An Essential Partners Dialogue Experience

The power of EP's Reflective Structured Dialogue framework is better experienced than explained. If you're curious to learn more, join us for this three-hour, facilitated RSD experience.

Calendar of dialogue topics

• September 2024: Political Partisanship
• November 2024: Post-Election Dialogue
• January 2025: Political Partisanship
• March 2025: Abortion Access

Event Description

People use the word “dialogue” to describe a variety of conversations and communication styles. At Essential Partners, we’ve developed a proven, highly adaptable approach called Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD). RSD is designed to help people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges.

It does this by empowering communities, schools, and institutions to create healthier communication dynamics, new or strengthened relationships, and an improved sense of belonging—even where there are highly polarized conflicts around differences of identities, values, and perspectives.

This three-hour introduction to RSD will provide a complete Reflective Structured Dialogue experience. The objectives are:

• To experience the power of EP’s Reflective Structured Dialogue approach;
• To understand some of the theory behind the practice;
• To reflect on the impact of the structures and facilitation approach; and
• To begin to imagine possible contexts in which RSD can support your purposes

Participants should come prepared to engage in a live, real-life dialogue with other participants that is facilitated by an EP-trained facilitator. 

If the cost of this event creates a burden to entry, consider applying for a scholarship. Thanks to our generous donors, EP can offer a limited number of free registrations for public events and workshops.

Note: Due to the level of planning and design required for this event, all registrations are final and cannot be refunded or transferred.