Tag: communication skills

Seeing Communities as Partners

Seeing Communities as Partners

Understanding the Existing Strengths of a Community Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting a fun activity that uses role playing to help participants imagine communities as partners, rather than...

Developing an Awareness of Stakeholders: A Podcast Interview with Lori Britt

Developing an Awareness of Stakeholders: A Podcast Interview with Lori Britt

Who should be in the room? Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting Activity 5.2 Developing an Awareness of Stakeholders, designed to help participants think deeply and methodically about who...

Identifying Knowledge in the Community

Identifying Knowledge in the Community

Crafting Knowledge Trees Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting a fun activity that helps participants tease out all the different kinds of knowledge they have gained throughout their lives....

Encouraging Bold Imagination

Encouraging Bold Imagination

Telling the History of the Future Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting an activity designed to help discussion participants imagine beyond what they currently think is possible. Sometimes problems...

Civic Sweet Sixteen: A Podcast Interview with Jessica Friedrichs

Civic Sweet Sixteen: A Podcast Interview with Jessica Friedrichs

Exploring Civic Passions Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting Activity 5.1 Identifying Your Civic Passion, designed to help discussion participants figure out which civic topics are of greatest concern...

Reflecting on Social Identity in Collaborative Discussion

Reflecting on Social Identity in Collaborative Discussion

Introducing the Identity Pie Activity Dear collaborative discussion friends, This time we are highlighting an activity that helps to build self-awareness about our social and cultural identities. It explores the meanings we...

Measuring Emotional Charge in Collaborative Discussion

Measuring Emotional Charge in Collaborative Discussion

Tools for supporting critical feeling Dear collaborative discussion friends, This time we are sharing an activity that helps to gauge the emotional charge of a discussion. By examining the feelings that participants...

The Role of Values in Collaborative Discussion

The Role of Values in Collaborative Discussion

Understanding ourselves and others Dear collaborative discussion friends, This time we are highlighting two activities that help to identify personal and shared values. The activities examine how values show up in discussions...

Expanding Thinking with Metaphors

Expanding Thinking with Metaphors

Using metaphors as a way to enhance or “unstick” a discussion Dear collaborative discussion friends, This time we are focusing on an activity that can be used to help “unstick” groups. Sometimes...

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