Join us for a facilitate workshop to learn more about engagement, facilitation and promotion of conversation with Joseph Camilleri.
Conversation at the Crossroads convener, Joseph Camilleri, will put before you the rich tapestry of CONVERSATION. We usually associate conversation with the spoken word. In conversation we speak and hear others speak, face to face in the home, the office, the retail store, a coffee shop, the pub, the classroom, a workshop or a conference, or remotely via radio, television, podcast or digital media.
But conversation also involves the written word, the exchange of messages via social media, email, letter or card. More subtle still is what brings together author and reader of a news story, opinion piece, article, or book. Nor can we forget the rich conversations between artist and patron – in the cinema, theatre, concert hall, museum or gallery.
The forms of conversation are many, but so are the roles we play in conversation. We can:
Engage in conversation – exchange messages in any of the forms listedabove
Facilitate conversation – chair or facilitate a meeting, or moderate aforum or other public gathering
Promote conversation – point out the value of conversation, especially in troubled times; encourage others to take part in conversation; invitethem to Conversation at the Crossroads events and projects.
It’s so easy to say, but not so easy to do. To do any of this, let alone to do it well, requires the right frame of mind, a capacity for empathy, and a great many skills.
This is what we’re going to be working at in this initial workshop. We’ll do it in aconvivial atmosphere, with drinks and finger food, brief presentations from melaying out the challenges and joys of conversation, time for QA, short videoclips, and especially time with several people primed to share with us theirstories and experiences.
This will be a time to recharge the batteries, open up exciting possibilities, andidentify new ways of connecting with people we know as well as those we don’tknow.
We look forward to welcoming you and your friends on Sunday 7 April. It shouldbe an enjoyable, moving, action-packed afternoon.