European Network for Dialogue Facilitation (ENDF)

ENDF is a result of the multilateral project "DIALOGUE - Facilitating Creative Communication" which trained trainers from different countries in dialogue facilitation based on the methodological approach developed by David Bohm and others.    The purpose of the network is education and further education for enhancing dialogical skills of individuals and groups in different fields of practice to promote respectful, tolerant and diversity appreciating attitudes for co-operation of people and organisations on different levels. Promoting dialogical intercultural and interreligious communication for common and mutual learning is one of the main aims. Members are certified dialogue facilitators from 10 countries and dialogue facilitating trainers and researchers with teaching background in universities. One of the main purposes is transnational cooperation and project work aiming at networking of these experts. The extended board consists of 11 experts. They have built and are active in working groups like research, training of trainers, certification standards for facilitators, quality assurance and ethical standards, summer academies, project development. All of them are dealing in their professional life with the subject of dialogical communication but from different perspectives - like research, teaching, training, facilitating etc. Sources of funding for our work are projects, participation fees for workshops, seminars and conferences as well as fees of participants in German Training of Trainer courses for Dialogue Facilitation. Concrete projects are workshops for refugees, young people, children, families, Training of Trainers for dialogue facilitation (in German and English), project work with Tunisian partners (ToTs for Dialogue Facilitation). Partners are civil society organisations all over Europe, German NGOs, private companies, foundations.