How we engage matters. Sarah Pharaon makes conversations productive, enabling teams to work more effectively.

Our clients

We work with organizations across the cultural sector, including art museums, historic sites, historic homes, parks, universities and aquariums.

Recent projects

Dialogue in Place, WA State Historical Society

Dialogue in Place addresses historical monuments placed by the Washington State Historical Society to acknowledge the wounding consequence of these monuments on Tribal communities and take action to ensure that WSHS minimizes further harm by supporting an inclusive historical account. Learn more here.

Dig Deeper, Corning Museum of Glass

Dialogic led community workshops for Dig Deeper, an exhibition that shares artifacts excavated by archaeologists from the Corning Museum of Glass and University of Missouri, Columbia, from a glass workshop in Jalame, near Haifa in modern Israel. Learn more here.

MONUMENTS, MOCA Los Angeles

Dialogic designed and facilitated onsite training with MONUMENTS team members to develop interpretive non-negotiables, teach the basics of facilitation and dialogic response, develop dialogic questions to facilitate informal onsite engagement, and provide basic training in conflict resolution. Learn more here.

 

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What’s New

Facilitating for AASLH

Sarah will be working with the American Association for State and Local History to design facilitation and audience engagement strategies for an upcoming virtual summit on museums and democracy.

You can learn more about the summit as information becomes available, here.

 

      

 

Facilitating for IMLS

We’re thrilled to be working with the Institute for Museum and Library Services again as they host three small virtual gatherings and prepare for an onsite summit on Museums & AI in Washington, D.C.

Congratulations!

To our colleagues at HNOC on receiving the History in Progress Award from AASLH for Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration. Dialogic helped design programming and provided training to accompany this public history exhibition examining mass incarceration through a historical lens.

You can find out more here.