practice · all tools
Constructive Conversations
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedrequired
Practicing genuine dialogue with people who hold genuinely different views on complex problems: listening for the reasoning underneath, advocating one's own perspective without flattening the other's, and noticing the moves that turn conversation into contest. Multiple sessions, real disagreements.
Hold with care
- Practice on issues with real charge, but let participants choose how hot — assigned controversy breeds performance, not skill
Practical
- Time
- 90-150 min
- Group
- 3–24 · pairs, small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Flip-over sheet or whiteboard
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, perspective-taking
- Change scope
- skill · recurring-practice
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/constructive-conversations — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Madelinde Winnubst, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Dialogue and deliberation practice
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
Related: NVC Dialogue Practice (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25