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Up to Us Campus Competition

The Up to Us Campus Competition for US college/university students is now accepting applications for the Spring 2022 cohort!This Up to Us competition is a great leadership development opportunity for students to carry out civic engagement initiatives, develop knowledge in fiscal and economic topics, and engage their community in deliberative dialogue on our fiscal future. Students…

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Citizen Assembly

Citizen Assembly invites you to join us in the never-ending, limitless process of REAL deliberative democracy, thanks to the groundbreaking technology Egora, “The Worldwide Stock-Market of Ideas”! Egora-ILP.org With Egora EVERYONE is able to participate in democracy at their own convenience and at their own level of comfort, by… –   developing their own political philosophy…

Introduction to the Empathy Circle Training

Center for Building a Culture of Empathy

Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training:   Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based on Active and Empathic Listening that effectively supports meaningful and constructive dialogue An Empathy Circle increases mutual understanding and connection by ensuring that each person feels…

Introduction to the Empathy Circle Training

Center for Building a Culture of Empathy

Free Introduction and Orientation to Empathy Circle Facilitation Training:   Come learn and practice the Empathy Circle process for addressing challenging topics. An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process based on Active and Empathic Listening that effectively supports meaningful and constructive dialogue An Empathy Circle increases mutual understanding and connection by ensuring that each person feels…

Canvassing at the Soda City Market w/ Better Ballot SC

Join us for canvassing at the Soda City Market in Columbia. We’ll bring the clipboards and pens, you bring the enthusiasm and smiles!We’ll be speaking to market goers about the benefits of instant runoff voting (also known as ranked choice voting). Scripts will be provided.We’ll meet at Cantina 76 at 10am to discuss the script…

Living Room Conversation: Communicating with Care

We may want to communicate with others in such a way that we gain knowledge and bridge divides, but those conversations don’t always come naturally. Most of us struggle to self-evaluate our communication skills and we might be unaware of words and actions that shut down healthy dialogue when discussing divisive issues. In this conversation…

Being Red in a Blue Environment (BA National – Workshops)

This workshop is for political conservatives who are surrounded by liberals in key areas of life like work, family, social circle, religion, or community. The idea for the workshop came from conversations with individuals who said they are looking for safe and effective ways to communicate their conservative values and beliefs in environments where liberal…