
Practitioner Guides
Dialogic Decision Making Course - Participant Field Guide
AofPD
How do you make decisions that people will actually follow through on? The Academy's Participant Field Guide for the Dialogic Decision Making Course puts that question at the centre of a structured learning journey.
The Dialogic Decision Making Course Field Guide is the participant-facing companion to one of the Academy's core training offerings, designed to support practitioners in developing the skills and awareness needed to facilitate decisions through dialogue rather than through positional authority or unilateral mandate. The guide grounds participants in the distinction between decisions that are merely announced and those that are genuinely owned, tracing how the quality of the dialogue surrounding a decision shapes whether commitment follows. Participants work through the conditions that enable shared understanding, the conversational moves that surface hidden assumptions, and the structural choices a facilitator must make when a group is navigating real stakes. The culminating challenge of the course returns to that opening question: what does it take to create the conditions in which people decide together, and how does a practitioner hold that process without controlling its outcome?
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