Monday, August 28, 2023
10 am to 3 pm.
Live-streamed via Zoom from UW-Parkside
Attend in-person at your home university (lunch served), or attend individually from home. Participants may attend for a full day or for either session as they are able.
The sessions will not be recorded.
The Wisconsin classroom is a microcosm of the world beyond the university. Political, economic, social, and cultural conflicts sometimes arise that require faculty and instructors to facilitate dialogue.
- How do we create space for dialogue in our classrooms?
- How should we guide students with the necessary tools to communicate in productive ways – to listen, to articulate, to re-think one’s perspective?
- How can we engage students in conflict transformation and to build skills to apply to business, government, education, community life?
This systemwide interactive workshop is designed to engage participants in concepts and approaches to creating space in your classrooms for rich, respectful, and substantive dialogue.
Resources
When you think about it, there’s no single element in the world that’s not bonded to, flying away from, or catalytic with another element in the world. And every creature, even the smallest single-celled creature is in a thousand different conversations with a thousand other elements and dynamics and forms in order to keep itself alive and its environment alive. And every ecosystem in the world is this astonishing meeting, this conversation, between various dynamics that contribute to this central conversation of life.
One of the essential dynamics of the conversational nature of reality is, whatever you as an individual would like to happen in the world will not happen exactly as you would like it, but equally, whatever the world, your society, your organization, the people you serve in life want you to do will also not occur. You will not comply exactly as they would like you to comply. And what occurs is this third frontier, this conversational reality…
David Whyte in his Tedx Talk Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Nature of Reality
Slides
Handouts
Documents
Documents provided by Jonathan Shailor:
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- Herzig, M., & Chasin, L. (2006). Fostering dialogue across divides: A nuts and bolts guide from the Public Conversations Project. Watertown, MA: The Public Conversations Project.
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- Chen, V., Cobb, S., Shailor, J., and Carbaugh, D. (1986). Ceremonial Discourse: From Debate to Dialogue. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Unpublished report.
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- National Coalition Building Institute (n.d.). Peer Training Strategies for Welcoming Diversity. Washington, D.C. National Coalition Building Institute.
Online Resources
Resources provided by Jonathan Shailor:
- Braver Angels
- The Center for Nonviolent Communication
- The Circle Way
- Constructive Dialogue Initiative
- Essential Partners *Formerly The Public Conversations Project
- Everyday Democracy
- National Issues Forum
- Theatre for Living
Facilitators
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Dr. Sarah MacDonald, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, UW-Milwaukee – Inclusive Teaching Toward Justice
Dr. Sarah MacDonald works at UW-Milwaukee (UWM) as a specialist in conflict transformation and inclusive pedagogy. She developed and regularly facilitates Inclusive Teaching Toward Justice, a workshop series on inclusive classroom practices and course design. She also provides resources and presentations on related topics, such as trauma-informed teaching, community-building in the classroom, and strategies for engaging conflict constructively. Prior to joining UWM in 2018, Sarah earned a PhD in Ethics from Emory University, with a concentration in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Her research grew out of her previous work in international peacebuilding and nonviolent activism. She holds an MA in English from the University of Iowa and an MDiv from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. This variegated background informs all of Sarah’s current work at UWM. Beyond serving as a teaching consultant, she is a member of the Ombuds Council and teaches facilitation in the Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding program. |
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Dr. Jonathan Shailor, Communication, Conflict Analysis & Resolution Certificate Program, UW-Parkside
Dr. Jonathan Shailor (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts) is a Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UWP), where he is founder and director of the Certificate Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Over the past 28 years at UWP, he has taught 22 different courses, most recently, undergraduate and graduate courses in conflict transformation, mediation, dialogue, nonviolent communication, and restorative justice. Since 1995, Jonathan has also taught at Racine Correctional Institution (RCI) in Sturtevant, WI, including college courses that bring incarcerated and campus-based students together in the prison setting. In 2004, he established The Shakespeare Prison Project at RCI, which involves incarcerated men in the development of full-length productions for both prisoners and community audiences. In both the classroom and the community, Jonathan facilitates storytelling, dialogue, and performance for personal and social transformation. He has received several awards for teaching, including the UW System Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award in 2023. |
Host Location
UW-Parkside
Bedford Concert Hall, The Rita
Avenue of the Arts, Kenosha, WI 53144
Parkside Land Acknowledgement
We the Community of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside acknowledge with gratitude and humility the First Nations People of Wisconsin, whose original homelands lie within the state. We especially wish to recognize the Ho-Chunk, Miami, and Potawatomi Nations for their significant historical and spiritual connections with the Parkside area. Our footsteps do not replace theirs, but rest alongside them. Today, Wisconsin is home to 12 First Nations communities: the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the Menominee Nation, the Forest County Potawatomi Community, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans, the Brothertown Indian Nation, and six Lake Superior Bands of the Ojibwe Nation: the Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac du Flambeau, Mole Lake Sokaogan, Red Cliff, and Saint Croix bands. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside acknowledges and honors this history and these nations.
Event Acknowledgements
Jay O. Rothman
President, University of Wisconsin System
Johannes Britz, Ph.D.
Interim Senior Vice President, Office of Academic and Student Affairs, University of Wisconsin System
Tracy Davidson, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Office of Academic Affairs (OAA), University of Wisconsin System
Wisconsin Dialogues Organizers
Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Ph.D., Director, Office of Professional & Instructional Development (OPID) OAA
Amber Handy, Associate Vice Provost, UW-Parkside
Sarah Riforgiate, Interim Director for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UW-Milwaukee
Erin McGroarty, Program Associate, OAA
UW-Parkside
Alvaro Garcia, Professor, Music Department
Kevin Gray, Sound Manager Instructor, Theatre Arts Department
Alex Gray
Linda Wawiorka, Instructional Technology Manager, Campus Technology Services
Maggie Loney, Lecturer, Music Department
Hannah Ingram, Instructional Technology Specialist
Additional thanks to Dean Lesley Heins Walker for the use of Bedford Concert Hall and the Fine Art Gallery
UW System Teaching & Learning Centers
UW-Eau Claire Angie Stombaugh, Ph.D.
UW-Green Bay Kristin Vespia, Ph.D.
UW-La Crosse Kristin Koepke
UW-Madison Megan Schmid
UW- Milwaukee Sarah Riforgiate, Ph.D
UW-Oshkosh Jordan Landry, Ph.D.
UW-Parkside Amber Handy, Ph.D.
UW- Platteville Regina Nelson, Ph.D.
UW-River Falls Cyndi Kernahan, Ph.D.
UW-Stevens Point Erin Speetzen, Ph.D.
UW-Stout Sylvia Tiala, Ph.D.
UW-Superior Jamie White-Farnham, Ph.D.
UW-Whitewater Sue Wildermuth
Questions?
For university specific information: Contact your Center for Teaching & Learning Director.
For technical support: For registration help please contact Erin McGroarty, Office of Academic Affairs, UW System, emcgroarty@uwsa.edu, (608) 262-8778.
Those who need support on MONDAY AUG. 28th with Zoom should first try to contact Linda Wawiorka within the Zoom call itself. If unable to do so, email wawiorka@uwp.edu or reach out to Erin McGroarty, emcgroarty@uwsa.edu, (608) 262-8778.