Our Goal

The VOICE project, an initiative of The Dialogue Company, LLC, intends to empower people with skills and strategies that enable better interpersonal conversations about politics and elections. We believe that by utilizing effective dialogue methods, people can:

1. Help mobilize non-voters, and

2. Have healthy conversations across ideological divides.

Our work supports a reduction in political apathy and polarization while encouraging respect and compassion when discussing different opinions.

Our Learning Opportunities

We offer a library of information that provides opportunities for deeper learning and reflection.

Links to our live broadcast recordings are Below

Sessions 1-3: Mobilizing Non-voters

• September 14 - Engaging with Compassion

  • View the September 14 session (1 hour) here

• September 21 - Influence through Storytelling

  • View the September 21 session (30 min) here

• September 28 - Encouragement through Empowerment

  • View the September 28 session (30 min) here

Sessions 4-7: Dialogue Strategies Across Ideologies

• October 5 - Calming Down

  • View the October 5 session (36 min) here

• October 12 - Getting Curious

  • View the October 12 session (32 min) here

• October 19 - Influence through Concession

  • View the October 19 session (33 min) here

• October 26 - Cultivating Change

  • View the October 26 session (31 min) here

Our Self-Paced Courses

These complimentary courses addressing the two tracks of dialogue around political conversations - mobilizing voters and engaging across ideologies, are available in video format. The courses are intended to be used as a deeper dive into gaining dialogue skills for intentional conversations with people within their personal circle of connection such as family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and fellow congregants.

Thanks to the generous support of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Churches in Washington, DC and Portland, Oregan, The Dialogue Company can offer these courses free of charge. This partnership supports our commitment to create learning opportunities that allow people to improve themselves, their relationships, and their societies by deploying methods of dialogue grounded in empathy, compassion, and cooperation.

Mobilizing non-voters

We have two courses about mobilizing non-voters: one for general audiences and one that is specifically focused on people of color talking to each other. Click below to access these resources.

dialogue strategies across ideologies

We have two courses about fostering dialogue across the ideological divide. One is specifically about finding common ground and one is about being persuasive. Click below to access these resources.

Learn More About Allyship

The Dialogue Company, LLC offers a blended, interactive course and opportunity to join a cohort and larger community of anti-racism allies.

The course, which is pre-approved by the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) or 6 credits, will offer participants an introduction to our signature R.A.C.E. Method, while also providing:

• Transferable skills on dialogue-centered engagement,

• Tactical and constructive ways to have a conversation on race and racism, and

• Ways to reset relationships after conflict

  Our next cohort is forming now