Work with Accredited Professional Dialogue Practitioner Jon Steinman to integrate Cooperative Dialogue into your workplace, governance team, or as a powerful tool to engage members.
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Cooperative Dialogue is a technique to breathe life into your co-op’s democratic roots.
Cooperative Dialogue acknowledges that at the core of democracy is how people associate with one another.
The institution itself is not democracy, the people are.
Cooperative Dialogue with member-owners and board directors of The Food Co-op (Port Townsend, WA, 2024)
Dialogue workshop with Jon Steinman at the 2022 Provender Alliance Conference (Hood River, OR)
Dialogue workshop with Jon Steinman at the 2023 Provender Alliance Conference (Hood River, OR)
Discussion vs. Dialogue. Jon Steinman explores the difference with startup food co-op board directors (host: Katie Novak Cooperative Coaching)
Dialogue and Democracy. Jon Steinman speaks with startup food co-op board directors (host: Katie Novak Cooperative Coaching)
JON STEINMAN
Jon is the author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants, a past Board Director and President of the Kootenay Co-op, and an Accredited Professional Dialogue Practitioner through the Academy of Professional Dialogue.
Jon introduced this approach to group dialogue in 2021 at Heddlestone Village – a 24-home cohousing community in Nelson, British Columbia that he co-developed.
He utilizes and introduces Cooperative Dialogue in his role as an educator and consultant to cooperative grocery stores.
