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Fielding Graduate University Announces Upcoming Dialogue Deliberation and Public Engagement Certificate Program

Submitted by Rob Janousek on June 14, 2010 - 8:19am
Fielding Graduate University is offering the Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certificate Program for a seventh year. This course will help you to develop mastery by working with a scholar-practitioner model of collaborative learning and reflective practice. An exceptional faculty of scholar-practitioners, who do real world work in diverse contexts and cultures, will support your learning and provide coaching for a culminating capstone project.

Developing mastery involves building the skills, knowledge and intuitive sensibility that are needed to make wise choices about how to bring forms of dialogue, deliberation, and engagement into situations where they are most effective.

For more information, please visit: http://www.fielding.edu/programs/ce/ddpe

COURSE DATES

August 16, 2010 - January 18, 2011

You should participate in this course and its on-going community of practice if you want to:

  • Learn about the field of dialogue and deliberation in conversation with those who are leading and shaping it;
  • Engage in structured, collaborative, and critical self-reflection focused on you as a practitioner;
  • Analyze specific situations and choose wisely what dialogue, deliberative or engagement process is most appropriate;
  • Understand how dialogic and deliberative processes work in some situations but not in others;
  • Develop diagnostic, design, and in-the-moment facilitation skills;
  • Explore conceptual and theoretical foundations of dialogic and deliberative practice; and,
  • Belong to an international community of practice of like-minded people.
The Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Course at Fielding Graduate University is part of an international partnership with the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. This course was designed in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, the Kettering Foundation, and the Public Dialogue Consortium. It is unique in its attention to the continuum of dialogue, deliberation, and engagement approaches within which to work and its emphasis on mastery through:
  • Learning to diagnose situations and make distinctions among various ways of working;
  • Developing a range of skills relevant to dialogue and deliberation; and
  • Applying scholarship through reflective practice in order to better understand ourselves and the larger systems in which we work.
  • Actively collaborating with a diverse group of peers who share a commitment to learning.