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The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Dialogues Program, housed under ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engage: The Center for Community-Based Learning and Research within the School of Education, serves the campus at large by providing facilitated dialogue coaching and dialogue practice for students, staff and faculty at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder and the broader ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ community. 

A dialogue is a facilitated conversation that invites participants to share their own perspectives and experiences and listen to others with curiosity. We understand dialogue as a communicative process differences (Zuniga et al, 2001). In designing dialogue experiences, we draw on multiple dialogue frameworks, including the University of Michigan’s intergroup dialogue framework, the Sustained Dialogue Insitute’s sustained dialogue approach, and Essential Partners’ reflective structured dialogue method. We understand deliberative dialogue to be the practice of thoughtful analysis of problems through dialogue, with the aim of reaching consensus and enacting change (Burkhalter et al, 2002).