The UCLA Dialogue across Difference initiative Training prong aims to build the campus’s collective muscle for navigating differences by providing a series of workshops, advanced trainings, and train the trainer opportunities. Recognizing that there are various approaches to building meaningful dialogue across difference, and that each approach has validity and can be useful in different contexts, DaD has partnered with the nationally acclaimed nonprofit Resetting the Table to bring its field-tested methodology for engaging across charged differences to campus.
The Dialogue across Difference Initiative is focusing its training efforts on three levels:
Engaging
DaD seeks to build the campus’s capacity to have constructive conversations across lines of difference
Engaging in conversations across lines of difference can be very difficult, and the capacity to do so is not necessarily intuitive to most people. Rather, this capacity is a “muscle” that requires technique, training and practice. Click the button to learn more about RTT’s “Speaking Across Conflict” Workshop.
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DaD seeks to train campus leaders to effectively manage conversations in the classroom, workplace, and other spaces where difference is present
Many conversations across differences require additional support, facilitation, or management. This kind of support is particularly important when participants do not have the skills to engage across difference, or when the subject matter is especially personal or heated. Click the button to learn more about DaD’s Advanced Facilitation Training.
LEARN MOREConvening
DaD seeks to support campus conveners to develop programs, conversations, and events that advance the goals of dialogue across difference
While convening conversations across lines of difference might not necessarily require the same deep level of facilitation skills, it does require an understanding of how conflict functions, what resources are necessary in a given situation, and what kind of facilitation support to call upon. In other words, conveners of dialogue need some training support in order to know where to start. Click the button to learn more about RTT’s Train the Trainer Program for Higher Education Administration here.
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