Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) is a facilitated and sustained critical-dialogic practice that encourages listening and voicing across difference, fosters shared understanding and learning, and cultivates social justice commitments.
By blending knowledge and experiential learning, Intergroup Dialogue supports participants in exploring different and intersecting social identities, intergroup conflicts, and issues of power, privilege and oppression while building connections across social divides.
We engage in Intergroup Dialogue to address many issues, including racism, sexism, classism, and transgender oppression, and it is practiced in many colleges, universities, schools, and community centers around the nation and the globe. As a complement to social justice advocacy and organization, Intergroup Dialogue helps participants develop essential skills for engaging in collective efforts to create change.
Intergroup Dialogue: Pedagogy of Possibilities is the theme of this year's conference. The inaugural conference was organized by Skidmore College Intergroup Relations Program and hosted in Saratoga Springs, NY in June of 2015. The second conference was organized by Cornell University Intergroup Dialogue Project and hosted in Ithaca, NY in June of 2017.