4 Steps to Running your Dialogue
- Promote and publicize – publicity, media and social networking tools
- Prepare to facilitate your dialogue – icebreakers, orientation and exercises
- Facilitate the dialogue – print out our customized discussion guides per your film
- Evaluate your dialogue – print out the pre and post evaluation forms for participants
1. Promote and Publicize
Press and Media Templates
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Prince Among Slaves
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Talking Through Walls
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On a Wing and a Prayer
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Publicity Fliers and Press Release Templates
Social Networking Publicity for your Community Dialogue
- Link your event to our Facebook group for 20,000 Dialogues. Once you sign up to join the group, contact Daniel@upf.tv to be made an admin and you will then be able to create your own dialogue event and invite members from the group to attend.
- Go to our Meetup group and make an event associated with the group and invite other fans.
- Contact a local chapter of one of these organizations and ask for their help
- Do an internet search for “interfaith” and “name of your city” or “mosque,” “Masjid,” or “Islamic Center” and “name of your city” to find Muslim contacts in your community. Make sure you ask to speak to someone involved in interfaith efforts.
Invitation Tools
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2. Prepare to Facilitate
Facilitator Orientation
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Power Point Orientation on organizing and facilitating your Community Dialogue
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Pre-Screening Materials
- Icebreakers (PDF or Word). Handouts for helping dialogue participants meet each other and feel comfortable.
- Ground Rules (PDF) (from the Public Conversations Project) guide to helping your group develop ground rules before your dialogue.
- An exercise on stereotyping (PDF) Handout (from the Public Conversations Project) to assist your group in identifying stereotypes.
- Prayer For Peace (PDF or Word) by Abdul Aziz Said of American University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division
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3. Facilitate
Dialogue Packets and Dialogue Guides
These resources can be used for both living room and community dialogues. Dialogue packets have evaluations and pre dialogue exercises included, and discussion guides do not.
- On a Wing and a Prayer Discussion Guide (Word)
- Talking Through Walls Discussion Guide (Word)
- Allah Made Me Funny Discussion Guide (PDF)
- Prince Among Slaves Dialogue Packet (PDF)
- Muhammad, Legacy of a Prophet Dialogue Packet (PDF)
- Cities of Light Dialogue Packet (PDF)
- Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain Discussion Guide in collaboration with the Interfaith Youth Core (PDF or Word)
- Allah Made Me Funny Dialogue Packet co-created by 20,000 Dialogues and the Interfaith Youth Core (Word)
Many Religions, One Community: Lessons from Islamic Spain for Today’s World. A project using Cities of Light – a collaboration of 20,000 Dialogues and Public Agenda (
http://www.20000dialogues.org/mroc)
Dialogue Materials
- Facilitator's Guide (pdf)
- Participant's Guide (pdf)
Publicity and Promotional Material
- Template Publicity and Promotional Flier (pdf)
Evaluations
- Pre-Viewing Questionnaire (pdf)
- Post-Dialogue Questionnaire (pdf)
Application for financial support and technical assistance (
pdf)
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4. Evaluate the Dialogue
Below, click on the PDF to download the participant and organizer evaluation forms for your dialogue event. Evaluation is critical toward our goal of constant improvement. Therefore, when you and your participants send in the completed forms, you become eligible in a drawing for Amazon gift cards. 20 gift cards of $25 each will be given away after random selection. A completed evaluation form with your email address is required to enter.
When complete, please mail all forms to: UPF, P.O. Box 650458, Potomac Falls, VA 20165-0458 or scan and send to:
outreach@upf.tv
as a PDF document.
- 20KD Film and Dialogue Evaluation Form
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