Workshops help U-M community members build skills to engage in dialogue, listening, and perspective taking. These sessions are presented by experts from The Program on Intergroup Relations and the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center (DDNRC).
Workshop resources
Upcoming sessions
See links below to register for upcoming webinars from the Difficult Dialogues Meet the Moment Initiative.
May 15
Braver Angels: Depolarizing Ourselves
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Virtual
Audience: U-M only (students, faculty and staff)
Level: Introductory
Facilitator(s): Braver Angels
May 28
What Does Dialogue Feel Like?
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | In Person, LSA Multipurpose Room 1040
Audience: U-M only (students, faculty and staff)
Level: Introductory
Facilitator(s): danny alvarez
Difficult Dialogues toolkit
Explore our living toolkit of resources used in Difficult Dialogues Meet the Moment webinars and sourced from participants.
Past webinars and resources
Previous webinars
- May 7: Multipartiality in Dialogue
- April 9: Feedback: How to Give It, Get It, and Not Sweat It
- April 2: Dialogue Michigan
- March 27: DDNRC: Dialogue When There Is a Disagreement About Facts
- March 13: Responding to Offensive Jokes and Microaggressions
- February 27: Inclusive Teaching When You Have Strong Opinions
- February 20: DDNRC: How do we do dialogue work in a time of resistance?
- February 13: Bringing Dialogic Skills to the Work Team
- February 6: Five Dialogue Basics for Everyone
- January 30: Bodily Responses to Conflict and Techniques to Soothe the Nervous System
- January 27: Five Dialogue Basics for Graduate Students
- December 4: Deep Dive Follow Up Community of Care: Creating Mindful Post-Election and Post Holiday Spaces
- November 20: Dialogue Across the Holiday Table
- November 13: Community of Care: Creating Mindful Post-Election Spaces and Strategies for Dialogue
- November 7: Deep Dive into Trauma Informed Dialogues
- October 25: Interrupting Hot Moments in the Classroom
- October 23: Interrupting Hot Moments in the Workplace
- October 17: Navigating Trauma-Informed Dialogues
- October 11: Deep Dive on Communication Skills Practice
- September 27: Extended learning
- September 27: Meeting the Moment: Workshop Series on Skills and Resources for Challenging Conversations on Campus
