We at Dialogue Praxis are passionate about dialogue. We truly believe that the habit, custom, and practice of quality dialogue is fundamental to professional success and personal satisfaction. We bring over three decades of combined teaching, facilitating, and training experience along with a deep commitment to the practice and art of dialogue to every workshop.

Margaret Anderson, Co-Founder
Margaret holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Sonoma State University (Hutchins School of Liberal Studies), and a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College. She has taught for eighteen years in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University and organized activities in coordination with the Associated Students Productions for pre- and post-dialogue discussions around complex issues and topics such as race, gender, politics, and sexuality via extracurricular events, lectures, films and workshops.

Previously, as Director of California Programs for Touchstones Discussion Project, she trained over 1,200 AVID teachers to implement weekly dialogue seminars in public schools. Margaret has facilitated discussions in a variety of settings, including prisons, schools, and businesses and has extensive experience training educators and professionals across the disciplines for both public and private institutions in the art of dialogue. After years of informal classroom use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to identify basic preferences in the way people construct experiences and interact in the world, Margaret completed MBTI certification in 2015. She believes that introducing a shared vocabulary of the Myers-Briggs personality types based on four primary cognitive functions in discussions is useful in developing participant awareness of other learning and conversation styles.

In her work, Margaret has witnessed how engaging in a model of dialogue can greatly improve human relationships and learning, allowing people with differing values and perspectives to find common ground by furthering their understanding of themselves and others.

Nina Carrieri, Co-Founder
Nina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Sonoma State University (Hutchins School of Liberal Studies), and a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College. Nina taught college-level English Literature and Composition for many years and has extensive experience working with groups of all ages  with skill sets including teaching, training, office administration, program coordination, dialogue process, and facilitation. She currently teaches high school English.

In her work, Nina has witnessed how group conversations can be transformed by creating an awareness of group dynamics and practicing simple but effective seminar process activities.

Dialogue Praxis Consulting
Nina and Margaret share a passion for the art of dialogue and have crisscrossed paths professionally for over twenty years.   They have worked together through the years on various different community projects and have been informally discussing the potential power of discussion to transform lives since they met, in Margaret’s Seminar Process class, at Sonoma State University in 1998. Together, with almost 30 years of teaching and training between them, they offer a unique perspective and workshop practice on how to have high quality social and professional conversations in a digital age.