I took the Foundations of Dialogue Education course with Global Learning Partners (GLP) in October 2017. The most powerful take-away for me was to think about what the learners will be doing with the content rather than what I will be saying or presenting....
Creating Trauma-Informed Spaces that Support Learning
Safety is a profound way of showing respect for the learner. - Jane Vella Trauma-informed practices are all the rage across disciplines as we learn more about trauma and how it impacts so many of us. Even while traveling on an airline recently (hardly the bastion of...
The Importance of Asking WHY
We ask the why question before determining the appropriate content and learning objectives. – Jane Vella In the online training world, there are interesting obstacles to designing for a learning-centered event. Some of these include, how to incorporate interactive...
A Dialogue Approach Transforms Corporate Training: A Spectacular Example
Global Learning Partners-certified practitioner Margaret Bean recently reflected on her years as a leader in the Learning and Development department of 7-Eleven. From her reflections, we extracted Six Tips that are helpful for all of us as we bring dialogue-based...
A Conference to Remember
Recently, NeighbourLink North York hosted “Bridging Generations,” the third intergenerational conference in the series “Let’s Get Connected.” Their goal was to invite 50 youth and 50 seniors to come for a day of learning and fun. At the start of the day everyone was...
An Approach that Invites Connections
One thing that a learning-centered approach helps learners do is connect. It is with this connection that learners can more fully and easily learn. It is with this type of connecting that we maximize the possibility of real change.
One Funeral, Two Learning Tasks
On February 1, 2018 my colleague and friend Karen Ridout died suddenly and unexpectedly. When I heard there would be a prayer service a few days later to honour and celebrate her life, my husband and I jumped on a plane to join family and friends to pay our respects...
How to Ensure Effective and Efficient Meetings
At the end of our graduate class “Community Development: The Art of Facilitation and Design” with Jeanette Romkema we reflected on how principles and practices of Dialogue Education could also help ensure more effective and efficient meetings. It was eye-opening! Most...
Ways to Ensure Off-site Participation During In-Person Meetings
Increasingly many Boards, committee, working groups, and organizations need to meet in a way that is mixed or hybrid. Often, we have a meeting and want or need to bring in participants from other branch offices, cities or countries. When we do this the people...
Performance Reviews: Something to Look Forward to
Recently, a client emailed me a few questions, unrelated to the work we were doing together. She was on a human resources committee and was working to revamp their performance review process. She was wondering, “Does Global Learning Partners have any resources for...
Engaging Graduate Students to Deepen Learning
I was first introduced to Jane Vella’s steps of design and the world of Dialogue Education™ during my graduate studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. To say that my world was flipped upside-down would be an understatement. I found it extremely encouraging to know...
Tracing: From Decision Back to Principles and Practices
After completing the Foundations of Dialogue Educationourse in Vermont with Michael Culliton, Peter Perkins and Kate LaRose, Rev. Christine MacDowall kindly flew down to Raleigh to spend a week with me. Imagine! Christine had flown from Melbourne, Australia to Vermont...