Do you belong to a diverse group of stakeholders where you cannot agree on how to move forward?
Are you part of a team dealing with a complicated issue and frustrated that you cannot reach agreement? Are you a member of a community where different interests clash and prevent you finding away forward?
An Introduction to the Structured Democratic Dialogue in an inspirational presentation that will introduce you to a methodology on how to build consensus.
It will be held on Thursday 23 March 2023 at 19:00 at Home for Cooperation, Nicosia. No pre-registrarion required.
From local government, to designing policy for social and economic development, to peace-building in conflict zones, this Structured Dialogue Process has been successfully used for over 50 years all over the world to help people overcome obstacles and find ways to move forward.
The methodology will be presented by one of the original creators of the process, Dr Alexander N. Christakis. Dr Christakis is a social scientist, systems scientist and cyberneticist, and co-founder of the Club of Rome who has served on faculties of several top US universities, including Yale, Georgetown, Virginia, and George Mason. He graduated from Princeton in theoretical physics and from Yale in theoretical nuclear physics. He is also President of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of civic, global and institutional capacity for coordinated democratic decision- making using systems principles.
The presentation will be under the auspices of #UniteCyprusNow and will be conducted in English.
