When: Five online sessions August 25, 26, September 1, and 28, 2010, and March 16, 2011, 1:30-3:00 CST; and a face-to-face session on October 13, 2010, 9:30-4:00 p.m.
Where: Online sessions with Adobe Connect; and face-to-face session in Columbia, Missouri
Contact: Sandra Hodge, Phone: 573-882-4435, E-mail: hodges@missouri.edu
For more information including a course schedule click on the dowload link below.
How many times has a public issue come up in your community that is contentious and needs to be solved but people just can't seem to agree on how to move forward or what should be done?
People may try to come together but just can't agree on what the problem really is or what to do. They may entrench on their positions, and meetings degenerate into polarized camps or shouting matches. People leave and swear to themselves "Never again!! They just can't seem to be able to move forward--the community just doesn't know how to get through these issues.
Or how many times have you wanted to figure out a way to have a community dialogue and determine what can be done locally around a complex public issue at the state or national level?
This workshop will help you understand what makes public issues so difficult, how public issues get named, how to frame an issue that engages the public, how to convene a process as a collaborative learning experience, moderating and recording skills and how to go beyond “just talk”.
