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Registration is Now Open for our July and September 2025 Coach Trainings
Become a Collaborative Discussion Coach and join our growing community of 150+ coaches! Register now for our July or September 2025 Coach Training!
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Ritu Thomas
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Shannon Wheatley Hartman
Apply Now: Interactivity Foundation Director/VP of Programming
Interested in joining the IF Team as our Director or VP of Programming? Apply Now! For full consideration, please apply by January 3rd, 2025.
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Shannon Wheatley Hartman
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Ritu Thomas
4 Curiosity Prompts + Free Resource
Use these prompts to help develop the skill of curiosity
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Ritu Thomas
Become a Collaborative Discussion Coach
Register Now for Summer Coach Training 2024! Deadline is Sunday, May 5th
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Shannon Wheatley Hartman
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Nurturing Intentional Empathy
Exploring emotions and their sources
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Ritu Thomas
Don’t Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Join our growing community of 150+ coaches! Register now for our July or September 2025 Coach Training!
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Laura May, PhD
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Ritu Thomas
Submit an Activity to the CDP Toolkit
Do you have a favorite activity that helps people think, discuss, or work better together? Share it with us! Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2025.
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Ritu Thomas
Become a Collaborative Discussion Coach
Join our growing community of 150+ coaches! Register Now for the Summer 2025 Coach Training! Deadline is Sunday, May 4th.
 • 
Ritu Thomas
 and 
Shannon Wheatley Hartman
Free Workshops to Improve Classroom & Campus Discussions This Fall
Are you faculty or staff looking to improve discussions in your classroom or on campus this fall? Do you know college students eager to transform their…
We Are Hiring Two New Positions!
Interested in joining the Interactivity Foundation Team as our new Director of Communications or our Senior Operations Manager? Apply by July 14th…
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Shannon Wheatley Hartman
Register Now for an Introductory Workshop or Webinar
Learn how to set the stage for productive collaboration in our Foundations to Collaborative Discussion workshop and get an overview of the CDP toolkit…
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Ritu Thomas
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Eric Schmucker
Fostering Dialogue and Civil Discourse at the University of Texas using the CDP Toolkit
CDP Coach, Sara DeTurk, shares her experience offering a certificate program using activities from the CDP Toolkit and the transformative results for…
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Laura May, PhD
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Ritu Thomas
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