Services at a Glance
We can assist you with dialogue-based programming for public events, conferences, public forums, community consultations, strategic planning, workshops, and retreats. Whether internal or public, large or intimate, we will help you to build an effective and powerful dialogue experience. We offer:
Partner with a SFU Student
We offer unique opportunities to include students in your dialogue event.
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Consultation and Program Development
We have extensive experience in developing dialogue formats for diverse sectors and organizations. We will help you with concepts, structure, and content that will yield outstanding dialogues and result in highly productive outcomes.
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Facilitation
Our facilitation background ranges broadly from complex multi-stakeholder events about contentious international issues to neighborhood forums on local matters. Our trained facilitators use innovative techniques in dialogue to bring out the creative, collaborative, and action-oriented virtues of any organization, company, or team.
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Collaboration
Simon Fraser University has many ongoing and emerging initiatives, and there likely is one that relates to your topic. If so, we will gladly explore opportunities for a joint venture. We also can connect you with external partners that may offer funding and resources.
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Thinking on your feet: writing and speaking with deadlines
We offer sessions that will improve the ability of participants to think quickly, speak fluidly, and write clearly and effectively under short deadlines. We work with your group to engage in rapid-fire "talking on your feet" and "writing to deadline"" exercises that work on drawing quickly from personal experience.
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The focus is on speaking and writing with clarity and impact. To improve verbal abilities, we work on the structure/organization of oral presentations, and also on pacing, voice modulation, volume, body language, audience engagement, eye contact, and how to draw from experiences and expertise in responding quickly and clearly to questions.
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For writing, short exercises are followed by two to three rounds of intensive group feedback, editing, and revisions. Our focus is on increasing impact through succinctness, simplicity, and bringing key messages front and centre, with an eye to writing appropriately for different audiences. Our "markets" include opinion newspaper/magazine articles, internal memos, reports, strategic plans, press releases, web sites, and others.
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Our fundamental objective is to cut out half the words and get to the point.
Our services for business include facilitation, consultation, and program development for internal meetings, industry-wide workshops, and public events. Dialogue is particularly valuable for businesses that are seeking to build solid foundations for strong work relationships, heighten innovation, and find practical solutions to complex corporate challenges. We will help your company reach its full potential.
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Internal Dialogue
We offer a range of services for the workplace, including: assistance with routine meetings, conflict resolution, strategic planning, team building, and internal workshops. Dialogue will bring cohesiveness to your group, revitalize your meetings, smooth organizational dynamics, and streamline productivity.
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Industry-wide Dialogue: Workshops and Conferences
Dialogue can help you invigorate your next industry workshop or conference. Participants move beyond the usual static meeting into novel and engaging formats where innovations flourish.
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Public Dialogue
Dialogue provides the opportunity to promote best practices in the public arena, while allowing you to tap into your greatest resources: your clients, and the community around you. Dialogue generates healthy work-client relationships, solid business networks, allows diverse ideas to build, and produces integrative solutions and resilient action plans.
Dialogue is particularly valuable for non-profits that want to establish strong coalitions on issues of importance to your organization. Dialogue also is an effective tool to build cohesion and resourcefulness among staff, in addition to stimulating collaborative solutions to complex issues in public forums.
We realize that resources can be scarce in the non-profit sector, and we can work with you to explore funding options and partnerships. Your event may be eligible for funding through the Centre for Dialogue’s Bruce and Lis Welch Community Award.
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Public Dialogue
Are you looking for an effective way to build cohesion and momentum among a diverse audience? From small public workshops to larger multi-stakeholder forums, our experts will help transform your event into a collaborative effort. Through the respectful exploration of varying perspectives, participants will work together to produce innovative solutions to deep-rooted issues.
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Internal Dialogue
We offer a range of services for staff, including: assistance with conflict resolution, relationship building, strategic planning, and internal workshops. Dialogue will inspire collaboration within your group, motivate passion, and cultivate healthy work relationships in your organization.
Are you looking to engage the public on your academic topic? We offer facilitation, consultation, and program development for professional meetings, workshops, public forums, and conferences. Dialogues are ideal for interdisciplinary initiatives and for reaching out to diverse audiences because they transform conflicting concepts into collaborative innovation. The result is an event that produces novel ideas and resilient solutions.
Dialogue is an effective tool to explore solutions to complex problems. We offer consultation, facilitation, and program development for internal matters, policy development, and partnership initiatives. Dialogue brings cohesiveness to diverse groups and collaborative solutions to the civic arena.
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Public Dialogue
Are you looking for an effective way to build cohesion and momentum among a diverse audience? We offer facilitation, consultation, and program development for small public workshops to larger multi-stakeholder forums. Dialogue can transform your public event into a productive, efficient, and consensus-building meeting.
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Dialogue for Policy Development
Dialogue builds cohesion by allowing diversity to coalesce around common themes, yielding effective and integrative approaches to your policy development initiatives. Our experts can help you tap into your greatest resource, the public, to include a multitude of ideas and perspectives, leading to policies that serve diverse interests and satisfy public scrutiny.
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Dialogue for Partnerships
Governments often are involved in multiple partnerships with the private sector, non-profits and other non-governmental organizations. Dialogue can encourage effective communication and advance the progress of joint ventures.
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Internal Dialogue
We offer a range of services for staff, including: assistance with routine meetings, conflict resolution, strategic planning, team building, and internal workshops. Dialogue will enhance work productivity by revitalizing your meetings and smoothing organizational dynamics.
