Facilitating Transformational Dialogues
Creating Socially Just Communities

Stephanie D. Hicks (Edited by), Donna Rich Kaplowitz (Edited by), Beverly Daniel Tatum (Foreword by)

9780807786024

Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2024

208 pages
22.9 x 15.6 x 1 cm, 0.295 kg

This much-needed guide provides the specific skills and materials necessary to facilitate effective dialogues across identity differences. We are living through arguably one of the most divisive times in our country and the world. People do not know how to communicate across differences in a way that advances the public good--from the international halls of power to local city governments to classrooms to family dinners. The consequences are devastating--from hate-fueled conflicts and mass shootings to teachers who do not know how to address problematic comments in the classroom. This book responds to the urgent need to address complicated, intense, and oftentimes personal differences in a productive way. Written for both novice and experienced facilitators, it offers concrete materials to use in classrooms and other settings, along with anecdotes, vignettes, and hard-earned lessons based on the authors' own experiences. By capturing conversations among leaders in the field and emergent practitioners, Facilitating Transformational Dialogues emanates optimistic energy and time-tested wisdom from the fields of Intergroup Relations and Intergroup Dialogue.

• Contents
• Foreword 
  Beverly Daniel Tatum  
  ix
• Acknowledgments  
  xi
• Introduction  
  1
• 1.  
  Introduction to IGD: What Is IGD?  
  7
  Kristie Ford and Kelley Maxwell
• 2.  
  Key Identity Concepts for IGD Facilitators to Know  
  15
• Section A: Key Social Identity Concepts for IGD Facilitators to Know  
  17
  Sara Crider and Danny Alvarez
• Section B: Privilege, Power, and Oppression—
  Core Terminology  
  25
  Christina Morton and Meaghan Wheat
• 3.  
  Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Techniques  
  32
• Section A: The Role of Facilitators  
  34
  Deborah Slosberg and Monita Thompson
• Section B: Equalizing Power Dynamics: Multipartiality, Dominant and Counter-Narratives  
  39
  Christina Morton and Cesar Vargas-Leon
• Section C: Challenging Dynamics in Intergroup Dialogue  
  47
  Mark Chesler and Roger Fisher
• 4.  
  Models of Dialogue  
  60
• Section A: Co-Facilitator Observations From Faculty and Staff Intergroup Dialogues  
  62
  Erika Crews, Michael Kaplowitz, and Charles "charlie" Liu
• Section B: Facilitating Race Dialogues With High School Students  
  70
  Roger Fisher and Donna Rich Kaplowitz
• Section C: Online Dialogues: Their Benefits and Facilitation Challenges  
  76
  Anna Yeakley
• Section D: Setting the Context for Dialogue in the Workplace  
  81
  Trey Boynton and Taryn Petryk
• Section E: Dialogues in Instructor Development  
  85
  Tazin Daniels and Shana Schoem
• Section F: International Dialogue  
  89
  Alice Mishkin and Rima Hassouneh
• Section G: Just Sayin'
  —
  Some Opinions About Facilitation  
  93
  Charles Behling
• Section H: Dialogue and Movement Organizing  
  98
  Sariah Metcalfe
• 5.  
  Passing the Torch: An Intergenerational Dialogue About Dialogue  
  102
  Participants:  
  
  Founders: Pat Gurin, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ximena Zú
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  Emerging Leaders: Emely Hernandez Rubio, Olivia "Ollie" Jayakar, Cesar Vargas-Leon, and Meaghan Wheat
• 6.  
  Well-Being and Facilitation  
  115
  adrienne maree brown and Stephanie Hicks
• Appendix A: Insight 1: What Is Intergroup Dialogue?  
  133
• Appendix B: Insight 2: Learning to Listen  
  135
• Appendix C: Insight 3: Developing Community Guidelines  
  137
• Appendix D: Insight 4: The Four Levels of Oppression  
  139
• Appendix E: Insight 5: Facilitator Personal Assessment Chart  
  141
• Appendix F: Insight 6: The Master/Dominant Narrative, Counter Narratives, and Multipartiality  
  144
  Adapted from the works of Janet Rifkin, J.D., and Leah Wing, EdD
• Appendix G: Insight 7: Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation  
  146
• Appendix H: Insight 8: Strategies for Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom  
  148
• Appendix I: Insight 9: Microaggressions—
  A Primer  
  150
• Appendix J: Insight 10: Interrupting Bias—
  The PALS Approach  
  152
• Appendix K: Insight 11: How to Apologize—
  Re-Aact  
  154
• Appendix L: Strategies for Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue Online  
  155
  Anna M. Yeakley
• Appendix M: IGD Facilitation: Some Suggestions  
  161
• References  
  167
• Index  
  173
• About the Editors and Contributors  
  179