"The means is dialogue, the end is learning, the purpose is peace." ~ Founder Dr. Jane Vella

Downloadable Resources

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Conversations on the Back Porch: Podcasts with Dr. Jane Vella

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Learning Designs and Spontaneity podcast, dr. jane vella
The Seven Steps of Design podcast, dr. jane vella
Safety First! podcast, dr. jane vella
The Learning Needs and Resources Assessment podcast, dr. jane vella

Articles, Tip Sheets & Tools

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10 ways to get quick feedback - in Haitian Creole tips & tools
Six Core DE Principles examples tips & tools
15 tips for working effectively with interpreters tips & tools
Design Layout - a template and tips tips & tools
checklist for your design tips & tools
10 Types of Learners tips & tools
10 types of learners - in Haitian Creole tips & tools
10 Tips to Get People Talking tips & tools
10 tips to effective email communication - with colleagues and clients tips & tools
10 tips to effective email communication - with family and friends tips & tools
10 ways to get quick feedback tips & tools
10 Tips for Using Guidelines tips & tools
10 Tips for Using Effective Visuals tips & tools
10 Ways to Minimize Resistance tips & tools
10 tips for using effective visuals - in Haitian Creole tips & tools
10 Tips for Effective Faciliation tips & tools
10 Tips for Co-Training tips & tools
10 DE Tips for Camping tips & tools
10 Tips for Co-Facilitation of Meetings tips & tools
10 Steps for Preparing Your Workshop tips & tools
10 Critical Principles tips & tools
5 Tips for Working with Small Groups tips & tools
5 Tips for Working with Large Groups tips & tools
10 Tip for Co-Facilitating (Haitian Creole) tips & tools
Tips for Staying in the Present Moment tips & tools
Resistance Overcome by Courage tips & tools
Open Questions tips & tools
No Right Answer and a LOT to Learn tips & tools
Minimizing Resistance Checklist tips & tools
More Open Questions tips & tools
Learning Task: Meeting and Planning for Resistance tips & tools
Learning Task: Tough Situations: How to Overcome Resistance tips & tools
How Am I Ensuring Meaningful Decision-making in my Learning Events? tips & tools
Learning Task Assessment Matrix tips & tools
Example Actions for Leveling the Playing Field tips
From Learning Tasks to Back at Work tips & tools
Begin With the End in Mind: Three Levels of Evaluation tips
Active Listening: Practicing Safely With a Trusted Peer tips & tools
Active Listening Cards tips
A Sample Learning Task: Monologue vs. Dialogue tips
A Dialogue with Resistance - a workshop by Bert Troughton tips
Simplicity! tips & tools
Warm-ups: Sequence, Congruence, Affect tips & tools
Meeting and Planning For Resistance tips & tools
From Criticism to a Practice of Inquiry tips & tools
Education as the Practice of Freedom tips & tools
Designing Respectfully for Learners with Varying Levels of Experience tips & tools
Designing Respectfully for Learners with Varying Levels of Experience tips & tools
Gratitude for the Principles & Practices of Dialogue Education™ tips & tools
Talking Too Much? tips & tools
LNRA: What’s in a Question? tips & tools
Dialogue and Staying on Track tips & tools
Open Questions and their Relationship to Levels of Cognitive Learning using Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonom tips & tools
Reinforcement: Same Melody, Different Key
LNRA: Observation tips & tools
Creative Learning Events or “Same Old, Same Old”? tips & tools
30 Ways to Affirm
17 Warm-up Examples

Jane's Journal Archives: 2003 Entries

File Name Tags
Happy New Year! journal entry
A Fast for Peace journal entry
Dialogue Education: A Case Book journal entry
Tragedy and Education journal entry
A Quiet Time journal entry
Foreword to Dialogue Education: A Case Book journal entry
“Tell Me a Story—and Put Me In It!!” journal entry
Safety in the Learning Environment journal entry
Choose Life journal entry
72nd Birthday journal entry
Hello Miss Hepburne! journal entry
What’s an Old Lady For? journal entry
Dialogue Education™ at Work journal entry
The Sabbath Decade journal entry
The Burden of Contentment journal entry
What Will Stand the Test of Time? journal entry
Impact Studies tips, journal entry
What I Do Is Me? tips
A Gathering tips
Celebrate and Document! journal entry
Seasons of the Soul journal entry

Jane's Journal Archives: 2004 Entries

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A Good Week journal entry
The Uses of Beauty journal entry
A Book Launch journal entry
A Gift for Spring Time journal entry
Impact Studies journal entry
Russell-Einstein Manifesto journal entry
A Letter from Ken Williams journal entry
The Anatomy of Hope journal entry
E.J. Boone Adult Education Enhancement Award journal entry
Impact Studies journal entry
An Exhilarating Review journal entry
A Reflection journal entry
Connections and Consciousness interview

Voices in Dialogue

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Learning-Centered, Learner-Centered, Teacher-Centered… What’s the Difference? archived issues
The Means is Dialogue, the End is Learning, the Purpose is Peace archived issues

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