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Dialogue, Deliberation & Public Engagement Certificate
This certificate program 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.

You should participate in this program 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 Certificate Program at Fielding Graduate University is part of an international partnership with the University of Sydney, Australia. The program 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 and deliberation 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.
  • A collaborative learning experience with peers.
We have also partnered with Ascentum, utilizing their unique dialoguecircles online platform as one approach to engagement.

Core Faculty and Collaborators:

Dr. Hal Saunders
Dr. Barnett Pearce
Dr. Phil Stewart
Dr. Jan Elliott
Dr. Keith Melville
Dr. Linda Blong
Dr. Kath Fisher
Dr. Lyn Carson
Dr. John Dedrick

Scholar-Practitioner Phone Dialogues with Leading Figures in Dialogue, Deliberation & Public Engagement

Previous Scholar-Practitioner guests have included:

Carolyn Lukensmeyer AmericaSpeaks
Jane Mansbridge Award-winning deliberative democracy scholar
Robert Stains Public Conversations Project
Janette Hartz Karp Australian innovator deliberative approaches
Jim Fishkin Creator of the deliberative poll
Frank Barrett Appreciative Inquiry Summits
Shawn Spano Public Dialogue Consortium
Joseph Peters Ascentum Dialoguecircles (on-line deliberation)
John Gastil Scholar in deliberative democracy
Martha McCoy Executive Director, Everyday Democracy
Juanita Brown World Café
Dabid Isaacs World Café
Lyn Carson Australian scholar practitioner in deliberation
Adam Kahane Change in Complex Systems
Kim Pearce Public Dialogue Consortium

What are people saying?

"Altogether an outstanding experience. I recommend the program for anyone who works in a policy context on social systems change. This program holds the value added benefits of deep exploration of theories of change and exciting conversations with diverse scholar-practitioners that break the shackles off the imagination. Dialogue, deliberation and public engagement are skill driven capacities that rarely find their way to policy decisions. The learning from this experience helped me better understand gaps in policy processes and decisions and critical capacities for the public and policymakers if we want more effective and responsive policy. The faculty were incredible facilitators for learning as well as resources shaping our application projects. "

-Alice Warner-Mehlhorn, PhD, Student
Program Director, Policy W.K.
Kellogg Foundation
Fielding teacher discussing course materials

ADMISSION PREREQUISITE

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited school in the US, or its equivalent.

COURSE CREDIT

4 graduate academic credit units - Units articulate
to the masters program in OMD and the doctoral program in HOD

TUITION

$3,990
Early Bird: $3,740
Deadline Extended to July 25

NCDD and IAP2 members receive a 10% discount
Fielding degree students and alumni receive a 20% discount

REGISTER ONLINE NOW!

Upcoming Information Sessions

What are people saying?

"Altogether an outstanding experience. I recommend the program for anyone who works in a policy context on social systems change. This program holds the value added benefits of deep exploration of theories of change and exciting conversations with diverse scholar-practitioners that break the shackles off the imagination. Dialogue, deliberation and public engagement are skill driven capacities that rarely find their way to policy decisions. The learning from this experience helped me better understand gaps in policy processes and decisions and critical capacities for the public and policymakers if we want more effective and responsive policy. The faculty were incredible facilitators for learning as well as resources shaping our application projects. "

-Alice Warner-Mehlhorn


Have Questions?

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