Connecting transformative practitioners across the world
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 4th 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.
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:
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.
You are invited to join in this Member Cafe Conversation as we explore how the rapidly evolving socio-political landscape across the U.S. and around the world is impacting our conflict intervention work, hosted by Jared Ordway, Judy Saul and Tom Wahlrab.
About this Cafe:
Across the US, and the world, profound shifts in sociopolitical dynamics are unfolding. In the United States, deepening social and economic grievances, identity-based othering, and corrosive cultural narratives are eroding social cohesion and fueling the escalation of latent conflict. Politically motivated violence has trended upward, becoming more frequent and increasingly normalized over time. In parallel, constricting civic spaces see public expression, dissent, and participation increasingly contested.
These evolving national dynamics pose a fundamental test for the ISCT, particularly for its US-based practitioner network, revealing potential threats as well as opportunities. The moment invites reflection on the Transformative approach’s value and contributions. It also calls on us to consider what role transformative conflict intervention might play in shaping the broader national context in uncertain times, and how, if at all, it connects to other nonviolent forms of civic engagement, resilience, or resistance.
At this Member Cafe's we will have conversation on these topics, with space for listening and exchange as we consider the following:
Together, we will explore how, and in what ways, these experiences are shaping Transformative practices around the country, and the world, assessing what this moment demands from a dynamic, committed, and pluralistic community of practice and the Institute that supports us.
Register today!
Not a member? BECOME A MEMBER for access to this and other Member Cafe's.
If you're interested but unable to participate on this date, please email Tom (twahlrab@gmail.com) to let us know.
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