Contents Foreword?Beverly Daniel Tatum ?ix Acknowledgments ?xi Introduction ?1 1. ?Introduction to IGD: What Is IGD? ?7 Kristie Ford and Kelley Maxwell 2. ?Key Identity Concepts for IGD Facilitators to Know ?15 Section A: Key Social Identity Concepts for IGD Facilitators to Know ?17 Sara Crider and Danny Alvarez Section B: Privilege, Power, and Oppression-Core Terminology ?25 Christina Morton and Meaghan Wheat 3. ?Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Techniques ?32 Section A: The Role of Facilitators ?34 Deborah Slosberg and Monita Thompson Section B: Equalizing Power Dynamics: Multipartiality, Dominant and Counter-Narratives ?39 Christina Morton and Cesar Vargas-Leon Section C: Challenging Dynamics in Intergroup Dialogue ?47 Mark Chesler and Roger Fisher 4. ?Models of Dialogue ?60 Section A: Co-Facilitator Observations From Faculty and Staff Intergroup Dialogues ?62 Erika Crews, Michael Kaplowitz, and Charles "charlie" Liu Section B: Facilitating Race Dialogues With High School Students ?70 Roger Fisher and Donna Rich Kaplowitz Section C: Online Dialogues: Their Benefits and Facilitation Challenges ?76 Anna Yeakley Section D: Setting the Context for Dialogue in the Workplace ?81 Trey Boynton and Taryn Petryk Section E: Dialogues in Instructor Development ?85 Tazin Daniels and Shana Schoem Section F: International Dialogue ?89 Alice Mishkin and Rima Hassouneh Section G: Just Sayin'-Some Opinions About Facilitation ?93 Charles Behling Section H: Dialogue and Movement Organizing ?98 Sariah Metcalfe 5. ?Passing the Torch: An Intergenerational Dialogue About Dialogue ?102 Participants: ? Founders: Pat Gurin, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ximena Zuniga Emerging Leaders: Emely Hernandez Rubio, Olivia "Ollie" Jayakar, Cesar Vargas-Leon, and Meaghan Wheat 6. ?Well-Being and Facilitation ?115 adrienne maree brown and Stephanie Hicks Appendix A: Insight 1: What Is Intergroup Dialogue? ?133 Appendix B: Insight 2: Learning to Listen ?135 Appendix C: Insight 3: Developing Community Guidelines ?137 Appendix D: Insight 4: The Four Levels of Oppression ?139 Appendix E: Insight 5: Facilitator Personal Assessment Chart ?141 Appendix F: Insight 6: The Master/Dominant Narrative, Counter Narratives, and Multipartiality ?144 Adapted from the works of Janet Rifkin, J.D., and Leah Wing, EdD Appendix G: Insight 7: Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation ?146 Appendix H: Insight 8: Strategies for Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom ?148 Appendix I: Insight 9: Microaggressions-A Primer ?150 Appendix J: Insight 10: Interrupting Bias-The PALS Approach ?152 Appendix K: Insight 11: How to Apologize-Re-Aact ?154 Appendix L: Strategies for Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue Online ?155 Anna M. Yeakley Appendix M: IGD Facilitation: Some Suggestions ?161 References ?167 Index ?173 About the Editors and Contributors ?179
This much-needed guide provides the specific skills and materials necessary to facilitate effective dialogues across identity differences. We are living through arguably one of the most divisive times in our country and the world. People do not know how to communicate across differences in a way that advances the public good-from the international halls of power to local city governments to classrooms to family dinners. The consequences are devastating-from hate-fueled conflicts and mass shootings to teachers who do not know how to address problematic comments in the classroom. This book responds to the urgent need to address complicated, intense, and oftentimes personal differences in a productive way. Written for both novice and experienced facilitators, it offers concrete materials to use in classrooms and other settings, along with anecdotes, vignettes, and hard-earned lessons based on the authors' own experiences. By capturing conversations among leaders in the field and emergent practitioners, Facilitating Transformational Dialogues emanates optimistic energy and time-tested wisdom from the fields of Intergroup Relations and Intergroup Dialogue. Book Features: ? A roadmap for school, university, and community leaders to navigate the implementation of dialogues. ? An exploration into why talking about power in intimate cross-identity dialogue settings is key to dismantling systems of oppression. ? A primer on the foundations of facilitation with specific suggestions for pre- and inservice teachers, professors, youth advisors, school administrators, business leaders, and everyone interested in promoting dialogue across difference. ? An extended conversation around intergroup dialogue that includes a chapter on well-being for facilitators. ? A range of strategies for implementing dialogues, from using peer, near-peer, teacher, or consultant-based facilitating frameworks. ? A curriculum that has been field tested in dozens of settings with high school and college students, faculty, professors, and community leaders. ? A dialogue between the founders of intergroup dialogue in higher education and emerging leaders in the field. ? A companion to Race Dialogues: A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom by Donna Rich Kaplowitz, Shayla Reese Griffin, and Sheri Seyka
Stephanie D. Hicks is a lecturer at the Program on Intergroup Relations and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Donna Kaplowitz is the LSA faculty co-director of The Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan, and coauthor of Race Dialogues: Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom.