FacilitateDialog: InYourShoe

2 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

How can we invite members of our campus community to meaningfully engage with others who hold different perspectives, backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths? And how might the Georgetown campus or experience change when we engage across silos and divides? Since 2018, the In Your Shoes (IYS) project, created by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, has been a way to move beyond social divides by illuminating the hopes, fears, and dreams that animate the daily lives of students through performance and dialogue. Students in this course will build upon the IYS experience by learning and practicing critical facilitation strategies used in the IYS approach. By the end of the class, students will help co-facilitate IYS Dialogues between students, faculty, and staff to illuminate the different perspectives on identity and learning on our shared campus. Students will also present on IYS to audiences outside of the classroom community. Interested students do not need to have any previous performance or facilitation experience, though previous experience with IYS is strongly encouraged (students can also take the 1-credit IYS class offered in Spring 2022). To enroll in the course, students will need to complete a short interest form to receive instructor permission.