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Welcome to the Intergroup Dialogue (InDi) Training Hub
The Intergroup Dialogue (InDi) Training Hub aims to build capacity among students, faculty, and professionals to lead meaningful conversations on community, power, and empathy. As a collaboration among the College of Education, Undergraduate Studies, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, we serve as the central hub for dialogue facilitation training, curricular support, and ongoing development. Through workshops, consultations, coaching, and research, we equip our community and partners with the tools to navigate complex viewpoints and challenging discussions with confidence and care. By fostering open and constructive dialogue, we help the University of �˻�ֱ�� create an environment where people engage, learn, and grow together across disciplinary and social perspectives. 

What We Do
Please see below for a brief overview of what we do. More details about our work – and an intake form for people interested in working with us – can be found on the Services page of our website.

• Course Offerings: We develop and teach short- and long-term undergraduate and/or graduate student courses to promote skills to participate in and/or facilitate inclusive dialogues.
• Training & Workshops: We tailor and host opportunities for professionals to learn how to lead inclusive dialogues.
• Consultations & Collaborations: We support our community and partners in developing dialogue-focused courses, initiatives, and programs.
• Ongoing Professional Development: We provide resources to encourage continuous growth in dialogical practices to address social issues within and outside the classroom.

Why We Were Founded: Advancing Education at �˻�ֱ��, Across Perspectives
As the landscape of higher education evolves, we recognize the importance of staying ahead of the curve. The IGD Training Hub was developed as a resource to equip educators to foster students’ essential skills in civic engagement and communicating effectively across differences and conflict – an area of focus identified by a recent University Task Force charged with examining civic engagement and curriculum at �˻�ֱ��.

The aforementioned task force's work was heavily guided by Edna Chun and Alvin Evans’ (2016) . Chun and Evans highlighted the importance of a socially responsible educational process in Higher Education that supports students’ identity development and promotes perspective-taking, empathizing across groups, intergroup learning, and acting in favor of social transformation. They emphasized the need to consider and evaluate how education programs address identity development as an aspect of all students’ experiences. To this end, Chun and Evans described intergroup dialogue (IGD) as a “democratic and transformative approach to  learning about social inequality, social identities, and social change” (p. 124). They noted that the core elements of IGD consist of

1. Using dialogical engagement to help students understand and analyze how power and difference are socially constructed;
2. Structuring interaction between and among different social group; and
3. Training students in practices to build community and resolve conflict.

Chun and Evans emphasized that institutional commitment and structured support are critical for fostering these skills at scale. In response, the IGD Training Hub was established to ensure that all members of the �˻�ֱ�� community, as well as those who wish to partner with us externally, have access to transformative dialogue experiences. By providing training and consultation within �˻�ֱ�� and externally, the Hub prepares students, educators, and professionals from various disciplinary paths to become adaptive leaders—capable of bridging divides, fostering collaboration, and supporting positive social transformation in an interconnected world.

Please use the tabs in the menu bar to learn more about us, request services, partner with us, and more. We look forward to hearing from you.