This is the third in a series of interviews conducted by Joan Dempsey, GLP's Dialogue Education Community Director, with people who believe deeply in the power of dialogue to influence learning that lasts. Today's interview is with GLP Partner, Michael...
The Importance of Written Tasks
Blogger Saba Yassin teaching with GLP Senior Partner, Peter Noteboom, in Amman, Jordan. Why do we have to create a visual of our learning tasks? Can’t we just give out verbal instructions? Why do students need more than that? I can’t begin to count how...
Meta–Culture: Talking for Understanding, Listening for Change
(Note from GLP: We hope you enjoy learning a bit about our friends at Meta-Culture in India!) How do you get people to listen to each other’s side of the story when, because of a number of social, cultural, and historic reasons, different groups have been...
An Interview with Valerie Uccellani, GLP Senior Partner
Global Learning Partners (GLP): What’s your favorite axiom, and why? Valerie Uccellani (Val): Pray for Doubt. Funny. I didn’t used to like this one. In fact, when we taught axioms in the introductory course, I sometimes deleted it from the binder; I didn’t...
Persons with Disabilities: A Story From the Field
Unbelievably to me, and even at first unnoticed by me in the large ballroom style conference room that was being productive and facilitated through dialogue, the facilitator was blind, unable to see the people and setting in the room with his eyes. Led at the elbow,...
Persons with Disabilities: From Experience to Principles
I am a visual learner so I tend to prioritize visual learning when designing learning experiences: showing what I mean using diagrams and pictures, drawing on visual metaphors to invite new connections, and calling on learners to draw tables, flow charts, and diagrams that demonstrate causal or relational links from one idea or action to the next.
An Interview with Peter Noteboom, GLP Senior Partner
What’s your favorite axiom, and why? My favorite axiom is “pray for doubt”. The reason why it is my favorite is that it is both counter-intuitive and powerful. It is counter-intuitive because often facilitators avoid or dread doubt, and see it as a negative...
Women Writing for (a) Change, In a Circle
"A circle of women is a nurturing and sustaining resource that can become a spiritual and psychological wellspring tapped into whenever the circle meets." ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen, Urgent Message from Mother A friend tells the story of a time when she was...
An Interview with Jeanette Romkema, GLP Senior Partner
Jeanette Romkema with co-facilitator Marshall Yoder, GLP Certified Teacher. What’s your favorite axiom, and why? Pray for Doubt. I pray for the learners to question, struggle with, and doubt the new content and learning journey I take them on. For me,...
Lavish Praise!
I had the great fortune to take my first Dialogue Education course back in 2001 at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute with two facilitators named Peter Noteboom and Jane Vella. At the time, I remember it as a...
10 Tips for Managing Data to Document Learning & Change
By GLP Senior Partner Jeanette Romkema and GLP Partner Christine Little. It can be challenging to collect meaningful data from participants while facilitating dialogue. There we stand at the flip chart with markers in hand, racing to get their insights up on the wall...
Beta, Baby!
By Marian Darlington-Hope and Karen Ridout The Internet increasingly provides a multitude of tools that provide opportunities for learning. At the Building Learning Communities Conference a few years ago, the title of one presentation declared “It’s no...