Designed to be a transformative experience for graduate students and professionals, this program covers the practice and theory of leading groups through collaborative decision-making. Through a series of four courses, students will learn: approaches to participatory planning and collaborative decision-making that are supported by sound scholarship, communication and leadership skills for designing and leading productive meetings, dialogic practices for developing and maintaining constructive working relationships and managing conflict, proven frameworks selecting or designing engagement processes for organizations, stakeholders, or whole communities, a wide range of tools and techniques for engaging small and large groups to address conflicts, explore alternatives and inform policy, principles and practices that move groups toward sustainable action that changes lives.