With the Third Side Forum functional it's time to reach out and expand and connect this forum to other third siders and networks. We’d love your thoughts and ideas of websites, blogs, networks and communities that are natural connections.
Our hope is to provide a space and bridge for communities, practitioners and students to meet and weave a web of inquiry, knowledge and experience developing a community of support for the development and mobilization of Third Side perspective and expanding our ability to face and transform conflict together.
What recommendations do you have for our development of this network and forum?
I recently met with a professor at the University of Washington's School of Social Work, Ratnesh Nagda. Ratnesh does a lot of work in the field of dialogue and I wanted to learn more about what he is doing. During our conversation he told me about the organization, "Study Circles" and directed me to their website, which I'm including here: http://www.studycircles.org/en/Page.WhoWeAre.aspx
From talking with Ratnesh and reading through some of their material, it seems their work can be summed up by saying they bring citizens, businesses, and local government together to address issues and solve problems. Is anyone else familiar with this organization?
Posted by: Kurt O'Brien | February 26, 2006 at 08:42 PM
Kurt
As I was doing reach for the Feb 28th mailing for the forum I too bumped into Study Circles - I've included their resources page on the mailing if you haven't seen their discussion guides - great stuff. http://www.studycircles.org/en/Page.ResourceRoom.aspx
Posted by: Katia | March 02, 2006 at 11:08 AM
Katia, I did see their resource material, and it is quite extensive. Turns out a study circle was held in a school district in Washington that is not too far from where I live. I would like to contact someone at the school to learn more about their experience with the process -- I'll keep the forum posted!
Posted by: Kurt | March 05, 2006 at 06:56 PM