Project Service Leadership

Quarter 1 – Goals
Syllabus

• Practice active, compassionate listening to understand different perspectives.
• Understand the difference between dialogue and debate.
• Learn and practice the basic strategies of dialogue through listening, discussion, writing, and regular reflection.
• Read poetry, articles, and personal narratives for understanding, meaning and significance to the world context.
• Work together with others toward a common understanding of important issues.

Quarter 2 – Goals
Syllabus

• Prepare effective, meaningful questions for interviews about sensitive subjects.
• Ask follow-up questions during an interview to deepen the conversation.
• Interview war veterans, soldiers, peace activists and others about their experiences.
• Understand the complexity of war from different perspectives.
• Develop a better understanding of your own perspective on the issues we explore by working with Write Around Portland.
• Publish an Anthology of Voices about Conflict & Community.
• Present the anthology to the community through a public reading and fundraiser.

The class was designed meet the state standards for listening and writing