We partner with communities and organizations around the globe, equipping them to navigate the values, beliefs, and identities that are essential to them.
Our Impact
Belle AbayaWhat is special about Essential Partners' approach is that it promotes authenticity, reduces defensiveness, increases curiosity, and boosts connectedness.
The Conflict Resolution Group Foundation, Philippines
High School StudentI learned that through productive dialogue, you can make relationships and friendships with people through talking about your differences and similarities.
Newburyport, MA
Meirav Solomon ’21Vulnerability is the key. A lot of perspective-taking is based in vulnerability. It’s the key ingredient in a good structured dialogue. It’s crucial to the ‘meet me in the middle’ experience that dialogue is all about.
Cary Academy, NC
Race in America: A Free Dialogue Guide from Essential Partners
This free guide draws on decades of experience engaging with communities, schools, faith institutions, and organizations as they wrestle with issues of race. It is designed for anyone who hopes to have deeper, more open, inclusive, and transformative conversations about race and racism in their community.
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EP in the News: Revving up the ‘curiosity engine’ in inclusive class discussions
“Dialogue shifts the focus from the teacher as the source of all information to the students as the co-creators of ideas, conversation and curiosity,” John Sarrouf tells District Administration. “And the moment you know that it’s working is when a student turns toward another to ask a genuinely curious question to understand more about what the other student has said.”
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