Application Deadline Extended to July 2 for 2010-2011 Fielding DPPE Certificate Pgm

Here's a message from Linda Blong at Fielding University about their award-winning DPPE Certificate program that may be of interest and that we've blogged about previously:

I want to let you all know that Fielding's Institute for Social Innovation has extended the deadline for applications for sponsorships to participate in the award winning DDPE program that begins in August 2010. Here is some information about the program and sponsorships:

Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certificate (DDPE)
August 16, 2010 – January 18, 2011

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Deadline Extended to July 2, 2010

The dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement certificate helps you build mastery by working with a scholar-practitioner model of collaborative learning and reflective practice. An exceptional faculty of scholar-practitioners who do real world work in diverse contexts and cultures, will support your learning and provide coaching for a culminating capstone project over 19 weeks of online, telephone, and 2 face to face workshops.

You should participate in this program and its on-going community of practice if you want to:
· Learn about the field of dialogue and deliberation in conversation with those who are leading and shaping it;
· Engage in structured, collaborative critical self-reflection focused on you as a practitioner;
· Analyze specific situations and chose wisely what dialogic, deliberative or engagement process is most appropriate;
· Understand how dialogic and deliberative processes work in some situations but not in others;
· Develop diagnostic, design, and in-the-moment facilitation skills;
· Explore conceptual and theoretical foundations of dialogic and deliberative practice; and,
· Belong to an international community of practice of like-minded people.

This program is available for 8 academic graduate credits.
For more information about the program and tuition, please see: http://www.fielding.edu/programs/ce/ddpe

The Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University announces partial sponsorships of up to $1,300 to professionals based in the US who are interested in improving their practice and beginning a project in the area of dialogue, deliberation, and public engagement. We are particularly interested in participants who have the opportunity and interest in supporting dialogic, deliberative and engagement practices in their organizations or communities through projects which have the potential to build civic engagement capacity.

Applicants must have organizational support in the form of commitment to dialogue, deliberation and public engagement. Applicants with financial support from their organization/community will be given preference. Applicants can be from any sector of society: nonprofit, government, or for-profit. (To be eligible you must live in the United States.)

The review team is now accepting applications until July 2, 2010. If you are interested in submitting an application, please send the following by email to krogers@fielding.edu.

1. Two page description of how you intend to use this certificate in your work; a description of a potential project opportunity that would help build capacity for and through dialogue, deliberation, and/or public engagement. We are particularly interested in community-based projects focused on local capacity building in civic engagement.
2. An email letter of support for the potential project from your organization or community with an indication of their financial contribution.

For questions related to the sponsorships please contact: Dr. Katrina Rogers, Fielding Graduate University (805) 898-2924 Email: krogers@fielding.edu

Linda Blong, Ph.D.
Program Co-Leader
Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certificate Program
Fielding Graduate University
http://www.fielding.edu/programs/ce/ddpe
lblong@fielding.edu
707-364-7710 cell