About Civil Discourse
Deliberation involves the best parts of dialogue (conversational) and debate (argument) to offer an experience where participants can learn from one another by talking through different perspectives and approaches to local and global issues and working together to come up with community action steps.
Baylor Public Deliberation Initiative is a departmental program of Baylor Intercultural Engagement.
As a Center for Public Life with the Kettering Foundation, we invite Baylor students, staff, and faculty as well as local community members to participate in forums about local and national issues to better understand the perspectives, possible outcomes, and trade-offs of different options.
Benefits of engaging in deliberation: Civic literacy, active listening, humility, non-dualistic thinking, GRIT, facilitation skills & more!