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Jennifer Linde facilitates a Civil Dialogue event at Burton Barr Library, Phoenix, Arizona.

Hot Topics

  • Land trust for education; Immigration Issues Concerning K-12 Education in Arizona
  • Issues Concerning Post-Secondary Education in Arizona
  • Issues Concerning Literacy and Pre-K Learning in Arizona​
  • Iran Nuclear Agreement; Hacktivism
  • Birthright citizenship; same-sex marriage
  • ​Healthcare; Issues Surrounding the Elderly
  • Global Freedom of Speech; the Media
  • Transforming the Domestic and International Community
  • Issues concerning the Homeless Population in Phoenix
  • Migration; the Trump effect
  • Outsider for president; candidates’ tax proposals

The Library Series

Total attendance, 2015 Civil Dialogue Library Series: approx. 215

The 2015 Civil Dialogue Library Series was supported by a grant from Arizona Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Clark Olson facilitates Civil Dialogue at the University of Cambridge, England
March 20        
​The Empty Space, Tempe: ASU graduate students from Com 692, Creating Civil Dialogue, facilitated dialogues on fracking, vaccinations, community policing, the cost of college education, and drug offenses and incarceration.

April 24
Civil Dialogue Workshop and Facilitator Training at the Conflict Transformation Summit, Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe

May 11    
Civility workshop and Civil Dialogue for the Men’s Discussion Group,Fountain Hills, Arizona (also presented to Women’s Group in 2014)

July 2        
Civil Dialogue with Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
November 2        
Civil Dialogue event in association with the I-4C (Intersections of Civil, Creative, and Critical Communication) Initiative, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, observed and critiqued by Dr. Martín Carcasson, associate professor, Communication Studies, Colorado State University, founder and director of the CSU Center for Public Deliberation (CPD)​

​December 2        
Civility lecture and Civil Dialogue, University of Cambridge, England – the first Civil Dialogue event outside of the USA

December 4        
Civility workshop and Civil Dialogue – a Highlighted Session of the “By The People” international democracy conference, ASU Clark Olson facilitates Civil Dialogue at the University of Cambridge, England

December 13 & 20    
Civil Dialogue at Dayspring Methodist Church in Tempe with the adult Sunday School class

Special Events

Total attendance, 2015 Special Events: approx. 235

Sponsored by The Institute for Civil Dialogue (ICD) and/or by Arizona State University (ASU) – the birthplace of Civil Dialogue (CD)

Special Notes

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Jim Chamness
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John Genette
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Jenna Wilson
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Pastor Sarah Stadler
• Jim Chamness and Laura Crawford joined the ICD Board of Directors.

• Three trainees satisfied the requirements for certification as a Civil Dialogue Facilitator: Rosalie Fisher, Katherine Roxlo, and Pastor Sarah Stadler. Three other trainees facilitated at least one of three observed rounds of CD required for certification: Carlos Flores, Sarah Jones, and Angela Willeford. Pastor Sarah presented eight Civil Dialogue events this year at Grace Lutheran Church in downtown Phoenix. The dialogues focused on issues related to homelessness, community and police relations, race, power, and value.
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• John Genette, a founding director and president of ICD, was named as the first Civil Communication Research Fellow at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU. He contributed to the Wikipedia entry on the word Civility in collaboration with the Freemasons of California and the National Civility Center.

Jenna Wilson, a Barrett Honors student at ASU, began research on her thesis; an investigation of civil communication and the use of Civil Dialogue in workplace conflict contexts.

• Four volunteers contributed numerous hours to ICD administration and programs:
  • Katherine Roxlo served as voluntary Chair of the Community Relations Committee. As a newly certified Civil Dialogue Facilitator, Katherine also served as a facilitator in the Library Series 
  • Deborah Carstens is volunteering as a grantwriter
  • Brenda Rubio-Sanchez and Alexander Roman volunteered on the Community Relations Committee and as hosts of Library Series events
•    ICD was invited to conduct Civil Dialogues in Maryland as part of a grant proposal to the Humanities in the Public Sphere program of the National Endowment submitted jointly by Towson University and Maryland Humanities.


Civil Dialogue in the classroom at ASU:

• Jennifer Linde completed civil communication training with public speaking instructors, who incorporate Civil Dialogue into the core public speaking course. 

• Carlos Flores and Sarah Jones facilitated rounds of Civil Dialogue in a Conflict and Negotiation class. 

• Linde and Clark Olson taught a graduate seminar, COM692, Creating Civil Dialogue.

• Linde taught a new course featuring Civil Dialogue (COM327, Civil Communication), for the first time in the spring semester, as part of the Certificate in Civil Communication now offered in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.

Total number of ASU students reached, 2015: approx. 700