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...
Bringing the Sacred into Learning
The above image was drawn on one of our tables by a participant over the period of our 7-day course. Last week we had the honor of teaching the course Designing Learner-Centered Training for Conflict Transformation at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) at...
Dialogue Education in the University: Creating the Environment for Learning
This is just one resource in a series to support the application of Dialogue Education to higher education. For more resources, we invite you to check out our Teaching at the University collection. By Jeanette Romkema and Dan Haase NOTE: These tips were...
Inclusion Means ALL
I have a raging new agenda: inclusion. I believe this agenda will be a great challenge to me and to all Dialogue Educators since we see the value in small groups working together to learn via learning tasks. In the words of Danah Zohar, we want to hear...
The Art and Skill of Engaging People
As more leaders recognize that working in silos does not achieve the extraordinary results that can come with cross-department, cross-discipline, and cross-sectoral collaboration, the question becomes: “How do we engage people?”
Fire, Flora, and Food: Lessons from Abroad Enliven Dialogue Education
Winding our way through Bali last spring, we observed people throughout the island offer small, hand-woven baskets to their gods. These daily baskets were lovingly filled with sandalwood incense, fresh flowers, and a local food item such as fish, or other real food,...
Introverts vs. Extroverts: Tips for Designing and Facilitating
By Valerie Uccellani and Jeanette Romkema Adapted from Susan Cain’s Quiet p342-344 and p348-9 Design Tips to Honour Introverted Learners: Include solo work as well as pair and small group work. All of us get a boost out of solo work – even if we are...
Where Aboriginal Practice and Dialogue Education Meet
At the beginning of summer I had the opportunity to take a course for professional development. It was a course offered by the Canadian School of Peacebuilding and the instructor was the author Rupert Ross The content of his book Returning to the Teachings:...
The Incredible Power of Silence in Learning
Participants relishing their productive silence at the October 2014 Foundations of Dialogue Education workshop in San Diego, CA With the speed of life and technology, it seems that many of us are managing our lives in 10-minute increments. Even that 10 minutes...
Tips for Supporting Young Introverts
By Valerie Uccellani and Jeanette Romkema Adapted by Global Learning Partners from Susan Cain’s Quiet p345-347 Don’t just accept a child for who she is; treasure her. As long as they’re in settings that suit them, introverted children...
Ways to Support Change When Language or Memory Is a Challenge
by Kathy Hickman, Jeanette Romkema and Elaine Wiersma When language or memory is a challenge for learners we need to find other ways to support a learner’s learning and plan for transfer. Here are a few ideas to consider. Take a photo of the learner with his...