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Title: WORDS OF ENGAGEMENT (WE): AN INTERGROUP DIALOGUE PROGRAM


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WORDS OF ENGAGEMENT (WE) AN INTERGROUP DIALOGUE
PROGRAM
  • Facilitator Orientation Development
  • Ms. Gloria Bouis, Associate Director
  • Mr. Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Assistant Director
  • Dr. Christine Clark, Executive Director
  • Ms. Sivagami Subbaraman, Assistant Director
  • Materials for Selected Slides from Nagda and
    Zúñiga

2
Practice
  • Story About Your Name(s)

3
INTERGROUP DIALOGUEDefinition
  • Intergroup dialogue is a facilitated,
    face-to-face encounter that strives to create new
    levels of understanding, relating, action between
    two or more social identity groups who have a
    history of conflict or potential conflict.
  • (From Nagda Zúñiga)

4
INTERGROUP DIALOGUEDefinition
  • A face-to-face meeting between members from two
    (or more) different social groups that have a
    history of conflict or potential conflict. The
    groups are broadly defined by race, ethnicity,
    gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion,
    socio-economic class and other social group
    identities. Participants engage in a
    semi-structured process to explore commonalities
    and differences, intergroup conflicts and
    possibilities for alliance and coalition building
    for social justice action. The dialogues occur
    over an extended period of time and are
    facilitated by trained peers.
  • (From Nagda)

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INTERGROUP DIALOGUEDefinition
  • A social justice approach to dialogue
    foregrounds both societal power relations of
    domination- subordination, and the creative
    possibilities for engaging and working with and
    across these differences. Cultural differences
    are contextualized in historical and existent
    social power relations. The approach aims to
    move beyond seeing these differences as divisive,
    and to collectively generate newer ways of being
    powerful without perpetuating social
    inequalities, and building bridges for social
    change.
  • Such an approach, therefore, can be used in
    mixed groups that are not defined along any
    particular social identities but allows for a
    consideration of different social
    positionalities.
  • (From Nagda)

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INTERGROUP DIALOGUEFormats
  • Intergroup/Intragroup
  • Issue Specific/Group Specific
  • Emergent Theme
  • Story Circles
  • Other Names (Study Circle, Culture Circle,
    Bi-Communal Dialogues)

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INTERGROUP DIALOGUE Discussion and Debate
  • Debate
  • Listening to gain advantage
  • Discussion
  • Serial Monologuing
  • Dialogue
  • Listening for understanding

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Feedback
  • What Students Want

9
Practice
  • Hopes and Fears Facilitation/Co-Facilitation
    Skills Development Activities

10
INTERGROUP DIALOGUEModels
  • Democracy
  • Finding common ground vs. Orchestrating a
    collective understanding
  • Social Justice
  • Impact of model on content vs. process
  • Power and privilege vs. Privileging of oppression
    over everything
  • Synthesis with a social justice PRACTICE focus

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INTERGROUP DIALOGUEStages
  • Consciousness RaisingRelationship Knowledge
    Building
  • Sustained DialogueSupport Challenge
  • TransformationConflict Negotiation
  • Building CommunityCollective Social Action

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INTEGRATING STAGES OF DIALOGUE INTO A CONCEPTUAL
FRAMEWORK
  • Conceptual Framework
  • Nurturing dialogue and building relationships
    across differences
  • Raising awareness about cultural differences,
    socialization and roles in systems of privilege
    and oppression
  • Bridging differences and working constructively
    with conflicts
  • Envisioning change, building alliances and
    taking action for social justice
  • (From Nagda)
  • Corresponding Stages
  • Stage One Group Beginnings
  • Stage Two Exploring Commonalities Differences
    in Experiences
  • Stage Three
  • Working with Controversial Issues Intergroup
    Conflicts
  • Stage Four Envisioning Change Taking Action

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INTERGROUP DIALOGUEGround Rules
  • Pre-conceived ideas
  • What the research with our students taught us

14
Mindset
  • Why IDWhy do we do ID?
  • What is the philosophy that underlies motivation
    to do ID?
  • Connection between head and heart

15
Mindset
  • Self Awareness and Self Control
  • Knowing self and community
  • Motivation, values, beliefs
  • Personal, cultural, political norms gt
  • Stereotyping vs. Characterizing
  • Detachment
  • Facilitating vs. Teaching
  • Judgement and Assumptions

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Mindset
  • Facilitator as Catalyst
  • Orchestrating a collective understanding vs.
    Reaching common ground
  • Humility vs. Center of Attention
  • Possibilities offered by ID
  • ID vs. Serial Monologues

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Mindset
  • Possibilities offered by ID
  • Inherent opportunities manifest in
  • Discussiongt Transformation gt Dialogue
  • Agency and empowerment
  • Creating and connecting a collective
    consciousness
  • Facilitation as the connecting of dots balanced
    with self-exploration

18
Mindset
  • Possibilities offered by ID
  • How a facilitators feelings/assumptions impact
    listening and other facilitation skills

19
Mindset
  • Be at a stage of personal identity development in
    relationship to the social identity salient to
    the dialogue that affords you the ability to
    skillfully challenge and affirm participants who
    are members of both your own and other identity
    groups in appropriate measure

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Mindset
  • Be tuned into issues related to the dialogue you
    are facilitating that are highly charged
    triggers or flashpoints for you so they can
    effectively manage your reactions to those issues
    in ways that enhance the participants dialogic
    learning experience

21
Mindset
  • Possess an appreciation of student development
    theories and how students development in
    relationship to those theories may manifest in
    their dialogue participation and/or learning
    experiences

22
Mindset
  • Possess an appreciation for the similarities
    across and the differences between dialogue
    facilitation and classroom teaching

23
Skills
  • Content area knowledge
  • Levels of knowledge and impact on manner of
    facilitation
  • Content vs. Process
  • Dialogic communication
  • ListeningActive ListeningSilence/Inner Chatter

24
Skills
  • Positionality of facilitator and participants
  • Support vs. Challenge (personal, academic,
    political)
  • Create 3rd space
  • Conflict negotiation
  • Reframing/Summarizing

25
Texture
  • Suspending Judgment
  • Explaining vs. Owning
  • Intent vs. Impact
  • Holding

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Texture
  • Creating Third Space
  • a place where participants bring first space or
    personal knowledge, ideas, and opinions and talk
    about them using second space or group
    knowledge, norms, and etiquette

27
Logistics
  • Handouts General Administrivia

28
Logistics
  • Program Evaluation Assessment

29
Logistics
  • Syllabus/First Day Cheat Sheet Review
  • Grading Concerns
  • WITH Co-Facilitator
  • How
  • What
  • Alternative Assignments
  • Holidays

30
Logistics
  • Online Registration System Login/Interface

31
Logistics
  • Credits
  • Online Registration Testudo Registration
  • Social Justice from Classroom to Community
  • Class Time Conflicts
  • Other

32
Practice
  • Simulated Dialogues
  • Race
  • Gender/Sex
  • Religion, Spirituality, Faith, Secularity
  • Sexual Orientation

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Practice
  • Simulated Co-Facilitation Challenges
  • Air Time
  • Sharing Work Load/Grading
  • Knowledge Base/Power Dynamics/Developmental Stage
  • Activities
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