Designed to be a transformative experience for graduate students and professionals, this program covers the practice and theory of leading groups through collaborative decision-making. Through a series of four courses, students will learn:

• approaches to participatory planning and collaborative decision-making that are supported by sound scholarship
• communication and leadership skills for designing and leading productive meetings
• dialogic practices for developing and maintaining constructive working relationships and managing conflict
• proven frameworks selecting or designing engagement processes for organizations, stakeholders, or whole communities
• a wide range of tools and techniques for engaging small and large groups to address conflicts, explore alternatives and inform policy
• principles and practices that move groups toward sustainable action that changes lives

Courses are presented in a hybrid format, with some offered online and others face-to-face. Students will interact regularly with each other and leaders in the field.