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Workshop Series
Talking Tough
Initiate, engage and respond to difficult conversations
Teachers
Leading Difficult Conversations
This workshop outlines how to use dialogical learning as a pedagogical tool for engaging students in discussions on the most contested of issues. Teachers learn how elaborative interrogation and elicitation can challenge bias, dispel ignorance and encourage convesation.
Participants will learn to:
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Identify sources of controversy.
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Dispel misunderstanding
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Establish classroom norms that encourage debate.
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Implement ready-made activities.
Students
How to Talk About Controversial Topics
This workshop provides a student-friendly toolset for engaging in difficult conversations. Using real-world examples and hands-on activities, students learn to identify the roots of disagreement and gain powerful ways to disarm even the most vehement of attacks.
Students be able to:
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Defend a position.
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Identify the source of disagreements.
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Disarm aggressive allegations.
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Speak about controversial issues.
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Become an dialogical upstander.
Navigating the Fault Lines of Conflict
Workplace
This workshop offers a toolset for engaging in difficult conversations with friends, colleagues and strangers across political and ideological divides. It offers practical ways to challenge ideas and engage in healthy arguments in a non-confrontational manner.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
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A powerful appraoch to speak about difficult topics.
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The ability to identify root cause of disputes.
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Techniques to disarm aggressive allegations.
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A non-confrontational approach to debate.
Public
Overcoming Denial and Inversion
This workshop explains the function of revisionism and denialism. Using real-world examples and hands-on activities participants learn how to identify the different forms and tropes of denialism as well as the dangers they pose.
After the workshop you’ll:
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Recognize types of denialism and inversion
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Understand the goal of denialism.
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Be able to address false allegations.
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Know how to discern facts from truth claims.
Workshop Series
Beyond the classroom
Employ the most effective educational theories into everyday practice
Assessment
AI and Assessment
This workshop explores how AI technology can enhance academic integrity by scaling the triangulation of assessment. Challenging the view that AI undermines assessment practice, a change in methodology can leverage new tools to improve understanding while safeguarding student data and ensuring privacy.
Participants will explore the:
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Impact of AI on learning.
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Changing assessment landscape.
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Princioles of backward design & triangulation of assessment.
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Best practices for ensuring academic integrity.
Motivation
Build artifacts
This workshop provides an overview of Constructionism as a mastery learning framework. Using easy-to-implement activities and real world examples, participants learn how product creation and service learning enhances student engagement and motivate.
Participants will leave knowing:
- How trust inspires learning.
- The four pillars of motivation.
- The benefit of mastery leaning.
- Why constructionism is ideally suited for 21st century challenges.
Innovation
Design thinking
This workshop introduces participants to principles of design thinking. Simulations and activities showcase the transformative impact of the design thinking framework on critical thinking and learning. Participants will learn how divergent thinking can boost creativity and foster collaborative problem solving.
Participants gain confidence in
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Iterative design.
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Mistake making.
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Framing problems.
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Storytelling.
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Pitching ideas .
Communication
Dialogical learning
This workshop provides practical ways to improve communication using the principles of dialogical learning. Through structured activities, participants apply deductive inquiry as a means of encouraging meaningful conversation and deepening understanding.
Participants gain practice in
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Active listening.
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Deductive inquiry.
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Inspiring prompting.
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The 3 rules of dialogical engagement.
Expert Consultations
Transform your learning goals into action. Whether looking to support staff, inspire students or innovate your practice, let's explore ways to improve communication, address conflict and inspire innovation. Let us develop tailored solutions for your needs that include clear targets, ready to use material and measurable outcomes.
New book coming soon
Faultines
A guide to restoring the dialectic and saving our public spaces
We all hold differences of opinions. The ability to discuss opposing ideas is basis for healthy relationships and a well-functioning society. Today these conversations feel increasingly hostile, precarious and risky. Little space remains for polite disagreement, friendly debate, and honest conversations. This book explains the collapse of the public sphere as symptomatic of deep profound ideological schisms. Mapping these faultines of conflict is a necessary precursor for restoring our capacity for civil discourse. Drawing on his decades of classroom experience, Ilan Danjoux offers a new approach for engaging controversy in productive fashion. Readers learn how to identify various rhetorical devices and use dialogical learning and deductive inquiry to respond effectively.
Media Appearances
A curated selection of insights, research, and commentary featured across international media platforms and academic publications.
The untold story of the high schools trapped in the AI boom
The Logic • 2025, Catherine McIntyre
Challenging the Dystopian Future of AI-infused Classroom
Ontario Tech University • 2024, Heather Leatham and Ilan Danjoux
Does the language we speak influence the way we think?
The Medium • 2022, Amani Al-Dailami
SHIELD initiative brings fun for sick kids
Global News • 2019
about ilan
Ilan Danjoux is an award winning teacher, author and educational consultant dedicated to transformative learning experience. With a focus on applying best pedagogical practices beyond the classroom, he challenge traditional boundaries to cultivate creative thinking and collaborative problem-solving. His approach is rooted in constructionism, mastery learning and dialogical learning.
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