Designing & Facilitating Reflective Structured Dialogue: Melrose Community Conversations Training Manual 

Start here when seeking guidance on Designing & facilitating a community conversation: This material is familiar to facilitators who were trained in June/2023 - using it as our shared reference will help keep us all "on the same page" as we work to learn and impliment the Reflective Structured Dialogue model.  

Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts & Bolts Guide from Essential Partners

Reference Field Guide: In a format designed for beginner- and intermediate-level facilitators alike, the guide shares some of what Essential Partners practitioners and their colleagues have learned over three decades practicing their distinctive approach. The text offers general advice as well as specific nuts-and-bolts tips for those working to convene, plan, and facilitate constructive conversations on deeply divisive issues. 

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