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, and universities.
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
Planning with NCPH
Kicking off this fall, Sarah will be working with the National Council on Public History to update their long range plan. Are you a member and have thoughts - or even dreams - to share? Get in touch with Sarah here.
Congratulations!
To our colleagues at CCAHA on their recent IMLS National Leadership Grant. We’re excited to develop Stewarding Collections Through Institutional Change: A Facilitation Framework for Museums with you as we develop tools to help collecting organizations navigate closure and mergers, undertake large strategic deaccessioning initiatives and other major transitions.
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.
