SFU offers programs, courses, and events that cultivate dialogue
Convening Dialogue
We create opportunities for public audiences, students, non-profit organizations, industry and government to meet together around issues affecting our community.
Capacity Building
We offer certificate, diploma, continuing education and credit courses that involve participants in effective dialogue and seed a dialogue culture across multiple sectors and levels of decision-making.
Consultation Services
We can provide dialogue facilitation, event planning, leadership training, meeting advice and design, strategic analysis and research to assist groups in producing meaningful dialogue-based programming for internal or public initiatives.
12 days of compassion with karen armstrong
From March 19-30, 2012, we will be hosting a citywide conversation on compassion with world-renowned author Karen Armstrong and present Armstrong with the prestigious Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue. The visit will also mark the launch of the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network, part of an international movement to build compassionate communities, inspired in part by Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion.
centre for dialogue upcoming highlights
Our new newsletter sent to friends of dialogue every other month highlighting upcoming activities at the Centre for Dialogue.
Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue
An intensive learning experience that uses dialogue to focus student education on a different community issue every semester.