Activities

Part One

Please respond to the following questions by submitting a 1–3 page Word document:

• After reviewing the lecture notes and readings, what aspects of this course might be most challenging for you? What stands out to you? What aspects are you most excited to explore more deeply?
• What important insights about strategic dialogue and engagement do you bring, from your own experience?
• What burning questions do you have about this work/this course?

Part Two

Complete the Interaction Institute for Social Change Privilege Profile and respond to the following questions:

• What surprised you? What felt challenging? What was familiar?
• What implications might this activity have for your work as an engagement and dialogue practitioner?

Please respond to the following questions by submitting a 1–3 page Word document:

• What are your learning priorities for this course? What difference do you hope this course will make for you in your work?
• The skills building assignments ask you to reflect on how these key learning objectives from each module can be put into practice. To support this application, it will be helpful to identify one or two case studies that you want to work with. These could be from your own work or from examples provided. Please briefly describe the case study/ies that you plan to work with in this course.

Note: There will be a final capstone project, in which you have the opportunity to put the learning from this course that is most relevant to you in to practice. This could be an engagement or communications strategy, a project plan, a professional development plan or something else. As you go through the skills building assignments over the coming weeks, consider how these might contribute to your capstone.