Build your capacity

to engage in healthier conversations

Helping you develop practices for healthier engagement across difference.

Be a better person, by improving how you dialogue

Be a better community, by building capacity for engagement

Thrive together, by tackling critical issues

Roundtable discussion during a civil discourse training

Civil Discourse and Public Engagement Training and Coaching

Help your community, business, organization, house of worship, school or university learn to leverage diversity and engage in conversation to enhance understanding of one another and exploring your role in public issues. Grow your capacity to lead amidst disagreement and conflict through ongoing coaching.

Publications and Presentations

Red Letter Christians: “Everything is Political, oh my! Why Churches Should Build Better Capacity for Political Dialogue”

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Conference 2023: “Dialogue for Daily Use: How Monastic Rules of Life Can Inform Approaches to Civil Discourse”

Beyond Intractability: “Getting to Meaning”

Global Americans: “Are We Asking the Right Questions About Haiti?”

ECF Vital Practices: “Differentiating Between the What and the How”

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What is civil discourse exactly?

We hope to be a supportive resource wherever the need arises. Read about how we approach civil discourse in the context of the current political climate, and how this work is both for diverse communities seeking to deepen relationship and seemingly like-minded communities seeking to go farther together.

About the Facilitator/Coach