Essential Partners
Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, NC, has collaborated with Essential Partners since 2020 to build a school culture of dialogue. What does a culture of dialogue mean? Hear about it firsthand from the ...
Essential Partners hosted its 35th Anniversary Virtual Gala on December 10, 2024. A celebration of the legacy, impact, and mission, the event featured Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhi...
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Charles Duhigg joined Essential Partners co-Executive Director John Sarrouf for a conversation at EP's 35th Anniversary Virtual Gala. The two spoke a...
EP's John Sarrouf talks with members of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region trained in our Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD) approach about the challenges that face their community and what RS...
Essential Partners was honored to be selected to receive a Healing Starts Here grant from the New Pluralists. In May, we joined more than 70 fellow organizations for a retreat to celebrate, learn, ...
Essential Partners was proud to partner with Living Room Conversations, iCivics, and ListenFirst for this Civic Learning Week panel on bridging in schools. The panel was moderated by Kathy Anthes, ...
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. Learn more at whatisessential.org
“I looked at what Essential Partners was offering and I said, Oh, this is what's missing in classrooms.” High school educator Catherine Anderson teaches at Boulevard Academy, a school for at-risk y...
Rising senior Sophia Hopper has participated in a collaboration between Ravenscroft School in North Carolina and Essential Partners, learning to design and lead healthier dialogue about controversi...
Emma Hernandez, a Juniata College student, participated in an Essential Partners training as a Freshman. In this video, she talks about leading campus culture dialogues with faculty, students, and ...
When you convene a group or facilitate a conversation, poetry serves as a powerful, multifaceted tool. Essential Partners Associate Phoebe Sinclair reflects on the many purposes of the art for dial...
Amy Albrecht is the Director of the Center for a Vital Community at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyonming. Since 2017, the Sheridan community has collaborated with Essential Partners to build thei...
Across the country, cities are being asked to not only fix potholes but to lead on so many critical issues, from gun violence to climate resilience. To meet the challenges of the moment, we need ci...
At any family gathering or neighborhood block party, there's always a moment that tempts you to react, argue, or attack. EP's John Sarrouf prepares himself for that moment in advance—with this simp...
For several years, Essential Partners has collaborated with educators, students, and school leaders at Park County School District in Cody, WY.
This impact snapshot highlights one educator who ha...
Mitchell McKinney is Deputy Police Chief of Apex Police Department in Apex, North Carolina as well as a participant in the Essential Photovoice initiative.
Essential Photovoice is an innovative vi...