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1:1 Conversation Across Generations
Braver Angels
We are seeking 18-30 year olds to participate in a brand new Braver Angels 1:1 conversation experience: Conversation Across Generations. They will be paired with 61+ year olds, and engage in two structured, one-hour conversations at times of their own choosing. Thus, these conversations will not take place on June 14, but rather any time in the future that works for the two partners.
Read the 1:1 Conversation Across Generations conversation guide, and sign up to participate. If you’d like t...
The Reunited States Film and Talk Back
The Reunited States (film)
NYU has invited alums to view the 2021 documentary The Reunited States and participate in a talk back with NYU Tisch alumnus and director Ben Rekhi.
This powerful and urgent documentary follows the unsung heroes on the difficult journey of bridging our political and racial divides. Each of these bridge-builders have realized that while our divides run deeper than they ever could have imagined, so does the love and hope to bring our country back together.
Finding Common Ground Turning Racism & Extremism Into Hope & Healing
Common Ground Committee
Join Common Ground Committee and sponsoring partner Bridge Alliance for a special virtual event to kick off the National Week of Conversation 2021. Our guest Daryl Davis, an award-winning Black musician, race reconciliator and renowned lecturer, has used the power of human connection to convince hundreds of people to leave white supremacist groups. Fellow guest Ryan Lo’Ree, a former white supremacist and extremist, is an interventionist working to deradicalize people who have been lured into e...
Root Causes: How Did We Get Here?
FixUS
The growing divisions and distrust in our nation has led us to a dangerous point for our democracy. To put our country on a better course necessitates understanding how we got here in the first place. FixUS is hosting several small discussion groups throughout the National Week of Conversation on June 14, 16, and 17th where participants will engage with one another on what they view as the top underlying political, cultural, economic, and technological reasons for our current environment. Groups...
Listening with Empathy and Humility Across Differences
National Institute for Civil Discourse
This Interactive session shares tips from everyday Americans around listening across differences to build understanding and bridge divides.
We are a boisterous, diverse country of over 300 million people. We’ve never seen eye-to-eye on everything, but in the past we found space to collaborate and compromise. This session is a direct response to appeals from Americans from across the nation and political spectrum who are alarmed by the bitter divisions in our country.
In Listening with Empathy...
Resetting the Table
Please join us for a virtual screening and interactive discussion of the new short film: PURPLE, America, We Need To Talk.
Created by political mediation organization Resetting the Table in partnership with Emmy award-winning Transient Pictures, PURPLE tells the story of Americans with opposing viewpoints addressing their differences head-on and discovering the concerns and humanity that lie behind each other’s positions. Filmed in rural Wisconsin and Iowa, PURPLE is an uplifting and humanizin...
America Talks: Conversations to Shift from Division to Understanding
National Conference on Citizenship
On Wednesday, June 16th at 2pm ET – we’re excited to be joined by experts from America Talks and the #ListenFirst Coalition to lead this event. For this NCoC Learning Circle, our speakers will:
Detail America Talks and common themes
Highlight key strategies for facilitating constructive dialogue across differences
Share resources and experiences from the frontlines of the bridge-building movement
Better Arguments Project
Join us for a one-hour introduction to the Better Arguments Project. Together, we will reflect on the role of arguments in a healthy democracy and we will introduce the 3 dimensions and 5 Principles of a Better Argument. If you are new to the Better Arguments Project, this session is a perfect way to get started.
DIVIDED WE FALL: How Business Can Depolarize the US • Part 3, Changing Incentives
Business for America
Deepening divisions in the US, both politically and culturally, pose a threat to our democracy. The issue goes beyond a move to the right for Republicans or to the left among Democrats, as extremism has marginalized long-standing moderate political beliefs in both camps, and bipartisanship has been vilified. Our political system’s polarization and dysfunction harm our business environment and workplace culture.
The Niskanen Center and Business for America designed this four-part webinar serie...
Bridging Divides through National Service
Service Year Alliance
The next generation of Americans are eager to be part of the solution to the many complex challenges currently facing our country. They’re taking to the streets to protest racial injustice, using their voices to demand action on climate change, and raising their hands to help their fellow citizens and neighbors through the pandemic. They believe in America and are already invested in fighting for a better future for our country and the world.
National service has a long history of bridging d...
Addressing Toxic Polarization: Bridging Methods that Work
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
Learn the What’s, Why’s, and How’s of bringing Americans together to build trust and solve problems in a moment of toxic polarization. The conversation will explore the similarities and differences of the approaches of each organization, as well as their opportunities and limitations for addressing America’s painful divisions. This in-depth discussion about bridging, polarization, and collaborative dialogue will be led by National Week of Conversation partners, and national e...
What you don’t know about me! Exploring Political Stereotypes
Crossing Party Lines
One of our members recently reached out to us with this suggestion for a topic:
“How about a session where everyone submits their stereotype references for various political groups, we put them in a hat, and draw them out at random having anyone who self-identifies as the group explain why they accept or reject each as valid?”
We tried it, and liked it so much that we’re doing it again, this time for the National Week of Conversation.
Come prepared with at least one or two ster...
Training: Conversations Across Differences
YOUnify
Be part of the mission to heal America by bridging divides! Join us for a National Week of Conversation event where you can learn behavioral science based skills for having conversations across surface differences. You can use these skills to reconnect with your friends, family, neighbors — or even perfect strangers. Includes actual conversations!
Redefining Freedom and Democracy: A Civic Season Conversation
Made By Us
Join the host of the popular Clubhouse room History Club, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History “Made By Us” project to continue the conversation on what a Civic Season between could do to spark historical inquiry and civic action – and dig deep into the past and present of what freedom means to us all. Who defines freedom? How have groups claimed it for themselves over time? And what actions can we take that shape the future of our democracy, with “liberty and ...
From Dialogue to Systemic Change
Search for Common Ground
Dialogue can bridge divides and decrease polarization—but can it lead to systemic change? Search for Common Ground has a 40-year track record of working on the world’s most challenging conflicts and translating dialogue into collective action and enduring change. Join us on June 18th, 12pm ET to hear personal insights about how to start with bridge-building and end with a transformed society.
Host a Living Room Conversation
Living Room Conversations
Do you have friends, relatives, neighbors, students, or faith community members who you want to find a way to connect with? Living Room Conversations offers “do-it-yourself” guides to help you have meaningful, friendly and even joyful online discussions! Host your own online Living Room Conversation following their seven simple steps.
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