In Your Shoes™: Georgetown Student and Faculty Dialogues
How can we meaningfully engage with others who hold different perspectives, backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths? How might we encourage other members of the Georgetown community to engage with each other across silos and divides?
Since 2018, the In Your Shoes (IYS) project, created by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, has employed techniques rooted in theatrical performance to promote deep listening and empathy, bringing participants of diverse backgrounds into mutually respectful creative dialogue. IYS facilitates movement beyond social divides through performance and conversation, uniquely exploring the hopes, fears, and dreams that animate the daily lives of students.
In Your Shoes curricular efforts are supported by and run in collaboration with the Doyle Engaging Difference Program.
Students are invited to register for In Your Shoes courses to develop performance-based techniques for facilitating and engaging in effective dialogues on themes of identity, learning, and engaging difference. The Doyle Program also supports faculty in developing and facilitating In Your Shoes courses or curricular research through Doyle Grants.