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 Introductions › Graffiti Wall  21 st Century Skills – Engagement of New Strategies › Facilitated Dialogue › Arc of Dialogue

 Facilitate informal dialogue with visitors and staff  Identify and offer audience-centered experiences with park resources  Lay the foundation for peer coaching and mentoring

1. Withhold judgment and seek first to understand perspectives of others 2. Be aware of your own “voice” and the need for everyone to be heard. 3. Respect the confidentiality of the group. 4. Feel free to change your mind during the course of the dialogue. 5. Be willing to examine your own assumptions

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 Interprets history through sites  Engages in programs that stimulate dialogue on pressing social issues  Promotes humanitarian and democratic values as primary function;  Shares opportunities for public involvement in issues raised at the site.

 To facilitate meaningful, memorable experiences with diverse audiences so that they can create their own connections (on- site and virtually) with your site resources (audience desires)

 Process – Arc of Dialogue  Site specific content  Dialogue Questions

 Phase 1 – › Community Building and Ice-Breaker  Phase 2 – › Sharing the Diversity of Experiences  Phase 3 – › Exploring Diversity of Experiences Beyond Our Personal Experiences  Phase 4 – › Synthesizing the Experience

 What unique, site-specific value, issue or topic could dialogue enhance?  Brainstorm a list for every site in the group

 Site significance

 In your group pick one topic to brainstorm thru the arc of dialogue process

 Initial thoughts on the topic  Share their impressions  Build the learning community

 When building questions, remember... › To keep the questions open-ended; there shouldn’t be a “right” answer › To ask questions visitors can answer from personal experience alone › The goal of a good questions is to provide the thought and discussion, not instruct › Questions with the words “you” and/or “we” in them often work the best.

 This about their own experiences related to the topic  Share experience  Begin to make personal connection to the topic  Help participants to recognized how their experiences are alike and different

 Explore the dialogue topic beyond participants’ personal experiences  Engages in inquiry and exploration about the dialogue topic in an effort to learn with and from one another

 Identify and make meaning from the “threads” that connect the ideas, perspectives, and insights generated  Help the group to reflect on the dialogue and what they learned

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 Introductions › Graffiti Wall  21 st Century Skills – › Engagement of New Strategies › Facilitated Dialogue › Arc of Dialogue

Amanda Rowland Education and Outreach Specialist Lake Mead NRA