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From Wicked People To Wicked Problems: Building Local Capacity For Deliberative Engagement In The Era Of Hyper-Partisanship, Martín Carcasson
From Wicked People To Wicked Problems: Building Local Capacity For Deliberative Engagement In The Era Of Hyper-Partisanship, Martín Carcasson
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Opening comments from Dr. David Procter, Director of the Center for Engagement and Community Development (CECD) and Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) highlighted the public need for dialogue, the diversity of presentations in the symposium, and the contributions of ICDD to promoting civic discourse at Kansas State University. Provost April Mason underscored the need to address polarization and the constructive contributions of K-State. Dr. Carcasson, Director of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University, presented a framework for addressing polarization through Deliberative Engagement. This framework invokes the “wicked problems” presumption, requires dealing with uncertainty, a focus …
Workshop: Depolarization Using The Intercultural Development Continuum, Aliah Mestrovich Seay
Workshop: Depolarization Using The Intercultural Development Continuum, Aliah Mestrovich Seay
Center for Engagement and Community Development
This workshop features an introduction to core concepts of intercultural learning, the Intercultural Development Curriculum and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Participants develop a basic understanding of the IDI and demonstrate their own cultural self-awareness, “other” awareness, and intercultural communication skills through exercises using narrative styles of “turn-taking,” “pausing,” and “overlapping.”