SAMPLE DIALOGUES

About The Sample Dialogues
We have included a number of Sample Dialogues for you to use as a boilerplate to base your own dialogues on. It is our hope that these dialogues will act as valuable tools. They are here for you to follow as closely as you would like, or not at all. They represent a wide variety of different dialogue topics and styles, and in them we have tried to represent some of the ways you may begin this process on your own campus. If you have facilitated a dialogue that has worked well, or represents something we have forgotten here, please submit it to us with a brief explanation of the event.

Do not expect your dialogues to follow the exact path that these took. Your dialogues will grow dynamically from the people who are participating. To try and make your dialogue form fit to something we have provided here would only serve to repress the dialogue. These samples are only options, ideas, or guides, at best.

Sample Dialogue Index:

• Sample Dialogue One: Students and the Public Good

• Sample Dialogue Two: Service and Politics: Making the Connection

• Sample Dialogue Three: Dialogue Based on Bush’s Commencement Address

• Sample Dialogue Four: What is Civic Engagement

• Sample Dialogue Five: Hunger and Homelessness Week

• Sample Dialogue Six: Are You Patriotic?

• Sample Dialogue Seven: Understanding September 11th

• Sample Dialogue Eight: Civic Action: The Legacy of Cesar E. Chavez
written by Julie C. Rodriguez from the Caesar E. Chavez Foundation - www.cesarechavezfoundation.org/