Dialogue Moderators

The work of an SD Moderator is demanding and time-consuming, but also extremely rewarding and critically important to making Sustained Dialogue an effective agent of change on your campus. Sustained Dialogue has the capacity to improve communities – but only when implemented effectively. It is the quality of dialogue groups in an SD program rather than the quantity that makes a campus program strong.

As the moderator of an SD group, you and your co-moderator have the responsibility and the opportunity to bring together students who might not ordinarily get to know one another in a safe but challenging space.

Each group presents unique challenges, by virtue of its unique dynamic, even for experienced moderators. We encourage you throughout the year to call on SDCN and the resources that we make available. The skills that you will develop in this role will prove more useful and in more contexts than you may realize. Moderating an SD group is an eye-opening experience: it reveals your own capacity to make communication and connection possible between the most unlikely of individuals. As a moderator, you can credit yourself with making this diverse movement of passionate students happen. Hard work is in store in moderating Sustained Dialogue. Our experience shows, however, that students have the capacity to improve community relations on their campus. Please know that you have company in this important work.

We can’t emphasize enough how much you, your group participants, and your community have to gain from your work as a moderator. Enjoy this experience – it promises to enrich your experience at school, and others’ as well!

For resources related to moderating dialogues in Sustained Dialogue, please navigate the links to the left.