External Dialogue Resources
Programs and Networks
The following are bridging-related toolkits and resource guides from various nonprofit and educational organizations. They offer practical tools, frameworks, and learning materials that support respectful conversation, active listening, and constructive engagement in different contexts.
Courses & Toolkits
Books/ Media
Programs and Networks
Fellowships, Leadership & Experiential Learning
BRAID (Bridgebuilders Relating Across Interfaith Differences) Fellowship
Program Type: Fellowship
Description: BRAID is a recurring academic-year leadership fellowship for undergraduate students seeking to strengthen their interfaith and pluralism leadership. Fellows typically take part in retreats, virtual mentorship and training, and campus-based projects that build relationships and cooperation across religious, spiritual, and secular differences. Application dates, retreat locations, and cohort details may change each year. Refer to Interfaith America’s website to read more.
Link: https://www.interfaithamerica.org/grants/braid/
Best Contact: Interfaith America — nnakao@interfaithamerica.org
BridgeUSA Student Chapters
Program Type: Student Leadership Program
Description: Campus-based dialogue initiative that helps students engage across differences through conversations, trainings, and events. Refer to BridgeUSA’s website to read more.
Link: https://bridgeusa.org/
Best Contact: BridgeUSA — chapterteam@bridgeusa.org
CIEL Experiential Learning Programs
Program Type: Experiential Learning Program
Description: CIEL designs recurring immersive travel and experiential learning programs in conflict-affected and post-conflict regions, including the Balkans, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.-Mexico border. Programs combine pre-trip education, field visits, meetings with scholars, policymakers, activists, survivors, and community leaders, and guided reflection on reconciliation, governance, migration, historical memory, and conflict resolution. Destinations, timing, length, and participant format vary by program. Refer to CIEL’s website to read more.
Link: https://www.cielglobal.org/experiential-learning
Best Contact: CIEL — contact@cielglobal.org
Citizen University Civic Leadership Programs
Program Type: Leadership Program
Description: Programs and trainings that help students develop civic leadership skills and strengthen communities through collaboration and dialogue. Refer to Citizen University’s website to read more.
Link: https://citizenuniversity.us/programs/civic-collaboratory/
Best Contact: Citizen University — info@citizenuniversity.us
Interfaith America Learning & Action Bridge (LAB)
Program Type: Resource Hub/ Leadership Development
Description: Resource hub connecting students with trainings, courses, leadership programs, and bridge-building opportunities. Refer to Interfaith America’s website to read more.
Link: https://www.interfaithamerica.org/lab/
Best Contact: Interfaith America — info@interfaithamerica.org
Courses, Trainings & Dialogue Programs
Braver Angels eCourses
Program Type: Online Course
Description: Self-paced online courses that teach skills related to dialogue, depolarization, bridge-building, and civic engagement. Refer to Braver Angels’ website to read more.
Link: https://braverangels.org/what-we-do/take-an-ecourse/
Best Contact: Braver Angels — info@braverangels.org
Braver Angels Student Programs
Program Type: Workshop series
Description: Workshops, debates, and trainings designed to help students engage constructively across political differences. Refer to Braver Angels’ website to read more.
Link: https://braverangels.org/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=5512
Best Contact: Braver Angels / College Debates & Discourse — info@collegediscourse.org
Constructive Dialogue Institute Trainings & Workshops
Program Type: Workshop/ Training
Description: Workshops and trainings that help students build skills in communication, listening, and leading respectful discussions across differences. Refer to Constructive Dialogue Institute’s website to read more.
Link: https://constructivedialogue.org/
Best Contact: Constructive Dialogue Institute — info@constructivedialogue.org
Essential Partners Dialogue Workshops
Program Type: Workshop/ Facilitation Training
Description: Trainings that teach students how to facilitate respectful conversations and navigate difficult topics through dialogue. Refer to Essential Partners’ website to read more.
Link: https://whatisessential.org/workshops
Best Contact: Essential Partners — info@whatisessential.org
Living Room Conversations
Program Type: Dialogue Program/ Conversation Training
Description: Conversation guides, trainings, and learning opportunities that help students engage respectfully across differences. Refer to Living Room Conversations’ website to read more.
Link: https://livingroomconversations.org/
Best Contact: Living Room Conversations — contact@livingroomconversations.org
Conferences, Summits & Networks
Campus Climate Initiative (CCI) Speaker Series
Program Type: Webinar Series/ Learning Opportunity
Description: Self-paced online courses that teach skills related to dialogue, depolarization, bridge-building, and civic engagement. Refer to Braver Angels’ website to read more.
Link: https://www.hillel.org/campus-climate-initiative/
Best Contact: Hillel International — cci@hillel.org
Facing Race Conference
Program Type: Conference
Description: Facing Race is Race Forward’s biennial (every two years) national conference for racial justice organizers, activists, artists, educators, and movement leaders. The gathering offers workshops, plenaries, cultural programming, resources, and collaboration opportunities designed to strengthen racial-equity strategies across movements and communities. The host city changes with each conference. Refer to Facing Race’s website to read more.
Link: https://facingrace.raceforward.org/
Best Contact: Race Forward / Facing Race — facingrace@raceforward.org
Interface Leadership Summit
Program Type: Leadership Summit/ Conference
Description: Recurring national gathering where students and educators build interfaith leadership and bridge-building skills through training tracks, workshops, discussions, and relationship-building across religious and worldview differences. Refer to Interfaith America’s website to read more.
Link: https://www.interfaithamerica.org/events/interfaith-leadership-summit/
Best Contact: Interfaith America — summit@interfaithamerica.org
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
Program Type: Conferences/ Trainings/ Networking
Description: Conferences, trainings, and networking opportunities focused on dialogue, facilitation, collaboration, and community engagement. Refer to NCDD’s website to read more.
Link: https://www.ncdd.org/events.html
Best Contact: National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation — keiva@ncdd.org
Othering & Belonging Institute Conferences & Learning Programs
Program Type: Conference/ Learning Opportunity
Description: The Othering & Belonging Institute hosts periodic conferences and related learning opportunities that bring together researchers, organizers, artists, educators, policymakers, and other practitioners. Programming focuses on belonging, democracy, bridging across difference, inclusive institutions, and strategies for social change through workshops, cultural experiences, and relationship-building. Timing, location, and format vary by convening. Refer to the Othering & Belonging Institute’s website to read more.
Link: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/conference
Best Contact: Othering & Belonging Institute — obconf@berkeley.edu
Dialogue Across Difference Initiative
1500 Public Affairs Building
337 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095