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Dialogue + Design Associates is a multi-disciplinary, public-interest design firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia, focusing on helping citizens, localities, and organizations build a stronger future through collaboration, architecture, environmental design and community planning.
Collective: How to Build Community and Consensus
An eight-week online course offering a step-by-step guide to build thriving networks through lasting partnerships, strong collaboration, and rocking facilitation.
Create the Future You Want to See With Community and Collaboration
Whether in business or local communities, collaboration and consensus create stronger, smarter, and more resilient teams that achieve lasting success.
You’ll learn how to:
- Form a collaborative and work effectively with groups.
- Develop strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.
- Create a vision with a group and find ways to make it a reality.
- Identify diverse funding opportunities, different models of collaboration, and how to create lasting change.
- Ideas to build community to create the future you want to see.
THE COLLECTIVE IS MORE EFFECTIVE.
Collaboration
We work with individuals, organizations, and government agencies to develop consensus, collaborative problem-solving, and community-building through our facilitation, strategic planning, and collaboration services.
Architecture
With a focus on environmental design, we offer multi-disciplinary architecture services to private, commercial, and institutional clients built on building science, sound construction, and beauty.
Ecological Design
We work with clients to develop permaculture plans for urban, rural, or community sites, leading to increased self-reliance, resilience, beauty and regeneration of the land and its inhabitants.