Dialogic Leadership Institute
Lead Connection & Coalition-Building for Collective Change
Program begins July 2026
Enrollment opens soon.
You've developed deep expertise as a leader and advocate,
and you’re ready to support the next wave of progressive change,
but you know that the work can't be done alone.
Real transformation requires collective leadership.
Discover the Impact of Co-Creative Leadership.
The Dialogic Leadership Institute is the foundational facilitative skills development program for social impact leaders and consultants, designed to help you build on your expertise and gain the mindset, skillset, and toolset needed to lead teams and coalitions in the work of culture and systems change.
Join the Dialogic Leadership Institute
and learn how to
Build relationships of trust across differences in collaborative workgroups.
Facilitate effective dialogue about complex social and organizational issues.
Design and lead dynamic learning, strategy, and action planning workshops.
Are You Ready for DLI?
Take the Facilitative Leader Assessment
Identify your strengths and areas for growth as a collaborative dialogue and social change facilitator.
Get clarity on your current collaborative leadership skills strengths.
Identify critical skills and tools you need to enhance your effectiveness.
Get a one-on-one Connection & Coaching Call to map out next steps of your development.
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"I appreciate walking away with new frameworks. As someone who tends to jump in when something is important, it's great to combat the culture of urgency, and center relationships and collective learning first."
- Vanessa S.
Founder & Director,
Empowered Mind Therapy Center -
"This experience exceeded my expectations. I gained a great appreciation for the details involved in creating space. I never realized so much thought went into facilitation!"
- MaryAnn T.
Senior Data Specialist,
Los Angeles County Office of Education -
"I really appreciate that our learning circles have given me a space to stop, reflect, and reframe my own approach to my work."
- Jennifer C.
Independent Consultant,
Marine Biologist & Conservation Practitioner
The Dialogic Leadership Institute is designed for leaders and consultants who need to:
BUILD meaningful relationships and a culture of trust within collaborative teams and coalitions.
DESIGN impactful learning experiences that promote collective growth, learning, and change.
GUIDE communication and engagement across differences, moving beyond debate and competition to deep dialogue and cooperation.
FACILITATE strategic visioning and action planning.
A Look Inside the Program
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Develop your facilitative MINDSET:
Develop your unique culturally-rooted facilitative leadership style.
Expand your leadership from technical expert to people leader.
Strengthen your capacity to connect and support people with different backgrounds, identities, and perspectives.
Deepen self-awareness and emotional intelligence to lead rationally, relationally, and intuitively.
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Strengthen your facilitative SKILLSET:
Advise individual leaders and groups through all stages of team development.
Understand group dynamics from a culturally proficient and equity, inclusion, and justice lens.
Build positive relationships and equitable participation across differences within collaborative workgroups.
Support learning, growth, and change within groups and teams through facilitation, coaching, and training.
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Expand your facilitative TOOLSET:
Guide individuals and groups through new experiences that open the mind and expand thinking.
Support groups and teams to build trust, navigate conflict, and take collaborative action.
Practice shared leadership through co-design and co-facilitation.
Learn to design and lead groups through deep dialogue, experiential learning, and collaborative workshopping.
Meet the Program Guide
Alan Wesley Goff is an educator, facilitator, and transformational leadership coach. He guides individuals and groups in deep dialogue and discovery to create individual and collective transformation.
Alan has been a social justice educator and intergroup dialogue facilitator for 20 years, supporting generations of justice-driven leaders, educators, and advocates in the long-term work of collective healing and change.
He envisions a world where individuals and communities draw from the wisdom of intangible heritage and ancestral technologies to heal from the past, and to create thriving futures grounded in balance, wellbeing, cooperation, and connection with all people and the planet.
As the facilitator of Align & Guide, Alan incorporates lessons and frameworks gained from over two decades of scholarship and practice. He supports participants to develop both solid skills and their own intuitive clarity to drive justice-centered transformation in their organizations and communities.
Common Questions
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The Align & Guide facilitative leadership program is for experienced leaders and consultants who work across many sectors, fields, and identities, but are united by a common commitment to supporting collective healing and justice-centered change.
Participants serve in various capacities, including:
LEADERS
- Managers, administrators, supervisors, & project leads
- Executive team leads, board members, & committee chairs
- Public servants & local government leaders
EXPERTS
- Educators, researchers, & scholars
- Consultants, advisors, & coaches
ADVOCATES
- Community leaders, organizers, & strategists
- Social workers & community healing practitioners
- Equity, justice, & human rights advocates
Align & Guide is for you if:✓ You are building or leading a collaborative change-focused workgroup, team, committee, or coalition.
✓ You are supporting or leading a significant culture or systems change initiative in your organization or community.
✓ You are moving into greater management, leadership, or consulting from a technical expert, practitioner, or operational role.
✓ You are an organizer or advocate for social, cultural, or systems change in your organization or community.
✓ You want to grow your capacity and confidence as an equity and justice-centered team leader.
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To ensure equity and accessibility, the program fee is determined by a number of factors including professional sector and institutional affiliation.
Anyone who wants to join should apply, regardless of financial situation. Specific information about pricing will be shared with fitting applicants.
Align & Guide was created to support facilitative leaders that are working for a better future, regardless of their current level of financial resource.
All participants get the same experience, resources, and support regardless of their pricing tier.
Flexible payment plans and other creative options are also available to ensure that anyone who should be in the circle will be.
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Program fees are not refundable. However, life happens, and facilitative leadership is a lifelong journey. If you need or want to withdraw from the program before Week 3, you can apply your full program fee to a future program.
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Learning and growing as a transformational facilitative leader is lifelong work. After completing the program, you will be welcomed into the Sambai Circle's growing community of justice-centered facilitative leaders, and will have access to resources, and upcoming trainings, dialogues, and workshops. You will also be eligible for facilitation and leadership coaching at reduced rates, and discounted pricing for some future programs.
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Schedule a Connection Call to explore your questions and discover if Align & Guide or other Sambai Circle programs and services would serve you.
