• Connecting Your Library Community Through Conversation


    Join Living Room Conversation’s Library Partner, Annie Caplan, presenting for the American Library Association. Community conversations are an important way to connect libraries with the communities they serve. In this webinar, you will learn why it is important for libraries to be hubs for dialogue and strategies for implementing community conversations in all library types…

  • Living Room Conversations: Race + Ethnicity


    Join Living Room Conversations staff, Anaïs + Annie, this Black History Month for a conversation about Race + Ethnicity.We will be hosting a conversation using our Race + Ethnicity Conversation guide. Were conversations about race a part of your upbringing? If so, how was the subject approached? How did the people around you talk about other…

  • Become a certified IF Collaborative Discussion Coach!


    Register now for the Interactivity Foundation’s (IF) annual Collaborative Discussion Coach Summer Training. All trainings are limited to 15 participants to ensure interactive, hands-on engagement. After completing this training, certified collaborative discussion coaches will be able to offer their own certificate programs in classrooms, communities, and workplaces. Coaches are able to award certificates & digital…

  • With Malice Toward None, With Charity for All


    In our polarized and often poisonous politics, it can be challenging to even talk to someone who has different beliefs. Our relationships are strained, loving our neighbor feels impossible and we’ve lost a sense of empathy for each other. Together with Wesley Theological Seminary and the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, the Washington National…

  • 7th Annual MWEG Spring Conference – Rise Up, Rise Above


    MWEG 2024 Annual Spring Conference – “Rise Up, Rise Above: The power of peace to transform our politics and preserve our democracy”  Women have the power to truly transform their communities and our nation to be more peaceful, ethical, and just. Each of us has a part to play in building peace and community —…

  • God Squad: Seeking Higher Ground in the School Wars


    This podcast episode of Village SquareCast will drop on February 9th. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts or at https://podfollow.com/villagesquarecast/view.  In a culturally, religiously and racially diverse society like ours — with a single public school system designed to educate America’s children — maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that the culture wars…