Resolution Newsletter Fall 2020
Make Listening Your Superpower We can agree right now that we need a healthy dose of healing. With 2020 being a year beyond our wildest imagination, most of us feel overwhelmed and unsure how to support those around us. How can we move beyond the divisiveness? How can we come together to begin healing? What…
Read MoreResolution Newsletter Spring 2020
Every day we’re rippling “The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the ripple effect as a spreading, pervasive, and usually unintentional effect or influence. While we recognize the ripple effect can be inadvertent, we also know each of us can create ripples through our intentionality. … Have you considered your intentionality as it relates to the ripples you…
Read MoreResolution Newsletter Winter 2019
Thanks to Congressman Denny Heck for praising CDR’s work, noting, “Too often, we’re talking at each other, talking past each other and not hearing what is actually said…so if we can avoid a shouting match or stepping into a courtroom, shouldn’t we try to do that?” … Resolution Newsletter Winter 2019
Read MoreResolution Newsletter Summer 2019
Our goal at Center For Dialog & Resolution (CDR) is to support skill development to increase the capacity for a paradigm shift around how we help people experiencing homelessness. Check out our latest newsletter to find out more! CDR Newsletter Summer 2019
Read More4 Steps to Productive & Joyful Meetings
Meetings (work-related or otherwise) can be such a drag. They usually take too long and often go off on tangents. You may feel like your voice is never heard (or you find yourself biting your tongue), and, once the meeting is finally over, you find yourself wondering, what was the point of that, anyway? But…
Read MoreRestoring Relationships
Want to know what the Center’s been up to this year? Lots of restoration! We believe that restoring relationships is what makes a community – and creating positive, respectful, and productive dialog in the community is what we’re all about! Check out our latest newsletter to find out about Restorative Practices, restoring relationships, tips, tricks,…
Read MoreCDR Board Members… Making Ripples!
The Center for Dialog & Resolution is making ripples… with help from their board members! In partnership with the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, CDR board member Wes Bailey shares his story of how he used the Listen, Learn, Talk, and Act method to make ripples in the community.
Read MoreRippling Out!
The Center for Dialog & Resolution is making ripples throughout the community… and so can you! Check out our new and improved newsletter, read all about our move to an incredible new location, and get all the latest updates on our upcoming event celebrating Conflict Resolution Day, “The Ripple Effect: Center for Dialog & Resolution’s…
Read MoreBringing the Community… to CDR!
This summer, the Center for Dialog & Resolution is bringing in the community! CDR is partnering with the University of Puget Sound in an all-new program and inviting two interns, Emma Ferguson and Will Henderson, to work with the staff of the Center. Emma, a native of Chicago, is majoring in Politics and Government, with…
Read MoreCDR News – July
The Center for Dialog & Resolution continues to change and adapt. This summer we said goodbye and congratulations to another of our beloved staff members,Whitney Stafford. Thank you, Whitney, for your dedication, insight, and care of the Center and the people who walk through its doors. Originally from Texas, Whitney Stafford, Business and Operations Manager,…
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