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
Lauren Cobb, Task Force MemberI now lead teams with a different language, using different processes, and with a different awareness of team dynamics. [I’ve seen] relationships grow and deepen, unity and commitment remain high, and mutual respect established and fostered.
Glendale Presbyterian Church, California
Undergraduate StudentI've realized how putting out my ideas affects the way other people share, and I've become much more curious about others people's perspectives.
Randolph College (VA)
Secondary School TeacherEP's approach has given me some tools to deal with what comes up in my classroom. I teach classes about charged topics. As I’m thinking about and exploring ways to broach these conversations with students, I use this.
New Jersey
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.
Related Resources
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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