In the midst of polarized discourse and fractured relationships, dialogic facilitation offers a different path. The goal isn't agreement, but understanding. In this NOVA Scribes workshop, we’ll explore facilitation techniques grounded in the principles of dialogue: suspending judgment, listening deeply, surfacing assumptions, and creating space for reflection and inquiry.

Drawing from resources like Holding Change, Not Light, but Fire by Matthew R. Kay, Resetting the Table, and the Sustained Dialogue Institute Handbook, this workshop centers facilitation as a relational, transformative practice. Dialogic facilitation does not steer participants toward consensus or outcomes; it prioritizes the quality of the interaction encouraging moments of mutual recognition, clarity, and healing.

You’ll learn how to:

• Design and facilitate LifeMaps: influential moments of time

• Create psychological safety for vulnerability and truth-telling

• Intervene skillfully to foster depth, clarity, and connection

• Support groups in slowing down and moving from positions to values

• Apply frameworks from Sustained Dialogue and Resetting the Table to your own contexts

Register for the workshop here: https://www.meetup.com/nova-scribes/events/309637900