CogNexus Institute has just announced two training seminars in Dialogue Mapping, one on each coast of the US. The workshops, called Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems, will be held from November 2-3 in Redwood City, California and November 9-10 in Washington, DC.

Each 2-day workshop is highly interactive and teaches the core skills of a new facilitation technique — Dialogue Mappping. This technique gets away from herding the group through a series of steps, instead focusing the participants on listening carefully, speaking clearly, and learning together about the issues and concerns they bring to the table. The facilitator/dialogue mapper engages the group with a map of their comments that he or she builds on the fly. The map is a shared display … paper taped to the wall or software projected on a screen.For more information: Email workshops@cognexus.org or see http://cognexus.org for more information and to register. Also check out the book Dialogue Mapping at http://cognexus.org/dm_book.htm.

Sandy Heierbacher

Sandy Heierbacher co-founded the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) with Andy Fluke in 2002, with the 60 volunteers and 50 organizations who worked together to plan NCDD’s first national conference. She served as NCDD's Executive Director between 2002 and 2018. Click here for a list of articles and resources authored by Sandy.

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