4 Kawalah St, Abdeen
Cairo
Cairo Governorate
11613
Egypt
- International/Cultural relations
The Dialogue Company is a training and consultancy social enterprise working in the field of Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Non-Violent Communication. The company is building on the history of the Ambassadors for Dialogue project in Egypt, where there is a team of more than 200 trained dialogue facilitators from all over Egypt facilitating dialogue spaces, teaching people about dialogue, and opening dialogue about a diversity of issues. The company offers a variety of activities that help individuals and institutions enhance their capacities through learning about dialogue, conflict resolution, and nonviolent communication. We work on the national level in Egypt, on the Regional level in the Arab world, and internationally as well.
The company has 5 employees at the moment.
Budget resources for the past 6 months:
1. A project with the Danish youth Council (DUF)
2. Training consultancies with: The American University in Cairo, Terres des hommes (TDH), The Czech Embassy, The Egyptian Association for Community Development (EACD)
A bit of History:
In 2009, three organizations came together to work on the Ambassadors for Dialogue project from Egypt, Jordan, and Denmark. Soon enough the project extended its work to Tunisia as well.
In Egypt, Ambassadors for dialogue worked as a project from 2009 until 2016 under the legal umbrella of the Egyptian Youth Federation. In September 2017 the Legal umbrella of the project changed to the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI) until February 2023. In March 2023, Ambassadors for Dialogue Egypt was founded as a training and consultancy company called “The Dialogue Company”. In pursuit of keeping the identity of the project, the company is founded as a social enterprise with the main aim of keeping the activities that serve the youth accessible and open.
From 2009 to 2023 in numbers:
220 young people from Egypt were trained as dialogue facilitators, 100 of which are currently active and are capable of facilitating dialogue spaces and dialogue workshops in all the governorates around Egypt.
More than 22,000 participants across Egypt participated in our dialogue workshops.
We have worked in 25 governorates across Egypt.
We have provided more than 1000 workshops for diverse target groups among which are youth, children and employees.
We have trained 7 international teams who have facilitated workshops in Denmark, Egypt, Tunis, and Jordan.
We have developed several training Manuals, one of which is the Dialogue Handbook that gathers our methodology, another is how to establish and sustain an international partnership.
Example of Previous Partnerships:
Throughout the years, Ambassadors for Dialogue has worked with different partnerships whether non-governmental, governmental, or private, some of which are:
Public and Private universities such as: Ain Shams University, and Mansoura University, American University of Cairo.
Ministries such as: Ministry of Youth and Sports, and Ministry of social solidarity.
International aid organizations such as GIZ.
Different UN agencies such as: UNCRC and UNV.
Different International organizations such as: Goethe, CRS, Save the children, and TDH.
Some student activities and NGOs such as: Enactus, Ruwaad, Alwan w Awtar, and Tawasol.
Our vision is: to promote peaceful coexistence by means of dialogue.
Our main objective is: to enhance mutual understanding between youth across national, cultural, ideological and other divides.
Our methodology:
Our main methodology is dialogue. By dialogue, we mean this special form of communication where the participants seek to actively create greater mutual understanding and deeper insight. This type of dialogue is mainly built on four main principles: trust, openness, honesty, and equality. In our workshops and trainings, we depend on Experiential learning and gamification for more engagement of the participants in the learning process.
What we offer:
We Offer Training, workshops, manual development, games design.
In training we offer:
Short training to train people on dialogue and how to use dialogue tools in their daily lives or their professional lives. And long training to train people on how to facilitate dialogue spaces and how to use dialogue as a methodology.
In workshops we offer:
Long and short workshops that help participants experience dialogue through interactive activities. The workshops focuses can vary between dialogue with the self, dialogue with the other, and how to work in a team using dialogue.
In Manual development we offer:
Manuals design that are engaging and that have dialogue as a component. The Manuals could be about any topic or theme like gender or environment, and the company will write it in an engaging and dialogical way.
In Games design we offer:
Dialogical games that introduce dialogue in informal spaces. A dialogical game means that the players play a game and engage in dialogue with one another while playing the game. The dialogue company has produced 7ewary game which is a board game that helps players engage in dialogue.
We have accummulated 14 years of experience in working with non violent communication, specifically dialogue. This accumulated knowledge and expertise could be channeled into the activities of the network to strengthen the ties of the network members, possibly develop their skills if and when its needed, and also jointly plan activities together. And of course whatever is seen fit the ALF team.
Joining the network for us would mean exposure to a diversity of organizations with a diversity of expertise which will be a big learning opportunity. On the other hand, what the foundation itself offers from support in the shape of the programs it is offering would be a source of learning.