Fostering Dialogue Across Divides

After 17 years of groundbreaking work in the field of dialogue, the Public Conversations Project is at last releasing their definitive guide to conducting successful dialogues on the most heated topics. Laura Chasin and Maggie Herzig have produced a guide that will take even a first-time practitioner step-by-step through the process while providing experienced facilitators enlightening new insights. Available now, the 183 page Fostering Dialogue across Divides will prove an invaluable tool for anyone interested in conducting meaningful dialogues between parties in conflict.//Praise for the Guide: "The Public Conversations Project does the best work in the field of dialogue and communication, so its no surprise that they've written the best book showing the rest of us how to do it. Herzig and Chasin have produced the definitive guide to dialogue. If it's not in here, you don't need to know it."--Doug Stone, Co-author of Difficult Conversations.//"Organized and written in a welcoming and digestible style, the manual is full of insights and techniques sure to boost cultural organizers' skill and confidence in structuring dialogues that have clear intent, frame generative questions, and that thoughtfully facilitate the dialogue experience."--Pam Korza, Co-director, Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts.//About the Public Conversations Project: The Public Conversations Project (PCP) is a multi-faceted nonprofit organization that provides a distinctive blend of services. PCP's offerings include dialogue facilitation; customized and open enrollment trainings; consultation to facilitators, organizations, and networks in conflict; and print resources such as this dialogue guide. Although PCP specializes in fostering dialogues about polarizing public issues, its methods have been effective in situations characterized by chilly disconnection and suspicious silence as well as in heated and noisy conflicts.