Micro-interactions
The method is for the small moments — in a meeting, a classroom, or a conversation at home — where talk either opens or shuts down.
Be a DORC
Turn controversy into conversation.
Don’t block the hostility. Redirect it. In the small moments — in meetings, classrooms and at home — DORC helps you navigate, and recalibrate.
What you get
A method for the moments that matter.
More than de-escalation. Recalibration.
DORC answers hostility with positivity. Like aikido, you leverage the other person’s energy instead of blocking it — you navigate, and you recalibrate.
Practical examples
Workshops are built around practical examples, in the settings people actually work, teach and study in — and in the ones they are preparing a young person for.
Learn today, apply tomorrow.
The workshop is designed so you can take the method into the next conversation you have — at work, in teaching, at home or on campus.
Take a seat
Take a seat at the table
Professional workshop training for four audiences. Each seat has its own workshop, and its own way into the method.
Corporate teams
Team building, culture and climate — meetings, feedback, conflict and interviewing.
Learn moreEducators
Teaching practice, soft skills, debate, discussion, and how to engage with ideas.
Learn moreParents
Help your child get ready for a future that needs critical thinking and the ability to handle controversy.
Learn moreUniversity students
Critical thinking, handling controversy, and academic success.
Learn moreHow it works
Three rules. Four moves. One goal.
Three rules run through every conversation. Four moves give you a way in. The goal is a real conversation — and a public sphere that can still hold one.
The rules run throughout. The four moves are the shape of the method — the full teaching stays in the workshop, and with the cards.
FOLD
See what’s on the table, before you argue with it.
SAGE
Test what stands behind a claim.
DORC
Shift the conversation, without shutting the other person down.
Stonewall
For the moments when people shut down, deflect or dig in.
One goal
A real conversation — and a public sphere we can still share.
A running theme, across every audience, is truth-seeking: how we read online sources and social media, and how we test what we find there.
Coming soon
Repair and intergenerational conversations
Workshops and materials for conversations that mend, and for talk across generations.
The deck
DORC Cards
A 56-card deck used in the workshops, for talking through difficult topics. The educators’ deck is available now; tailored decks for other audiences are on the way.
- Guide card1
- Framework cards32
- Stonewall cards3
- Topic cards15
- Activity cards5
- The pack56 cards
Card owners: the QR code on the guide card in the pack opens a facilitator guide — how to play each game, a five-minute start, and session plans.
The company
DORC Academy
DORC Academy is built on the DORC model, developed by Ilan Danjoux to help people turn controversy into conversation.
Why this model. It comes from an interest in dialogical learning, collaborative learning, and design thinking: how people learn with one another, and how they can work through a hard question together.
Ilan Danjoux holds a PhD in Politics, is an educator, and is the author of Political Cartoons and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Workshops and the deck
Reserve a workshop
To reserve a workshop — for a corporate team, educators, a group of parents, or university students — or to hear when a tailored deck is ready, write to DORC Academy.
Nothing on this page places an order or takes a payment. Workshop and card prices are not listed here.