Essential Partners

Strengthening relationships, deepening belonging, and renewing hope in communities

Essential Partners offers a unique approach to engagement, focusing on the art of listening and sincere dialogue. This technique is used to explore contentious issues, such as renewable energy, and helps individuals develop internal capacities, skills, and confidence to become positive forces in conversations. The company provides training programs, including a four-part curriculum for addressing partisan polarization, to equip people with the tools needed to engage in constructive discussions. By working at the grassroots level, Essential Partners aims to change systems from the beginning, promoting a more inclusive and diverse democracy. Their Reflective Structured Dialogue approach has shown promising results, and their efforts have been recognized through various news articles.