The goal of this dialogue is to allow people to talk from their personal experience, rather than argue in favor of their positions. This model has the goal of helping fighting groups to find common ground. First, a steering committee consisting of representatives of the two sides meets to discuss possible common issues and prepare for a dialogue workshop. Next, a few volunteers are trained by someone from CGN to be small-group facilitators. The workshop itself takes a whole day.
Participants meet in a large group and introduce themselves and their positions on the issue.
After that, participants talk about their personal experience with the issue in small groups. They take true or false test on their beliefs and then try to answer the same questions from the position of the opponent. This helps to identify similarities, differences and misperceptions of the parties about each other. This model brings together two churches to discuss issues of mutual concern. This is a real life situation of moderate and conservative students of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, living together in one dormitory and managing successfully their disagreements.