Dialogue is a facilitated conversation which provides a simple and effective format to establish common ground and practice thinking together. In a Dialogue setting, clear guidelines allow all perspectives to be heard and understood. It is an effective format for multi-stakeholder issues and cross cultural working together. Dialogue generates engagement, alignment and strategic reflection. Dialogue is also an accessible way to address concerns and to uncover underlying issues.

My online dialogue work started at the beginning of the pandemic and provided a lifeline and continuous work. Now it remains and an effective way to maintain exchange with people based in different countries while saving travel costs and operating from the safety and comfort of our homes. .

What can I offer?

• One to one practice for dialogue skills and conversational leadership : Thinking Partner
• Training on: Dialogue, dialogic communication and cross cultural communication (online and in person)
• Convening dialogue meetings
• Facilitating online dialogues
• Facilitating story telling exchanges for empathy building and empowerment

Dialogue courses for international students

• Soliya Global Circles: (March 2026): Faith and Doubt in a Polarised World
• Soliya Connect Global (Autumn 2025): Global and Social Challenges
• Soliya Global Circles: (Spring 2025): Polarisation and Social Media: Can we free ourselves from algorithms?
• Soliya Connect Global (Autumn 2024): Global and Social Challenges
• Soliya Global Circles (June 2024): What is a meaningful life?
• Soliya Connect Global (Spring 2024): Global and Social Challenges
• Soliya Global Circles (February 2024): Social Media: How to express solidarity without adding fuel to conflict?
• Soliya Global Connect (Autumn 2023): Global and Social Challenges
• Soliya Global Circles (October 2023): Artificial Intelligence
• Soliya Global Collaborate (April 2023)
• Soliya Global Circles (March 2023): Metaverse and virtual life
• Soliya Connect Global (Autumn 2022): Intercultural communication
• Soliya Global Circles (March 2022): Social Media – A blessing or a curse?
• Soliya Connect Global (Autumn 2021): Online dialogue course on engaging with difference around current social challenges and world events
• SharingPerspectivesFoundation: Climate Movements – online course on 21st century skills (Autumn 2021)
• Soliya Connect Program (April 2021): Cross-Cultural Communication in the Digital Age
• SharingPerspectivesFoundation: Cultural Encounters: The Big Climate Move (Autumn 2020)

Citizen dialogues

• Facilitating dialogue tables for BrusselsinDialogue (2016-2019)

Qualifications and training

• Wisdom Training with Netzwerk Ethik heute, Germany: Self-knowledge through weekly exchanges with experts in the field of philisophy, psychology, natural sciences and Buddhism (September 2023 – June 2025)
• Using Interreligious Dialogue to Strengthen Peace, Reconciliation and Social Cohesion, KAICIID Dialogue Center (May – June 2024)
• Professional Dialogue Practitioner, Accreditation Course, Academy of Professional Dialogue (February 2022 – July 2022)
• Member of the Academy of Professional Dialogue (since 2020)
• Narrative4 Story telling facilitator (January 2021)
• Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange Facilitator (2020)