Dialogic Facilitation with Wendy Low

Dialogic Facilitation – Creating Space for Deep Listening and Relationship Repair

In the midst of polarized discourse and fractured relationships, dialogic facilitation offers a different path. The goal isn't agreement, but understanding. In this NOVA Scribes workshop, we’ll explore facilitation techniques grounded in the principles of dialogue: suspending judgment, listening deeply, surfacing assumptions, and creating space for reflection and inquiry.

Drawing from resources like Holding Change, Not Light, but Fire by Matthew R. Kay, Resetting the Table, and the Sustained Dialogue Institute Handbook, this workshop centers facilitation as a relational, transformative practice. Dialogic facilitation does not steer participants toward consensus or outcomes; it prioritizes the quality of the interaction encouraging moments of mutual recognition, clarity, and healing.

You’ll learn how to:

• Design and facilitate LifeMaps: influential moments of time
• Create psychological safety for vulnerability and truth-telling
• Intervene skillfully to foster depth, clarity, and connection
• Support groups in slowing down and moving from positions to values
• Apply frameworks from Sustained Dialogue and Resetting the Table to your own contexts

Whether you're facilitating community dialogues, conflict transformation, or simply seeking to strengthen the connective tissue in your work, this workshop will deepen your capacity to hold space for what matters most: people seeing and hearing one another.

Who this is for:
Facilitators, mediators, educators, organizers, coaches, and anyone committed to relationship-centered group process.

Wendy Low has made a career out of bridging differences by facilitating discussions, coaching, and designing curriculum that encourages engagement with topics that most people run away from. She helps people communicate better by transforming the invisible into moments of clarity. She believes in the power of diverse perspectives and the energetic engagement of differences to create a more connected, pluralistic, and productive society.

www.wendylow.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-a-low

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NOVA Scribes has entered into a partnership with the IFVP: the International Forum of Visual Practitioners! This workshop is part of IFVP Learning.

This workshop will be recorded and posted on YouTube for anyone who cannot attend. You can find the YouTube link in the Comments section of this NOVA Scribes Meetup event once the workshop video has been uploaded to YouTube.

We’re not charging for this workshop, but we will be asking for donations! Donations cover the costs of hosting events on Meetup, to honorariums for new graphic recorders, and scholarships.

Please be sure you are registered on Meetup! If your Zoom name doesn’t match your name on Meetup, you will not be admitted. (We’ve had Zoom bombers.)