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Discover online discussions, debates, and other events that cross partisan divides.
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Braver Angels
About this event
Family relationships are becoming casualties of our toxic political environment. Family members are having nasty political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships.
If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your values and political beliefs, this workshop will offer you:
Insight into why family differences over politics are uniquely challenging;
Recognition of common roles that family members play in political ...
ACC Branch Prep: Building the Grassroots Plan for 2023
American Conservation Coalition
Join Vice President of Grassroots Strategy Stephen Perkins for a special online session. ACC Branches will come together to plan for the new year.
Note: link will not be sent out until the day of the training.
Unify America
Take the Unify Challenge, a guided video conversation that you will take with another American who may vote or think differently than you. It is a small but powerful way for everyday people to heal our national divide.
Consider this your official invitation to step out of your “bubble.” We the People can lead the way.
Collaborative Solutions
On Tuesday, December 13th and 20th at 1 – 2:30 PM Eastern, we will explore “Healing Conversations- Making Difficult Conversations Easy.”
Transform division and contempt into connection and understanding
Using our “7 Ways to Connect,” open the conversation instead of shutting it down.
Experience how to shift from cultural and political polarization to bridging divides and building relationships.
Leave with answers to these 3 questions:
What are the potential benef...
Living Room Conversations
Fight, flight and freeze are classic primal responses to danger and conflict. But these are not our only options. Human relationships benefit from more caring, connective engagement. Good marriages, treasured friendships and healthy communities do better when healthy engagement is the normal response to conflict. Disagreement is a part of human relationships. When we listen to each other with curiosity and care about each other’s needs it is more possible to live together happily – a...
Civic Genius
What does it do, why should you care, and how can you make a difference? We’ll tackle those questions and more in this action-oriented workshop. Whether you’ve got new people representing you in Washington, D.C., or old hands returning for another term, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about how to have an impact on the decisions being made in our nation’s capital.
Introduction to Living Room Conversations
Living Room Conversations
Join us for an interactive introduction to Living Room Conversations, our model, and upcoming programs. This is a great first step to help you understand what we do, meet some of our staff, and decide how to get involved– whether as a host, participant, volunteer, or all of the above. There will be time for Q&A.
Please register via Calendly here by clicking on the highlighted conversation date below and selecting the open time slot. If there are no options to click a date that means that ...
Empathy Café: Share Mediations/Peacebuilding Project
Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
A series of Empathy Cafes for individuals, bridge-building community, and peacemaking organizations seeking to heal a divided world through the power of mutual listening, mediation, empathy and dialogue. Register to join this participatory and experiential Empathy Café to dialogue about: “Sharing conflicts, mediations and peacebuilding challenges you are working on. Or talk about whatever is alive for you.” We will divide into small groups of 4 to 6 and use the Empathy Circle pro...
Depolarizing Conversations About Race and Public Policy
Braver Angels
Depolarizing Conversations About Race is an online 3 hour skills workshop for difficult but necessary conversations between White Americans about race and public policy.
It seeks to improve the culture of conversations about race and provide a constructive alternative to the polarized and judgmental exchanges that dominate our current discourse.
Created by a diverse group of Braver Angels leaders, this workshop helps White participants develop more skills for listening to others and expressing ...
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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