Dialogue Forums

The Sustainability Leadership Institute facilitates customized Dialogue Forums that key into dynamics that are rich with possibilities. These Dialogues include small group exploration, conversations about critical challenges or large group change initiatives, community meetings, Appreciate Inquiry summits© or Intergenerational dialogues©.

Selected Examples

United Nations World Environment Day Citizens' Roundtable
June 2009; June 2010
The Durham Western Heritage Museum
Omaha, NE

This event, hosted two years consecutively by the Green Omaha Coalition, provided a lively forum in which political leaders, business and non-profit leaders and community activists come together to share and learn about sustainability actions and successes in the Omaha community. The roundtable dialogues foster a productive exchange among citizens with diverse points of view about how to continue the pathway to a greener Omaha community.

Wisdom Community Gathering
Conversation Convener: Mary Ferdig, PhD
February 2009
Omaha, NE

Business leaders from Omaha, Phoenix and Denver convened in Omaha to stimulate thinking and explore conversation about planetary concerns and the global regional, and local impact. They considered questions such as: What is the current reality? What is being done that suggests movement in the shift to less destructive patterns of human behavior? How can I make a difference?