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Dialogue, Deliberation & Public Engagement Certificate
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.

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.

Core Faculty and Facilitators:

 

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
David Isaacs World Café
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. The faculty were incredible facilitators for learning as well as resources shaping our application projects. "

-Alice Warner-Mehlhorn, PhD, Alumna
Program Director, Policy W.K.
Kellogg Foundation

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ADMISSION PREREQUISITE

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

COURSE CREDIT

8 graduate academic credits - Units articulate
to the masters program in OMD and the doctoral program in HOD

TUITION

$3,990
Early Bird: $3,740
Early Bird Registration Deadline: July 16

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

REGISTER ONLINE NOW!

This program is offered in partnership with the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney.



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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. The faculty were incredible facilitators for learning as well as resources shaping our application projects. "

-Alice Warner-Mehlhorn
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