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What do Culture Shift Fellows Do?

The Sustained Dialogue Institute (SDI) is a capacity-building nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that helps people transform conflictual relationships and design change processes around the world. 

Have you been invited to be a Culture Shift Fellow in your workplace, campus, or community?

Fellows will:

  • Design at least one local skillbuilding series, course, podcast, or event with an audience of your choice by December 2025
  • Be willing to report out on the effort’s impact with SDI and the SD organizers and champions in your locale
  • Receive one-on-one support, coaching, materials from SDI team members as you plan
  • Be willing to connect with and support other SDI Culture Shift Fellows invited to the 2024-2025 cohort from across the country
  • Be profiled nationally!

Your unique skills match if you:

  • Have completed SD training and feel confident in how to implement
  • Understand complex intergroup relationships in your locale
  • Understand that the campus is a set of systems to think about holistically and institutionally, and willing to consider the whole ecosystem in your initiatives
  • Have capacity, energy, interest, and willingness to use facilitation skills
  • Are considered a trusted person (maybe for many groups and roles)
  • Are willing to influence others, with empathy and without judgment
  • Are willing to repeatedly attempt to collaborate (even with past history and challenges)
  • Have ideas that create possibility 
  • Are willing to be a bright light for others, give some hope for humanity
  • Are creative in order to get unstuck from past issues and false binaries
  • Are willing to lead others, modeling skills related to coalition-building and dialogue
  • Want to work with SDI staff to propose an ongoing plan for cultural change in the areas you can influence  
 
Contact elena[at]sustaineddialogue.org for more information on eligibility.
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