ESSENTIAL PARTNERS
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Mission Statement
Essential Partners equips people to live and work better together in community by building trust, understanding, and connection across differences. We envision a world of thriving communities, strengthened by difference and connected by trust.
About This Cause
Founded in 1989 as the Public Conversations Project, Essential Partners equips people to live and work better together in community by building trust, understanding, and connection across differences. EP’s trademark methodology—Reflective Structured Dialogue—helps communities and institutions have healthier, more complex, more inclusive conversations about polarizing differences of values, beliefs, and identities—whether the issue is building a new public school in Ohio or addressing the global refugee crisis in Jordan. We envision a world of thriving communities strengthened by difference, connected by trust. Essential Partners helps civic groups, faith communities, colleges, and organizations build resilience, cohesion, and trust across deep divides of values, beliefs, and identities. We do this in several ways: * By training stakeholders in our trademark dialogue approach * Through long-term collaborations to shift community or institutional culture * By co-creating new proprietary programs and materials * Through remote program design consultation and coaching * By facilitating dialogue around particularly tough topics To find out more about how we work, who we work with, and how we have impacted communities around the United States and the world, please visit our website: https://www.whatisessential.org. Our 30+ years of work and leadership has been recognized in the following honors and awards: * Community Peacemaker Award (The Community Dispute Settlement Center, 2016) * D'Alemberte Raven Award (American Bar Association section of Dispute Resolution, 2016) * The President's Award (The Southern California Mediation Association, 2006) * Award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy (American Family Therapy Academy, 1999) * Eureka Mentor Award in Recognition of Dedication, Commitment, and Community Service (Eureka Bay Area Communities, 1999) * Mary Parker Follett Award for Excellence and Innovation in Dispute Resolution (The Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, 1997)