• NWOD Forum #4: Immigration: What Should We Do?


    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…

  • 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…

  • Natl. Week of Deliberation, #1: Youth & Opportunity


    Please join us for the 2023 National Week of Deliberation online deliberative forum using Common Ground for Action (CGA) on Monday, April 17 at 2:00 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…

  • National Week of Deliberation Forum #3: Free Speech


    Please join us for the 2023 National Week of Deliberation online deliberative forum using Common Ground for Action (CGA) on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 8:00 pm ET on “Free Speech: What Kind of Campus Community Do We Want?” The College National Week of Deliberation CGA college forum series connects college students from across the…

  • Taller: Su cerebro en la política


    ¿Qué está pasando en el mundo de la política? ¿Por qué hablar de la política se siente tan a menudo como un tema tabú o peligroso? ¿Cómo podemos volver a los viejos tiempos donde estar en desacuerdo no era algo malo, y aún podíamos ser amigos a pesar de las diferentes opiniones? En este taller,…

  • An Introduction to Meetings of Opposites


    Meetings of Opposites is a curriculum of inquiries into the mechanism that produces perceptual blindness, readings in philosophy and hermeneutics, and activities adapted from Outward Bound. It provides the actual experience of common ground among people with irreconcilable opinions, replacing the mechanism of perception and the Us-Against-Them which perception inevitably produces.