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Civic Conversations: Building Capacity for Respectful Dialog in a Democracy</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:16:34 +0000</p> <p><strong>November 10, 2011 —</strong>This week at Public Conversations, we are proud to present our newest workshop, produced in collaboration with <a href="http://www.couragene.org/" target="_blank">Courage & Renewal Northeast</a>. We welcome you to join us in January on the campus of Wellesley College for:</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/civic-conversations-building-capacity-respectful-dialog-democracy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>A Time to Celebrate? Reflections on the Death of Moammar Khadafy</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:55:16 +0000</p> <p><strong>November 3, 2011 —</strong>This week, our guest blog post comes from the Reverend Cricket Potter, Interim Co-Minister at <a href="http://follen.org/" target="_blank">Follen Community Church</a>, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Lexington, MA.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/a-time-to-celebrate" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Speaking for Themselves</h1> <p>chloek — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:53:31 +0000</p> <p></p> <p><strong> August 31, 2011 — </strong>On the last day of Public Conversations’ signature workshop, <a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/workshops/power-dialogue" target="_blank"><em>The Power of Dialogue</em> (POD)</a>, participants are asked to reflect on their experience by sharing one thing they are taking away from the three days.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/speaking-for-themselves" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Announcing our Fall 2011 Workshops!</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:02:07 +0000</p> <p><strong>August 19, 2011 — </strong>The Public Conversations Project’s unique, experiential workshops equip people from all fields with knowledge, skills and tools for preventing and transforming deep conflict. This fall, we are offering five workshops in different locales around the nation, each at an affordable cost.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/fall-2011-workshops" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Heart of Learning</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:05:37 +0000</p> <p><strong>October 6, 2011 — </strong>As a young teacher working in an urban Cleveland neighborhood in the early 70s, I quickly learned that all my creative ideas for teaching rigorous academic subjects were not enough. I needed to also have the capacity to connect with my students and create a sense of community in the classroom.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/the-heart-of-learning" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Free to Dance</h1> <p>chloek — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:13:58 +0000</p> <p><strong>September 29, 2011 — </strong>Earlier this month, I joined sixteen colleagues and friends of the Public Conversations Project to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. We met at <a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/content/conversation-place" target="_blank">Conversation Place</a>, PCP’s annex across Kondazian Street to pause, reflect and share some of our thoughts and feelings about that historic, terrifying and tragic event and what has happened since.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/free-to-dance" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Ten Years after September 11, 2001: An Opportunity for Reflecting and Connecting</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:19:01 +0000</p> <p><strong> September 9, 2011 — </strong>When faced with a hungry cougar, our distant ancestors didn’t engage in complex thinking about the situation. If they had, they would have been eaten, and we 21st century humans might not be here to reflect on our ancestors or anything else. Fortunately, our ancestors’ brains, like ours, excelled at rapid response in times of threat. Such a response mechanism, so well suited to living in the wild, is still useful to us 21st century humans.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/ten-years-after-911" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Toward Knowing One Another</h1> <p>chloek — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:09:05 +0000</p> <p><strong>September 23, 2011 — </strong>In August, I had the opportunity to attend a rehearsal for a show currently playing in downtown Boston called <a href="https://artsemerson.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=62626839-6FED-458C-A5D6-83316445B96A" target="_blank"><em>How Much Is Enough: Our Values in Question</em></a>. Actually, I attended the rehearsal twice.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/toward-knowing-one-another" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>What Does It Look Like To “Be The Change” You’d Like To See In Congress?</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:13:35 +0000</p> <p><strong>August 4, 2011 — </strong>Like many Americans, in the past few weeks, I have felt frustrated, angry and helpless as I watched partisan battles suck the energy out of problem-solving initiatives in our nation’s capital. As members of Congress pronounced with certainty that this or that is what the American people want, the American people said, through polls, emails, letters and phone calls, “Actually, what we want is problem solving. Enough is enough!”</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/be-the-change-in-congress" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Women Hold Up Half the Sky in Liberia</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:27:47 +0000</p> <p><strong>July 28, 2011 — </strong>How can promoting the healing of women help restore community in a country recovering from civil war?</p> <p>This question is at the core of the collaboration between the Public Conversations Project (PCP), four Liberian partner organizations, and Mediators Beyond Borders (MBB). The pilot project, “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” aims to promote healing by tapping into women’s ability to make change at the community level.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/women-hold-half-sky-liberia" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>What's New—July 2011</h1> <p>jend — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:51:08 +0000</p> <p><strong>July 14, 2011</strong> — <span style="font-family: Verdana;">Last week, we sent out our July <em>News and Connections</em> eNews. Here are some of the highlights from the past month. If you'd like to receive these email updates, </span><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/signup" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #0000e9;">you can sign up here.</span></span></a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/july-enews" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Q + A: The Gender Dialogues</h1> <p>chloek — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:25:39 +0000</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><strong>June 30, 2011 —</strong> In this piece from our Spring 2011 newsletter, Program Manager and Associate, Alison Streit Baron talks about two Public Conversations Project gender dialogues, one in New York, NY and one in Cambridge, MA. She is interviewed by PCP intern Julie Ebin.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/the-gender-dialogues" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet; Internet, meet Civil Discourse</h1> <p>rogerb — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:26:20 +0000</p> <p></p> <p>In this guest post, Deborah Elizabeth Finn, an online engagement expert and long time technology consultant to the Public Conversations Project ponders a future in which the internet and Public Conversations exert a positive influence on each other.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/civil-discourse-meet-internet-internet-meet-civil-discourse" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Comics and Dialogue</h1> <p>chloek — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:55:59 +0000</p> <p><strong>June 15, 2011 — </strong>I brought my love for comics and graphic narratives with me when I started working at the Outreach Center at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies this past September. My background is in education and religious literacy and I already had a passion for the role of the arts in sparking curiosity and imagination, inspiring empathy, and revealing new connections and insights into one’s own identity, as well as the identities of others.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/comics-and-dialogue" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Need for Dialogue</h1> <p>jend — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:43:33 +0000</p> <p><strong>May 25, 2011 — </strong>Last month, the right wing True Finn Party won substantial parliamentary seats in Finland’s general election (read the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/world/europe/22finland.html?_r=1&ref=world" target="_blank">front-page story,</a> as well as a more recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/opinion/14Partanen.html?scp=1&sq=finland&st=Search" target="_blank">op-ed</a>).<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/need-dialogue" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Take No Comfort</h1> <p>jend — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:08:38 +0000</p> <p><strong>May 11, 2011 — </strong>A just-released study by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press tells us that we should take no comfort from the expanding political “middle” – or the increase in those who don’t identify as Republicans or Democrats. That’s because it’s a big tent that includes some very uncompromising ideologies which overlap strongly with the right and left ends of the political spectrum. In other words, much of the so-called middle is not moderate.<p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/take-no-comfort" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>In Defense of Canned Stew</h1> <p>jend — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:12:07 +0000</p> <p><strong>May 2, 2011 — </strong>Public Conversations' Senior Vice President Bob Stains penned a piece on the Family Dinner Project blog about the balance between cooking time-intensive from-scratch meals and spending quality time with family. Bob writes: "I’m all for nutritious meals prepared with fresh ingredients. I cook them almost every night. But I also know that I can get so caught up in preparing a meal for my family that I sometimes miss the most important thing: connection."</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/defenseofcannedstew" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Sneak Preview: John Sarrouf</h1> <p>jend — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:09:42 +0000</p> <p><strong>April 26, 2011 — </strong>We’re excited to share a preview of the Public Conversations Project’s spring newsletter with a segment from a new regular feature. "His/Her Voice" will highlight an individual who<strong>—</strong>like us<strong>—</strong>is building stronger communities through dialogue.</p><p><a href="http://www.publicconversations.org/blog/dialogue-john-sarrouf" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>