The Dialogue Project cultivates intentional training in the development of essential collaborative dialogue skills among students, faculty, and staff. Programming builds capacities in such areas as empathetic listening, managing emotions, navigating conversations, and finding points of connection.
The Dialogue Project currently encompasses four primary components: a special topic series, the Middle East Dialogues, affiliated with courses related to the current crisis; a new partnership with StoryCorps’ One Small Step, which brings two people with different backgrounds together to record a conversation about their lives; workshops where faculty, staff, and students can actively practice the skills of collaborative dialogue; and guest speakers on campus who model and specialize in dialogue-related skills.