Reflection On Makau And Marty's Dialogue And Deliberation

Over the course of the past week, we focused on three different types of dialogues. In Makau and Marty’s Dialogue and Deliberation, they stated that dialogue is easier said than done, and after participating and leading one myself, I couldn’t agree more. Throughout this paper, I’m going to reflect on how I prepared myself for not only listening but facilitating, my thoughts on how I participated on both sides during the dialogues, and my overall thoughts of the dialogues. While preparing for the first day of dialogue, I was very thorough. I took my own notes for each section and even wrote down some of my own questions. I wanted to make sure I was as prepared for the day as possible. I think it was sufficient, I had a lot of information …show more content…
They had their opinions but they never really questioned me about mine. The first day I was scared they were going to ask me why I thought that way and I wouldn’t have anything else to say to back it up.
I’m not 100% sure why I enjoyed facilitating so much, but I did. It was by far my favorite part of the three days. I almost felt like I was smarter than my group. As weird as that seems, I felt like a teacher. The only thing that was difficult about it was trying to keep my group engaged, but I think it would have been easier if you were there. I think without the supervision of a professor, it gave the students more reason to slack off and not try as hard. I had good information and questions, we just didn’t get to cover everything because the focus wasn’t there like it was the other two days.
I think the discussions went a lot better than I expected them to. I figured when we had different opinions one side would try and prove why they were right, but that never happened. I figured they’d be a lot more serious than they were, but they were really laid back and fun. I really liked how others opinions differed than mine because I got another perspective of