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National Week of Conversation

ActiVote

As we seek to understand the other side it is key to understand the core values and moral foundations that people are using to make their choices. Want to understand your foundations and the foundations that others might use to make their decisions?Try our 6 minute digital Moral Foundations simulation!

Celebrate conversation with Daily Haloha

Daily Haloha

Join us in the Daily Haloha app for a week of uplifting and thought-provoking daily questions that celebrate conversation and our shared humanity.Reflect, share, and hear from others – anonymously and judgment-free. Download the app today for a 2-minute daily dose of humanity. 

Sycamore Creek Church Workshop

Resetting the Table

*PRIVATE EVENT*Sycamore Church in Pickerington, OH will be hosting a Resetting the Table communication skill-building workshop and forum for dialogue across disagreement. Participants will exchange views and personal experiences, surface differences and commonalities, and practice communication skills for addressing differences directly and constructively. The workshop builds community capacity to explore disagreements while strengthening relationships, trust,…

PURPLE Film Screening and Skill-Building

Resetting the Table

This short film from Emmy-Award-winning Transient Pictures and Resetting the Table tells the story of everyday Americans with opposing viewpoints addressing their differences head-on and discovering the concerns and humanity that lie behind each other’s positions. Filmed in a swing region with the greatest concentration of counties that flipped Obama-to-Trump in the 2016 presidential election,…

PURPLE Film Screening and Skill-Building

Resetting the Table

This short film from Emmy-Award-winning Transient Pictures and Resetting the Table tells the story of everyday Americans with opposing viewpoints addressing their differences head-on and discovering the concerns and humanity that lie behind each other’s positions. Filmed in a swing region with the greatest concentration of counties that flipped Obama-to-Trump in the 2016 presidential election,…

Ongoing

A Spring Break for Your Mind

Bay College Civics Corps

Please join Bay College in Michigan in celebrating America’s National Week of Conversation and the International Day of Mastering Conversations that Matter! From April 10th through the 23rd, folks will gather with others to share inspirational and thoughtful ideas by simply using the Daily Haloha app. Other campuses and organizations are encouraged to join in…

LGBT and Faith Dialogue

Parity

Join Holy Dialogues hosts Jeremy Emmert of Converge D.C., Rev. Kim Purl, The Missouri Pastor, and Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen of Parity for a live, interactive discussion of LGBT and faith.You will see and hear from three very different people tackle a topic – LGBT and Christian faith – that is unnecessarily dividing churches, families, and…

Bridging Divides in the Workplace

Business for America

Toxic polarization isn’t only on Twitter. Many companies are witnessing first-hand how contentious social and political issues create workplace conflict and reduce productivity. It’s a bottom-line business issue, and corporate leaders are seeking solutions. How can businesses help repair America’s social fabric — both in and out of the workplace?Join us Tuesday, April 18 at…

PEACE in the Workplace and in Life

Jane Mudgett, Vice Chair of the Peace Harmony Joy Alliance, will introduce the PHJ concepts and tools that can help you live your best life and take relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and community to another level. You’ll learn how to awaken the Peace, Harmony and Joy that exists within you now, and grow it…

Dialogue Across Difference: Targeted Violence

Urban Rural Action

Join us for an interactive Dialogue Across Difference on targeted violence. We’ll 1) share what we’ve learned about targeted violence through the Uniting to Prevent Targeted Violence in South-Central Pennsylvania program, 2) and (re-)introduce the ABCs for Constructive Dialogue.Then we’ll move into small groups to explore different perspectives on causes and effects of targeted violence as…

Reducing Gun Violence Deliberation

The People

Here in the United States, we are experiencing a crisis of violence. Guns are now the leading cause of premature death for American children, teens, and young adults. Preventing death, disability and injury from gun violence requires an approach that involves data collection and surveillance, research to understand which policies and programs are most effective,…

Dialogue Lab 2023: Building Bridges Through Dialogue

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Desmond TutuThe practice of engaging critically and authentically with those you disagree with is an important competency and skill, especially in highly polarized and charged environments. Dialogue is fundamental to building this competency. Not only is it vital for those…

Navigating Conflict in the Workplace

Crossing Party Lines

Americans spend on average about 2.8 hours per week involved in workplace related conflict. Almost 90 percent of us report struggling with it in one form or another.  All of us, leadership and workers alike, are finding that in our increasingly polarized country, workplace conflicts are more difficult to deal with and solve than ever…

Let’s Talk: Is Gen Z Falling Behind in the Economy?

BridgeUSA

Is Gen Z falling behind in the economy? We are inviting students from around the nation to discuss this important, relevant topic with their counterparts on other campuses. Just as our chapters do on colleges across the country, we will create a space to practice disagreement and critical thinking. This will allow them to interact…

Natl. Week of Deliberation, #2: Youth & Opportunity

Please join us for the 2023 National Week of Deliberation online deliberative forum using Common Ground for Action (CGA) on Tuesday, April 18 at 3:00 pm ET on “Youth & Opportunity: What Should We Do For Future Generations to Thrive?” The College National Week of Deliberation CGA college forum series connects college students from across the…

Our Shared Utopia

Let’s build our shared future together. Move for America Fellows are co-hosting an in-person event that will strengthen our bonds with a hands-on activity that is highly relational and conversational — building our shared utopia. Enjoy a meal together before getting to know each other’s vision for the future, and finding common ground. Participants will leave…

Reducing Gun Violence Deliberation

The People

Here in the United States, we are experiencing a crisis of violence. Guns are now the leading cause of premature death for American children, teens, and young adults. Preventing death, disability and injury from gun violence requires an approach that involves data collection and surveillance, research to understand which policies and programs are most effective,…

Dinner at the Square: Collective Illusions w/ Todd Rose

The Village Square

Our current divisions—one American from another—are deep and wide. What if we are profoundly and completely wrong about each other? About this event: Join us for the second dinner in our 2022-23 Dinner at the Square season: Collective Illusions with Dr. Todd Rose WE ARE WRONG ABOUT EACH OTHER. At the core of the deep…

Who’s Laughing Now?

Comedy has arguably been one of the most protected forms of democratic free speech, but in recent years there has been an emergent chorus of voices seeking to limit the freedom of comedic speech. While some have argued that there are jokes a comedian must never tell, or topics that must be placed beyond the…

STAR Voting Hour of Outreach – Alameda County

Equal Vote

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86594543582Join us for our first “Hour of Outreach”! We’ll be spending one hour sending emails to law makers to help spread the word on STAR Voting!You can find the outreach playbook for this event as well as future events here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bh39KLDtfQiMyCSBOmpfW0fZbqxKtFtbeBwdHNROvVY/edit#Equal Vote is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: STAR Voting Hour of Outreach -…

A Golden Rule 1:1 Conversation for Polarized Times

National Institute for Civil Discourse

This session offers an opportunity to dig more deeply into understanding the Golden Rule and what it can mean for your personal and public interactions in today’s polarized environment.   It provides a chance for you to engage with another person to bring the Golden Rule front and center in your life and asks you to…