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• ISCT Porch Gatherings 2025

  • Start
    February 21, 2025
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  • End
    November 28, 2025
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    zoom

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  ISCT Porch Gathering
  

  What: A virtual space to regularly gather, connect, and converse.

  Who: Transformative practitioners who identify as members of the Black/African diasporic experience.
  

  When: The 4^th Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom

  5/23, 6/27, 7/25, 8/22, 9/26, 10/24, 11/28 (last session)

  Hosts: Barbara Cockerman & Jerry Mings

  How to Participate: Register here, and receive reminders with the zoom link a few days before each of the scheduled sessions.
  

  Topics and Discussions: Informal and shaped by participants’ needs.

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• Basic Transformative Dialogue Training: Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  • Start
    May 01, 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    August 31, 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • Location
    online

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  Basic Transformative Dialogue Training:

  Who Needs to Talk to Whom about What and How?

  Training Details:

  This training is asynchronous. Upon registration you will receive access to a Google Classroom (GC) with all reading, videos, and homework.  You will have the option to set up a call with one of the trainers if you'd like to ask questions or talk about any of the material.  

  This training provides participants with the basic understanding and skills to support people in communities and organizations in having meaningful and constructive conversations across differences; conversations that help change the quality of their interactions whether or not they agree at the end of the process.   

  Participants will:

  • Learn how the transformative understanding of conflict applies to group and community conflict
  • Gain a relational understanding of identity, race, ethnicity, culture and power, and learn how transformative facilitators respond to these differences
  • Understand how transformative dialogue is consistent with trauma-informed practice
  • Learn to organize a participant-driven dialogue process through one-on-one and small group meetings and conversations with community members
  • Learn the goals, roles and core skills of a transformative facilitator
  • Learn techniques for facilitating open conversations and options for structuring interactions transformatively that allow even very large groups to share ideas and make decisions

  Who the course is for:

  This training is a significant revision of earlier trainings in transformative dialogue, so even if you have taken an earlier training there is much to learn here. New elements include expanded premises on identity and people in groups, incorporation of trauma-informed practice into the training, and centering discussions of race, culture and power in the training. Whether you are interested in organizing and facilitating conversations in your local community, or in your workplace or organization you belong to, or you are working in an area of ethnopolitical conflict, this training will be an excellent starting point for this work.

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