I am so passionate about Dialogue Education and camping that I just couldn’t stop myself from bringing these two together while on a camping trip in northern Canada last week… Arrange your chairs, or whatever you sitting around the fire pit on, in a circle to ensure...
10 Ways to Get Some Quick Feedback
As a facilitator, it is important to get feedback from the group you’re working with to hear what they think of both the content they are learning and how they are learning it. Here are some ideas for gathering feedback that don’t take much time. For each of these,...
15 Tips for Effectively Working with Interpreters
By Jeanette Romkema and Christine Little Interpreters are crucial partners when facilitating dialogue in multilingual groups. The goal of any training, workshop, presentation or meeting is to build…
10 Tips for Using Guidelines
Using guidelines during a learning or work event can be extremely helpful (and sometimes paramount to a successful session!). Below are a few things to keep in mind for ensuring they are relevant, needed, and meaningful. Use Guidelines for especially difficult groups...
10 Tips for Co-Facilitating
Teaching, training, or facilitating with someone else is very different from doing the same work on your own. Here are some tips to ensure you are successful: Check in with each other in advance. As soon as you know you will be working with each other, get together to...
10 Tips for Being an Effective Board Member
Everyone strives to have a “full board,” but filling the seats is not enough. A board is most effective and healthy when its members intentionally work at their role…
10 Tips for Being a Strong Board Chair
There is a good reason why board members are not standing in line to be the chair – it is hard work! Below are some tips to help you in this challenging role. It is often true that the stronger the board chair, the stronger the board. *These tips have been...
10 Tips for Being a Healthy Board of Directors
Having the right people at the right time during the life of an organization is a significant accomplishment for any board of directors. Ensuring everyone is working together with a common focus and complimentary efforts is an even bigger accomplishment. Below are...
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,...
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...
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...