The first NCDD conference was held in October 2002 outside of Washington, DC in Alexandria, Virginia. This 28-page report includes a letter from the conference director outlining what worked and what could be improved, a list of who made the conference happen, a listing of all workshops offered at the conference, a description of the three plenary sessions and their outcomes, descriptions of the 12 "next steps groups" that formed at the conference, and a detailed look at whether we met our initial goals. (continue)

In order to create some clarity about how practitioners could best benefit from a national conference on dialogue and deliberation - and whether or not there is a demand for such a gathering, we designed a needs assessment in early 2002 and invited dialogue facilitators, organizers, researchers and students to complete an online survey. 115 people from throughout the dialogue community honored us by completing the survey, and the results are both interesting and informative. (continue)

Explore the results of three types of evaluations we administered at the first National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation in the D.C. area in October 2002: the workshop evaluations, the results of the First Day Survey, and the results of the Final Day Survey. Thank you to 2002 Conference Evaluation Team chair Eric Boyd for compiling this information so beautifully! (continue)