Healing
Dialogue: Facilitation successes and
tools
28 January 2018
"Driven by the forces
of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come
into being."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(1881-1955)
French philospher and Jesuit priest
"Sometimes, all that is
needed to ease the door open for a broader conversation is to first
listen."
~ Rebecca Wolle (Eugene, Oregon USA)
https://beyondwarnw.org/listening/
"I
should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears."
~ Jelaluddin
Rumi (1207-1273)
Muslim Sufi mystic
Dialogue's
quality of listening-to-learn is one of the great acts of love and of
healing.
Dialogue communication transforms victims and perpetrators alike from
furious to curious.
Successful Dialogue humanizes, dignifies, and brings people closer --
strengthening family, creating community, and ending war.
Dialogue changes relationships -- and thus the balance of power -- toward
equality.
Like swimming, Dialogue's ideal entry
point is not into deep water, with difficult issues.
Dialogue best begins with extraordinary
listening to one another's personal narratives -- people's life
experiences, what has meaning for them.
Getting to know the other human being, we experience that "an enemy is one
whose story we have not heard."
Participants begin to want the best not only for self but for each other more
equally.
To begin 2018, for your long-term library we offer a small sample
of (1) successful experiences and (2) how-to tools -- fruits of 25 years of
Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue in California, USA.
To encourage and serve your own actions, several hundreds more of
successful domestic and international outreach initiatives are preserved for
you at http://traubman.igc.org/dg-prog.htm
and in Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-Palestinian_Living_Room_Dialogue_Group
Today
1. Facilitation Successes
2. How-to Tools
= = 1 = =
Facilitation
Successes
A.
CAMPUSES
California
State University, San Marcos (2014)
http://traubman.igc.org/sanmarcosdialogue.pdf
Georgetown University
(2002)
http://traubman.igc.org/gtown.htm
Granada Islamic School (2016) Story & Listening as Entry
to Interfaith Relationships & Community Building http://traubman.igc.org/islamicschooldialogue.pdf
Mercy High School (2009) Junior Class Reconciliation Dialogue
Junior Class Dialogue at Mercy High, Burlingame -- https://pix.sfly.com/zo5W7UG4
Notre
Dame de Namur University (2006 then 2017)
Campus Dialogue (2006)
http://traubman.igc.org/class.htm
Commencement Address (2017)
http://traubman.igc.org/ndnu2017address.pdf
University of California, Berkeley (2010) Crossing Cultural Lines
http://traubman.igc.org/calnight.htm
B.
CITIES
Charlotte,
North Carolina, USA (2009)
http://traubman.igc.org/charlottenight.htm
Photos
https://pix.sfly.com/q3KOzikn
Fresno,
California, USA
-- Crossing Lines in Fresno California
http://traubman.igc.org/vidfresno.htm
Houston, Texas, USA (2008) - A Call to Dialogue
https://traubman.igc.org/houstonevening.htm
San Mateo, California, USA (2010 then 2017)
Popcorn & Film Evening
http://traubman.igc.org/eveningprogram2010.pdf
Crossing Lines in San Mateo
http://traubman.igc.org/sanmateocrossinglines.htm
C. NATIONS
Cote
d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriaivorycoast.htm
Democratic Republic of Congo
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriadrcongo.htm
Global Video Bridge (2015)
http://traubman.igc.org/light2015.htm
Israelis and Palestinians (2003-2007) Palestinian-Jewish Family
Peacemaker Camps
http://traubman.igc.org/camp2007.htm
Korean-Japanese Skype-Facilitated Youth Reconciliation Dialogue (2013)
http://traubman.igc.org/korea-japan.pdf
Nigerian Religions and Tribes (2010)
Jos Youth Interfaith Dialogue (2010 onward)
http://traubman.igc.org/nigeria2010.htm
Bauchi Interfaith and Tribal Engagement (2010 onward)
http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigerianorth.htm
Trans-Asian Dialogue for Peace
and Reconciliation (2017)
http://traubman.igc.org/koreaconference2017.pdf
== 2 ==
How-to
Tools
A.
GRAPHICS AND SYMBOLS
Dialogue
vs. Usual Communication (13 languages)
http://traubman.igc.org/dialoguecommunication.htm
Dialogue and Change (English, Hebrew, Arabic)
http://traubman.igc.org/changechartsall.pdf
Human Relationship-deficiency Virus (HRV)
http://traubman.igc.org/nigeriahrv.pdf
B.
VIDEOS
Crossing
Lines in Fresno (2009) 29-min documentary
http://traubman.igc.org/vidfresno.htm
DIALOGUE IN NIGERIA: Muslims & Christians Creating Their Future
(2010) 65-minute documentary
https://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeria.htm
Dialogue at Washington High (2007) 42-minute documentary
http://traubman.igc.org/vidschool.htm
PEACEMAKERS: Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp
http://traubman.igc.org/vidcamp.htm
C.
FACILITATOR & TEACHER RESOURCES
Dialogue
vs. Debate
http://traubman.igc.org/dialogue-debate.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions About Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue
http://traubman.igc.org/faq.htm
Facilitator Guidelines
90-120 minute experience
http://traubman.igc.org/vidschoolguide.pdf
55-min experience
http://traubman.igc.org/engagingtheother.pdf
Camp and Classroom Activities for Relationship Building (Illustrated)
http://traubman.igc.org/campacts.pdf
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This message is on the Web at https://traubman.igc.org/messages/710.htm
Hundreds of other success stories are preserved at https://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm