2008 Civil Discourse-Related
Events in Arizona
Highlighted Events
5/14/2008 - Project Civil Discourse Kick-Off Event!
Mike McCurry, President Bill Clinton's former press secretary addresses "Improving Political Discourse in the Media."
5/16/2008 - PCD Third Fridays Speaker/Discussion Series
"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors." Discussion and facilitated conversation led by writer and photographer Dick George.
5/22/2008 - "Exploiting Racial Fears in American Politics"
Dr. Matthew Whitaker will examine the history of race and racism in American politics, and examine how Barack Obama's presidential candidacy has impacted this historic mindset.
6/20/2008 - PCD Third Fridays Speaker/Discussion Series
"Religion, Politics, and American Public Life." Discussion and facilitated conversation led by Richard Wentz, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University Religious Studies Department.
5/14/2008
Project Civil Discourse Major Kick-Off Event—IMPROVING POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THE MEDIA
Featuring Mike McCurry, the highly respected former press secretary to President Bill Clinton. He is a principal at Public Strategies Washington, Inc., where he provides counsel on communications strategies and management to corporate and non-profit clients. He served as spokesman for the Department of State (1993-1995) and was press secretary to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1981-1983). (McCurry also has a connection to Arizona where he worked for Governor Bruce Babbitt.) He is a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates and also serves as a Senior Advisor to Grassroots Enterprise, Inc., a firm specializing in using internet technology to build strong grassroots activist campaigns.
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: University of Arizona, Phoenix
Location Details: University of Arizona, Piper Auditorium, 7th Street and Van Buren, Phoenix
Time: reception, 5:30 PM; presentation, 6:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public - RSVP to 602-257-0335
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd_event_mccurry.html
Featuring Mike McCurry, the highly respected former press secretary to President Bill Clinton. He is a principal at Public Strategies Washington, Inc., where he provides counsel on communications strategies and management to corporate and non-profit clients. He served as spokesman for the Department of State (1993-1995) and was press secretary to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1981-1983). (McCurry also has a connection to Arizona where he worked for Governor Bruce Babbitt.) He is a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates and also serves as a Senior Advisor to Grassroots Enterprise, Inc., a firm specializing in using internet technology to build strong grassroots activist campaigns.
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: University of Arizona, Phoenix
Location Details: University of Arizona, Piper Auditorium, 7th Street and Van Buren, Phoenix
Time: reception, 5:30 PM; presentation, 6:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public - RSVP to 602-257-0335
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd_event_mccurry.html
5/16/08
AZ One, Central Arizona
AZ One starts with a one-day regional visioning exercise that will bring together diverse regional leaders and community members to inform and raise awareness of growth issues.
Sponsor: Valley Forward
Location: Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix
Location Details: Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N. Third Street, Phoenix
Time: Luncheon
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-277-0911
Email: info@azonefuture.com
Website: http://azonefuture.com/
AZ One starts with a one-day regional visioning exercise that will bring together diverse regional leaders and community members to inform and raise awareness of growth issues.
Sponsor: Valley Forward
Location: Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix
Location Details: Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N. Third Street, Phoenix
Time: Luncheon
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-277-0911
Email: info@azonefuture.com
Website: http://azonefuture.com/
5/16/2008
Project Civil Discourse Discussion Series: "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Walls, Boundaries, Lines in the Sand, and a Yankee Poet"
Discussion and facilitated conversation led by Writer and Photographer Dick George of Tempe
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Arizona Humanites Council, Phoenix
Location Details: Arizona Humanites Council, Ellis-Shackelford House, 1242 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 5:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd-speaker_series.html
Discussion and facilitated conversation led by Writer and Photographer Dick George of Tempe
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Arizona Humanites Council, Phoenix
Location Details: Arizona Humanites Council, Ellis-Shackelford House, 1242 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 5:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd-speaker_series.html
5/19/2008
Dialogue with Public Conversations Project
Discuss conversation and dialogue methods developed by both PECE and PCP and explore ways we could develop collaborating projects. Potential topics for a collaborative project might include educational equity; race and identity; and border and bi-national community issues.
Sponsor: University of Arizona’s Partnership for Equity and Civic Engagement
Location: University of Arizona, Tucson
Location Details: University of Arizona, College of Education, Room 312, Tucson
Time: 6:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 520-331-5582
Email: acfonte@aol.com
Website: www.publicconversations.org
Discuss conversation and dialogue methods developed by both PECE and PCP and explore ways we could develop collaborating projects. Potential topics for a collaborative project might include educational equity; race and identity; and border and bi-national community issues.
Sponsor: University of Arizona’s Partnership for Equity and Civic Engagement
Location: University of Arizona, Tucson
Location Details: University of Arizona, College of Education, Room 312, Tucson
Time: 6:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 520-331-5582
Email: acfonte@aol.com
Website: www.publicconversations.org
5/19/2008-5/23/2008
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution Conference
Training events, panel workshops and associated meetings will take place.
Sponsor: US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
Location: Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, Tucson
Location Details: Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson
Time: All Day
Cost: $425
Category: By Registration
Phone: 520-901-8501
Email: ECR2008@ecr.gov
Website: http://ecr.gov/ecr.asp?link=607
Training events, panel workshops and associated meetings will take place.
Sponsor: US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
Location: Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, Tucson
Location Details: Doubletree Tucson Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson
Time: All Day
Cost: $425
Category: By Registration
Phone: 520-901-8501
Email: ECR2008@ecr.gov
Website: http://ecr.gov/ecr.asp?link=607
5/21/2008-5/23/2008, 8/27/2008-8/29/2008, 11/19/2008-11/21/2008, 2/27/2009-2/29/2009
Mastering the Technology of Participation
This course was created for those wishing to become highly skilled ToP® facilitators. It provides a theoretical foundation for the methods as well as opportunities for practice and feedback. A learning community is created that supports and deepens the participant's journey. Included are mentoring opportunities for participants in their own practice and with other participants.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $4,000
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
This course was created for those wishing to become highly skilled ToP® facilitators. It provides a theoretical foundation for the methods as well as opportunities for practice and feedback. A learning community is created that supports and deepens the participant's journey. Included are mentoring opportunities for participants in their own practice and with other participants.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $4,000
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
5/22/2008
Project Civil Discourse Special Event—"Exploiting Racial Fears in American Politics"
Dr. Matthew Whitaker will examine the history of America's unwillingness and/or inability to sufficiently engage the history and life of race and racism. He will demonstrate that the tendency to exploit racial fears (otherwise known as the "Southern strategy") has been a fundamental organizing principle of American politics, and examine how Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy has impacted this historic mindset.
Sponsor: League of Women Voters, Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Burton Barr Library, Phoenix
Location Details: Burton Barr Library, 1221 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd_event_whitaker.html
Dr. Matthew Whitaker will examine the history of America's unwillingness and/or inability to sufficiently engage the history and life of race and racism. He will demonstrate that the tendency to exploit racial fears (otherwise known as the "Southern strategy") has been a fundamental organizing principle of American politics, and examine how Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy has impacted this historic mindset.
Sponsor: League of Women Voters, Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Burton Barr Library, Phoenix
Location Details: Burton Barr Library, 1221 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd_event_whitaker.html
6/3/2008-6/4/2008
ToP Secrets of Implementation
Participants help groups succeed in their planning efforts by foreseeing difficulties using proven methods and tools. They will apply their new insights to specific implementation challenges they may be facing.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
Participants help groups succeed in their planning efforts by foreseeing difficulties using proven methods and tools. They will apply their new insights to specific implementation challenges they may be facing.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
6/15/2008-6/19/2008
Anytown Jr.
This program is based on the Anytown curriculum but tailored for students in grades 7-8. The activities center around improving self-awareness, peer relationships, communication, and conflict resolution, giving youth the guidance they need to resolve issues encountered in their schools and communities. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $365, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
This program is based on the Anytown curriculum but tailored for students in grades 7-8. The activities center around improving self-awareness, peer relationships, communication, and conflict resolution, giving youth the guidance they need to resolve issues encountered in their schools and communities. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $365, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
6/20/2008
Project Civil Discourse Discussion Series: "Religion, Politics, and American Public Life"
Discussion and facilitated conversation led by Richard Wentz, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University Religious Studies Department
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Arizona Humanites Council, Phoenix
Location Details: Arizona Humanites Council, Ellis-Shackelford House, 1242 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 5:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd-speaker_series.html
Discussion and facilitated conversation led by Richard Wentz, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University Religious Studies Department
Sponsor: Arizona Humanities Council
Location: Arizona Humanites Council, Phoenix
Location Details: Arizona Humanites Council, Ellis-Shackelford House, 1242 North Central Avenue, Phoenix
Time: 5:30 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-0335
Email: info@azhumanities.org
Website: www.azhumanities.org/pcd1/pcd-speaker_series.html
6/21/2008-6/28/2008
Anytown
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
7/13/2008-7/17/2008
Anytown Jr.
This program is based on the Anytown curriculum but tailored for students in grades 7-8. The activities center around improving self-awareness, peer relationships, communication, and conflict resolution, giving youth the guidance they need to resolve issues encountered in their schools and communities. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $365, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
This program is based on the Anytown curriculum but tailored for students in grades 7-8. The activities center around improving self-awareness, peer relationships, communication, and conflict resolution, giving youth the guidance they need to resolve issues encountered in their schools and communities. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $365, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
7/19/2008-7/26/2008
Anytown
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
7/31/2008-8/2/2008
Summer Leadership Institute
For potential school board members. Tackles some of the most difficult issues in education in-depth, building board members' capacity to respond to serious national and state issues when they affect their local schools.
Sponsor: Arizona School Boards Association
Location: Flagstaff
Location Details: Little America Resort, Flagstaff
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-254-1100
Email: kbeckvar@azsba.org
Website: www.azsba.org
For potential school board members. Tackles some of the most difficult issues in education in-depth, building board members' capacity to respond to serious national and state issues when they affect their local schools.
Sponsor: Arizona School Boards Association
Location: Flagstaff
Location Details: Little America Resort, Flagstaff
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-254-1100
Email: kbeckvar@azsba.org
Website: www.azsba.org
8/1/2008-12/15/2008
Youth and Government & Model Legislature
Arizona YMCA Youth & Government is a statewide youth civic education and leadership development program in which YMCAs, schools, and community organizations involve high school students in a five-month hands-on experience. Since its inception in 1948, the Arizona program has used a variety of activities to build, encourage and strengthen those life assets and character traits that will help high school youth become involved and responsible citizens. The tool used is a high-quality experiential and educational simulation based on Arizona’s state government. The program is comprehensive, and its impact on the youth participants is dramatic. The purpose of this highly regarded program is exemplified in the program’s motto: “Democracy must be learned by each generation.”
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations and State Capitol
Location Details: Various locations and State Capitol
Time: All Day
Cost: $350 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: www.azymcayag.org
Arizona YMCA Youth & Government is a statewide youth civic education and leadership development program in which YMCAs, schools, and community organizations involve high school students in a five-month hands-on experience. Since its inception in 1948, the Arizona program has used a variety of activities to build, encourage and strengthen those life assets and character traits that will help high school youth become involved and responsible citizens. The tool used is a high-quality experiential and educational simulation based on Arizona’s state government. The program is comprehensive, and its impact on the youth participants is dramatic. The purpose of this highly regarded program is exemplified in the program’s motto: “Democracy must be learned by each generation.”
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations and State Capitol
Location Details: Various locations and State Capitol
Time: All Day
Cost: $350 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: www.azymcayag.org
9/9/2008-9/10/2008
Group Facilitation Methods
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
9/15/2008-3/15/2009
Model United Nations
Students in grades 6-9 learn about another country, YMCA values, and the global community. Teens learn about the basic structure and function of the UN. They work in teams to research a foreign country, write proposals, and create a display about their country. Clubs meet weekly at various locations. Many leadership opportunities are available. The program concludes with a two-day Model UN Assembly where countries propose and debate solutions to international issues. This program involves an overnight stay in a local Phoenix hotel.
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations
Location Details: Various locations
Time: All Day
Cost: $215 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: http://www.valleyymca.org/teens/teens.asp
Students in grades 6-9 learn about another country, YMCA values, and the global community. Teens learn about the basic structure and function of the UN. They work in teams to research a foreign country, write proposals, and create a display about their country. Clubs meet weekly at various locations. Many leadership opportunities are available. The program concludes with a two-day Model UN Assembly where countries propose and debate solutions to international issues. This program involves an overnight stay in a local Phoenix hotel.
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations
Location Details: Various locations
Time: All Day
Cost: $215 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: http://www.valleyymca.org/teens/teens.asp
10/14/2008-10/15/2008
Group Facilitation Methods
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
10/22/2008-10/23/2008
Group Facilitation Methods (in Spanish)
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning. In Spanish.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning. In Spanish.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
11/2/2008-11/5/2008
Arizona Town Hall
93rd Arizona Town Hall will concentrate discussion on finding solutions for filling the need for workforce/affordable housing.
Sponsor: Arizona Town Hall
Location: Grand Canyon
Location Details: Grand Canyon
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-252-9600
Email:
Website: http://www.aztownhall.org/
93rd Arizona Town Hall will concentrate discussion on finding solutions for filling the need for workforce/affordable housing.
Sponsor: Arizona Town Hall
Location: Grand Canyon
Location Details: Grand Canyon
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-252-9600
Email:
Website: http://www.aztownhall.org/
11/11/2008-11/12/2008
Participatory Strategic Planning
Participants learn a systematic and comprehensive participatory strategic planning method for organizational change and transformation. (Prerequisite: GFM)
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
Participants learn a systematic and comprehensive participatory strategic planning method for organizational change and transformation. (Prerequisite: GFM)
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
