DIALOGUE RESOURCES

The practice of dialogue is central to nearly all Karuna Center programs. The mutual understanding and commitment built among dialogue participants serves as a foundation for broader outreach, advocacy, and community-building initiatives. Learn more about Karuna Center’s past & present programs that incorporate dialogue >

A sampling of resources from amazing work being done in many communities across the United States—made publicly available by various organizations noted below. This list draws partly from a list of resources curated by Hands Across the Hills.

Practical guides:

• Conversation Agreements, from Living Room Conversations
• Principles for Conversation Cafés, from Conversation Café
• From Convergence: Online Dialogue Guide, & Tips and Tools for Successful Dialogue
• Listen First Project’s Conversation Guide
• Essential Partners’ Guide for Conversations Across the Red-Blue Divide
• “How to Talk to Your Neighbor” Guide, from the One America Movement
• Race in America: A Dialogue Guide, from Essential Partners
• The Acceptance Project (TAP) Handbook, focusing on work among high school students
• Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, from the Public Conversations Project (now Essential Partners)

Important research to inform the work:

• Transforming the Color of US Peacebuilding: Types of Dialogue to Protect and Advance Multi-racial Democracy, by Lisa Schirch, Toda Peace Institute
• Beyond Conflict’s report, America’s Divided Mind: Understanding the Psychology that Drives us Apart