We’re starting from a shared premise: contact alone is not enough. If dialogue is meant to encourage participants to critically examine reality and imagine change, it must be intentionally designed and carefully facilitated. But that raises a central dilemma:
Is dialogue most effective when it happens together or separately?
Both having begun their own journeys as participants in dialogue groups and working their way up to leadership positions, our speakers bring deep, lived experience from the field:
Lana Ikelan, Co-Director of Seeds of Peace Jerusalem (formerly Kids4Peace), engages young people across deep asymmetries of power and narrative.
Dina Gardashkin, former Co-Director of Sadaka-Reut, confronts inequality, education, and political responsibility.
Together with Lana and Dina, we’ll explore questions such as:
• How does the group setting impact the process participants undergo?
• What kinds of transformation are possible only in mixed groups or only in separate groups?
• What are the risks and limitations of each framework?
This conversation is for educators, facilitators, activists, donors, and anyone grappling seriously with what dialogue can — and cannot — do in our current reality.
