{"id":5641,"date":"2025-09-01T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peace.no\/?post_type=dc_course&p=5641"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:27:41","slug":"facilitating-dialogue-christiane","status":"publish","type":"dc_course","link":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/course\/facilitating-dialogue-christiane\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating Dialogue (Christiane)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Five-day interactive course that addresses various aspects of the facilitator\u2019s role. The goal of this training is that you afterwards feel competent to facilitate a dialogue session either dialogue in conflict or public dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will practice and reflect on the role of the facilitator and talk about challenges and dilemmas you might encounter when you practice the role in your context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conclusion of the training program implies the planning and implementation of one dialogue session<\/strong> on your working place or in connection with your volunteer work and an online final closing session.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Facilitation is about creating a safe and brave atmosphere so that the participants in a dialogue can talk to each other in an honest, open and empathetic manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dialogue is a facilitated conversation based on active listening and explorative questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using this framework, the facilitator\u2019s role is to create and maintain a safe and brave space where the participants feel respected, listened to and able to share their opinions, feelings and thoughts. The facilitator will also ask questions and make sure that the ground rules will be followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation in this course requires<\/strong> previous participation in the introductory course Dialogue in Conflic<\/a>t or Public Dialogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

MAIN COMPONENTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review: What Is a Dialogue?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You review various ways of understanding dialogue, as well as the most important elements in our approach. You will also recap your knowledge of asking dialogical questions and active listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflection: Activity
<\/strong>You will reflect on what dialogue facilitation is, and how does it differ from mediation, moderation and negotiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand the Role of the Facilitator
<\/strong>What is the role of the facilitator in a conflict based or public dialogue? Which personal qualities and abilities must you have as a facilitator? Go through the essential tools in a facilitator\u2019s dialogic toolbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exercise: Dialogue Facilitation
<\/strong>You will practice dialogue facilitation in situations with different challenges using role play based on different themes and conflict situations. Then, you will receive feedback from both the course leaders and the other participants. These practices will help you and others to get more comfortable in the role, learn to give and receive feedback and understand your own strengths and weaknesses in that role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dilemmas related to Facilitation
<\/strong>You will reflect on dilemmas related to the facilitator\u2019s role, including the power balance, emotional outbursts, and elements that can hinder a good dialogue. What do you do when there is no right or wrong answer.  The course will  also focus on how you can stay multi-partial, so that all participants can trust the process and feel safe and brave enough to participate. You will also reflect on how to be an authority without being authoritarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparing a Dialogue Process
<\/strong>Facilitation of dialogues needs to be prepared. You will learn about various steps in this planning  process, among others recruitment. We also take a closer look at conflict as a transformative process and how to plan it and where and when to use public dialogues in your communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five-day interactive course that addresses various aspects of the facilitator\u2019s role. The goal of this training is that you afterwards feel competent to facilitate a dialogue session either dialogue in conflict or public dialogue. You will practice and reflect on the role of the facilitator and talk about challenges and dilemmas you might encounter when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5633,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-5641","dc_course","type-dc_course","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dc_course\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dc_course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dc_course"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}