Register for a Sustained Dialogue Workshop
How can I participate in the Sustained Dialogue program?
Our campus provides multiple opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to access the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshops. This includes attending either a three-day in-person workshop, a virtual workshop for 90 minutes each week for 10 weeks, or an accelerated virtual workshop for 4 hours each week for 3 weeks.
3-Day "Weekend Warrior" Workshop
This workshop is hosted by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and is ONLY OPEN TO students, faculty, staff, and administrators from SIUE. You must register for this workshop with your SIUE email address.
This workshop will meet over three days. The next workshop session will be Spring 2025. Dates are being finalized. Check back here for those dates and to register soon!
10-Week Skill Series Workshop
The Sustained Dialogue 10-Week Program is a series, facilitated by Sustained Dialogue Institute staff trainers that will meet virtually once a week for 90 minutes over the course of the ten weeks. The fall session from September 5, 2024 - November 14, 2024 has already begun. The spring session is scheduled for every Thursday from 2p-3:30pm beginning February 13, 2025 and ending - May 1, 2025.There will not be a session on March 13 or April 3. These are public workshops run by the Sustained Dialogue Institute. It is not specific to SIUE and if you choose to attend this workshop you will be in a group with participants from many different communities/institutions. Space is limited to 40 participants.
3 - 4 Week Accelerated Skill Series Workshop
Once a semester, the Sustained Dialogue Institute offers a 3 - 4 Week Program that is the same material as the in-person or 10-week virtual workshop series. It is offered virtually, in larger 3-4 hour blocks over the course of 3-4 weeks. The workshop is facilitated by Sustained Dialogue Institute staff trainers and is a public workshop that is not specific to SIUE. If you choose to attend this workshop you will be in a group with participants from many different communities. Space is limited to 40 participants. The next Accelerated Workshop is scheduled for December 6, December 13 and December 20, 2024 from 12pm-4pm each day.
Specialized Skill Series - Conflict Management Skills
On occasion, the Sustained Dialogue Institute works with institutions for specialized skill series. These are drop in sessions and you do not have to attend all within the series. However, you are welcome to attend all sessions should you so choose. The skill series sessions are facilitated by Sustained Dialogue Institute staff trainers and are sessions specifically for SIUE faculty, staff, and students. These sessions are offered virtually. If is preferred you RSVP at the link below, but you can most certainly just drop in at the sessions of interest. The specialized sessions for SIUE are a Pre-Election Conflict Management Skill Series. See below for details. All sessions will be held from 10am - 11:15am. Locations and zoom links will be shared soon.
- October 10: Us and Them: Resisting Dehumanization and Polarization
- October 17: How to Manage Your Emotions (Practicing Self-Regulation During Conversations)
- October 24: 1 Hour Skills Practice: Active Listening
- November 7: Community Building and Collaboration Skills
Why should you learn how to facilitate the Sustained Dialogue process?
The Sustained Dialogue® (SD) process helps diverse groups build relationships and move from talk to action on issues affecting their communities.
Many in the U.S. recognize the need to bridge divides and to build relationships across differences to tackle complex problems like coastal flooding. Yet, addressing these problems can often feel overwhelming. Sustained Dialogue® is a process that can be applied to solve community problems in a less overwhelming way. The Sustained Dialogue® process can help diverse groups find shared interests and identify achievable group actions to address challenges. Through dialogue, participants collectively develop effective solutions more quickly than any would on their own.
During this workshop with the Sustained Dialogue Institute, workshop participants will learn:
- skills for being in dialogue with others
- how to create conditions for dialogue
- how to apply these skills to building relationships and addressing complex problems within their communities
If you complete all 3 days of the "Weekend Warrior" workshop, OR all 10 sessions of the 10-week series, OR all of the sessions for the condensed workshop, you will be trained to co-facilitate a dialogue group for your workplace, community, or campus using the Sustained Dialogue Institute materials provided by the Sustained Dialogue Institute.
The Sustained Dialogue Moderator Skill Series will :
- NOT train you in how to train others to facilitate dialogue or to replicate the training experience that you received from the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this course. This means that you may NOT use any of the activities, content, or materials from the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshop series to train other people in how to facilitate dialogue.
- You also may NOT distribute, reproduce, share, or upload any content from the Sustained Dialogue Institute (including Sustained Dialogue Institute Sustained Moderator Skill Series handouts) without first receiving explicit written permission from the Sustained Dialogue Institute staff to do so.
This workshop series is for people who are interested in learning by “doing” and who are willing to participate in large and small group activities that may involve:
- sharing about their own identities openly
- listening deeply to others
- working collaboratively with others to develop solutions to community problems
