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!
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.
*PRIVATE EVENT*This event is part of a Facilitation Training series for Christian leaders across the country. Drawing on conflict resolution, mediation, and chaplaincy frameworks, this training teaches interventions and skills that support participants to engage in direct, open conversations across charged divides. The training will focus on learning how to ask questions, give reflections, name…
*PRIVATE EVENT*This event is part of a Facilitation Training series conducted for rabbinical students from multiple rabbinical seminaries across the country. Drawing on conflict resolution, mediation, and chaplaincy frameworks, this facilitation training teaches structures and skills that support participants to engage in direct, open conversations across charged divides. The training will focus on learning how…
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…
Our Stories on Race is a project that creates a safe space where a diverse group of people can learn, grow, and understand by sharing their personal stories, experiences, and perceptions on race.We currently has three chapters and over 400 graduates. In this session, we will :Share the origins and mission of the project.Discuss how…
The nature and tone of every conversation you have comes from somewhere inside the human condition. We believe it comes from two areas; your WORLDVIEW and your SOUL. Your WORLDVIEW is your unique perspective on the world and how things should be, your SOUL is the mind-will-and emotions that shape the delivery of what you…
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…
Are you looking for inspiration with civic education resources/methodology, voter education tools, the search for collaborative partnerships/grants and more? If so, you don’t want to miss this 90-minute session presented by accomplished and engaging members of the Greater Pittsburgh League of Women Voters. They will generously share their successful approach to engaging teachers, students and…
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…
Essential Partners is proud to host this free public dialogue event in collaboration with the 2023 National Week of Dialogue. For more than three decades, Essential Partners has helped people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. Our proven, adaptable, scalable approach, Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD), empowers people to transform the…
In a special training designed for Interfaith Leaders, United Religions Initiative (URI) & the US Values Alliance will conduct a training on how to run a Values Discussion Session for your community. This workshop will be highly interactive and experiential.Values Discussions offer an opportunity for people to sit together in a non controversial, exploratory dialogue…
Feeling caught in the DEI crosswinds? Even as many organizations are still ramping and enhancing programs to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, some business leaders and practitioners are encountering tensions between advocates and detractors of mainstream DEI approaches. This 60-minute panel will explore questions like: What are some of the emerging…
The College National Week of Deliberation CGA college forum series connects college students from across the country to discuss and make choices together about today’s most pressing, wicked issues. As more campuses become ideological bubbles, this initiative hopes to give students a space to talk across geographic and ideological divides to see what common ground…
Duke students will meet for a special NC Student Leadership Forum to talk about “How might we address the inequitable impacts of gun violence and gun policy on communities of color?” The NC Leadership Forum and the Duke Center for Firearms Law are partnering to host a series of student discussions adapting the NCLF model….
Join Braver Angels members, volunteers, staff, and friends for our monthly D.C. happy hour at Mission – Navy Yard! Note that this is an IN-PERSON ONLY event, but anyone able to make it is welcome.
Join Police2Peace for a very special virtual event during the National Week of Conversation 2023.Talk With The Cops™ will feature police leaders and community members grappling with the hard, messy problem of police reform and the police-community relationship. This dialogue will also seek answers, such as: What are we trying to achieve with our police? …
An invitation-only event, National Week Of Conversation – Let’s Talk (Central Nebraska), will gather a neutral, nonviolent, nonpartisan group of people who hold wildly different political agendas, but stand together in their desire to listen and be heard for the purpose of understanding one another and build unity in civility. We will eat together and…
Over a light meal, this small group will practice listening to and understand what each person says in our elections focused topic: “You Don’t Own Me” – what would you like to say to the two party system about elections?This group will meet at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska.Request and invitation. If we…
How can we effectively and efficiently put “talk into action” in order to create positive social change in and across communities? In what ways can people move from talking about shared concerns to taking concrete action steps toward shared visions? And how can organizations ensure that these actions steps and vision emerge from community-driven values,…
As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, one wonders what to anticipate. Will the Coalition hold over time? Will Russia be held accountable for crimes? Can a small country succeed in its passion for independence and quest for democracy? How will peace be achieved? What is the likely future of Ukraine and Russia? What could…
A Safer World for Children: A Fact-Based Approach to Addressing Gun ViolenceJoin us for a conversation based on a commonly held value – our children should be safest in the spaces that are most critical for their development. What is the impact of gun violence when children experience it in schools, communities and homes? Can…
THE FIRST STEP features media personality Van Jones attempting to bring people together to pass a landmark criminal justice bill on prison reform— and finding himself under fire from all sides. The film reveals an intimate portrait of an activist’s isolation and internal struggles, what it takes to make change in a divided nation. Film…
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,…
Who gets to choose how they die? End-of-life decisions are complicated for all involved, no matter the context. Join us for a national, Braver Angels debate on the topic – “Resolved: Die on your own terms.”