Podcasts about living room conversations

Becca Kearl had just moved to a new town when she decided to organize a public conversation about one of the most controversial topics: sex education. No formal training. No guarantees. Just a desire to understand her community better. What started as an ambitious idea turned into a surprising and powerful night of connection between people with deeply different beliefs. In this episode of Uncomfy, host Julie Rose talks with Becca about how that first event sparked her career in community dialogue, what makes conversations go well (or fall apart), and why your story is always more powerful than your opinion. Becca is now the executive director of Living Room Conversations, which provides free resources to help people host meaningful discussions across divides. Learn more at https://www.livingroomconversations.org. Got an Uncomfy story to share? We'd love to hear from you: uncomfy@byu.edu. Episode transcript - https://uncomfypodcastbyu.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-to-have-conversations-that-actually.html CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Meet Becca Kearl: The Power of Community Conversations 01:05 The First Big Conversation: Tackling Sex Education 03:25 Creating a Safe Space for Dialogue 07:25 The Impact of Personal Stories 09:48 Living Room Conversations: Tools and Framework 15:54 Encouragement and Resources for Starting Your Own Conversations 16:41 Conclusion and Next Steps

On the radio show this week, we cover how Musk, Trump, and Republican leadership actions are causing chaos and undermining our economy; we dive into what's at stake in immigration policy; hear about a program to build community and democracy; and find out how education is under attack along with hear ways to push back.    SPECIAL GUESTS: Derrick Johnson, NAACP, @NAACP; Beatriz Lopez, Immigration Hub, @USImmHub, @usimmhub.bsky.social; Joan Blades, Living Room Conversations, MomsRising, MoveOn, @LivingRoomConvo, @MoveOn,; Beatriz Beckford, MomsRising, @MomsRising, @momsrising.org.

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In this podcast episode, we bring on the founder of Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades. Make sure to check them out here: https://livingroomconversations.org/. We speak about the value of conversations when discussing political topics, the importance of building trust in elections, and how we do it.

In this podcast episode, we bring on the founder of Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades. Make sure to check them out here: https://livingroomconversations.org/. We speak about the value of conversations when discussing political topics, the importance of building trust in elections, and how we do it.

Did you know that the first Native American to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grew up on a Navajo reservation in Arizona and faced tremendous challenges on her journey to higher education? Her story will inspire you. Discover how she is promoting indigenous knowledge and cultural inclusivity in education at a national level to make a difference.   The National Endowment for the Humanities has a bold new vision focused on expanding its reach and funding organizations it hasn't supported in the past. This drive towards Native American education comes at a pivotal moment. With new grant programs tailored for smaller groups and key partnerships, the NEH seeks to elevate overlooked stories and communities.   My special guests are:   Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado, Arizona. From 2015 to 2022 she served as a member of the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory body to NEH, an appointment she received from President Obama. Lowe's career in higher education has included roles as Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, Assistant Dean in the Yale College Dean's Office, and Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University.   Shawn Reese, Executive Director of Wyoming Humanities, with a deep-rooted commitment to promoting cultural diversity and inclusivity in education. Shawn's passion for the organization's mission is palpable. His dedication to fostering the significance of integrating indigenous perspectives into educational curricula, shedding light on the transformative impact it can have on students and the broader community.   In this episode, you will be able to:  Explore the transformative impact of Native American experiences in education, gaining valuable insights into cultural diversity and inclusion.   Discover the profound influence of storytelling on community building, unlocking the power of oral tradition and indigenous wisdom.   Uncover the pivotal role of humanities in fostering empathy and understanding in diverse communities.   Engage in enhancing civil discourse through living room conversations, cultivating respectful dialogue and meaningful connections.   Embrace the significance of promoting indigenous knowledge in education cultural awareness in curriculum.    Uncover the role of Humanities Uncovering the vital role of humanities in promoting indigenous knowledge highlights the importance of incorporating diverse voices and narratives in educational curricula.  Understanding the role of humanities in fostering cultural understanding and awareness can lead to more informed and empathetic educational practices.  By uncovering the role of humanities in promoting diversity, educational policymakers can work towards creating a more equitable and culturally responsive education system.   The resources mentioned in this episode are:  Visit Thinkwy.org to learn more about Wyoming Humanities and their initiatives such as Native Narratives   Subscribe to the What's Your Why and Winds of Change podcasts to stay updated on the storytelling importance of people, places and history.   Explore the Living Room Conversations to learn about facilitating civil conversations and discussions on challenging topics.   Consider participating in the United We Stand program to combat hate-motivated violence and promote understanding and openness in communities.    Follow Us On These Channels: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emydigrappa/ www.ThinkWY.org https://www.facebook.com/storiesaboutwhy https://www.instagram.com/storiesaboutwhy Listen on all your favorite platforms and subscribe! As always leave a review if you enjoyed these stories and follow us on Instagram or visit the webpage of the Wyoming Humanities!

Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, women leaders and their allies have sought to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to drive total equality and justice for women into the U.S. Constitution. It did pass in 1972, but fell three states short of ratification. Today's next wave of the women's movement might finally make the ERA a reality. Why is Constitutional protection so crucial? Join leading advocates Joan Blades (MomsRising co-founder), attorney Kimberle Crenshaw and Jessica Neuwirth (ERA Coalition President) to learn the true story of what's at stake and how life would be different and better for women and men. To learn more about Kimberle Crenshaw's work, visit the African American Policy Forum.  You can follow Joan Blades work at MomsRising, and Living Room Conversations. Follow the progress Jessica Neuwirth and others are making with the ERA Coalition. See related media in our Green New Deal Media Collection. This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

When we first started our podcast in the spring of 2015, Jim and Richard came from different political tribes. They still do. But during more than 400 shows they've deepened their friendship and learned a tremendous amount from each other, and our remarkable guests.While "How Do We Fix It?" podcast will continue its journey, Jim and Richard's nine years as co-hosts ends with this show. We discuss why the partnership is ending (spoiler alert: it's amicable!) and what they discovered about podcasting, politics, and how to navigate divisions at a time of rigid, painful divides."I feel like when we started, we were a couple of voices in the wilderness, searching for more open-minded conversations, looking for people willing to grapple with facts and ideas that don't fit their comfortable world views," says Jim."One of our last-minute decisions in those early days was to add a question mark to our title," says Richard. "I'm so glad we decided to do that, because fixing the current political mess starts with better listening and more challenging questions."In the years since we started our voices have grown into a movement. Some call it the bridging space with organizations such as Braver Angels, Heterodox Academy, Living Room Conversations, Listen First, Solutions Journalism Network, Common Ground Committee and many more. Media have also changed with the huge growth of podcasting, Substack, and new news sites such as The Free Press. We've enjoyed hearing from a remarkable range of guests. Among the most successful and persuasive experts are humble about their own opinions and accomplishments. They've been open-minded and curious about the views of those who sharply, and sometimes dismissively, disagreed with them. Standout examples include scientist Alina Chan, journalist and author Jonathan Rausch, writer and podcast host Yascha Mounk, and Moni Guzman of Braver Angels. In this episode Richard and Jim get personal and a bit emotional about where they've changed their minds and personally learned from each other. Please listen!Follow How Do We Fix It? on Facebook and Twitter X. Jim is a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute. Follow him here on Twitter. He writes for City Journal and Commentary. Richard co-hosts "Let's Find Common Ground" podcast with Ashley Milne-Tyte. He's on Facebook and his Twitter handle is daviesnow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Exploring the theme of peacemaking through the lens of the Book of Mormon, hosts Jennifer and Patrick are joined by the Executive Director of Living Room Conversations, Becca Kearl, and delve into the story of Zeniff from Mosiah 9. Starting with a mission of aggression, Zeniff's preconceived notions about the Lamanites and Nephites are challenged as he confronts the complexities of the situation. The episode discusses the power of narratives in shaping our perceptions and the importance of reevaluating our ingrained stories to cultivate peace.[00:01:41] The power of narratives.[00:05:57] Defining peace as a process.[00:09:27] The power of dialogue.[00:12:30] Curiosity and dialogue in conflicts.[00:15:30] Curiosity and sincere interactions.[00:19:36] Human beings as storytelling creatures.[00:25:25] National narratives and cultural impact.[00:27:42] Empathy through shared narratives.[00:32:35] Empathy and understanding in dialogue.[00:34:20] Dialogue and shared values.[00:39:33] Sharing personal experiences to connect.[00:42:21] Dialogue and building together.[00:45:22] Living doctrine through culture.[00:51:18] Finding peace in daily life.[00:52:28] Restored gospel conversations.For full show notes and transcript, visit https://www.mormonwomenforethicalgovernment.org/proclaim-peaceRegister to attend our free live podcast recording in Salt Lake City on June 26th at https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MjEwNDIz

On the radio show this week we dive into a new study about how people can (and can't) get access to paid family/medical leave in every state – and how to get national coverage; we hear an update about the fight for a care infrastructure and why it matters to everyone; we tackle the importance of conversation to combat loneliness and to save our democracy; and we cover a powerful deliver of stories to every single member of Congress and how your experiences can build change.   *Special guests include: Sharita Gruberg, National Partnership for Women & Families, @npwf; Josephine Kalipeni, Family Values at Work, @FmlyValuesWork; Joan Blades, Living Room Conversations, @LivingRoomConvo; and Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising

Recognizing the need for women to find their voices and claim their power, Marilyn Nyborg began in the early ‘80's to work through women's circles and activities to bring feminine wisdom to bear on the world. In 2002 she became a co-founder of Gather the Women. Marilyn brought GTW home and created Gather the Women of Nevada County. In 2016 she co-founded Indivisible Women of Nevada County. and co-led Living Room Conversations for 3 years. She is the author of Woman's Guide to Sacred Activism. Currently exploring the ancestral woundings carried in women from the burning times and the conditioning we have carried into the 21st century. Marilyn does presentations around the country focused on the major loss throughout civilization at the repression and degradation of women's wisdom and contributions. SUPPORT: To purchase a copy of A Woman's Guide to Sacred Activism visit Amazon. FOLLOW: You can find Marilyn online at Facebook and the Sacred Feminine Network Facebook group. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegirlfriendgod/message

Purple Political BreakdownHow do we build trust in Elections?In this podcast episode, we bring on the founder of Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades. Make sure to check them out here: https://livingroomconversations.org/. We speak about the value of conversations when discussing political topics, the importance of building trust in elections, and how we do it. All our Content & Information is Here: www.purplepoliticalbreakdown.comIf you want to support the show follow this link: https://purple-political-breakdown.captivate.fm/supportIf you want to get in contact with the show: TheTrendgoldandfaith@gmail.comJoin Podpage: https://www.podpage.com/?via=radellCheck out Blind Knowledge: https://www.blindknowledge.com/Check out the PodNation TV Live Broadcast: https://player.frontlayer.com/live/fl427618If you want to Follow PodNation Here: https://linktr.ee/podnationpodsThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

An interview with Nealin Parker, Executive Director of Common Ground USA, exploring the range of like-minded organizations contributing to depolarization (including over 6,700 such organizations in the US alone).Nealin explores the different approaches such organizations take and provides guidance on how to find collaborators, assess  their quality and best engage with them.She also explores the  role of neighborhoods, society building and more.Organization referenced in episode (in order of appearance): • Living Room Conversations (www.livingroomconversations.org)• Preemptive Love Coalition (Love Anyway Feasts) (www.preemptivelove.org/feast-templates)• Braver Angels (www.braverangels.org)• Listen First Coalition (www.listenfirstproject.org/listen-first-coalition)• Telos (www.telosgroup.org)• Make America Dinner (www.makeamericadinneragain.com)• The People's Supper (www.thepeoplessupper.org)• Resetting the Table (www.resettingthetable.org)• Bridge USA (www.bridgeusa.org)• Campus Conversation (www.aascu.org/resources/campus-conversations-toolkit)• Sustained Dialog (www.sustaineddialogue.org)• Solia (www.solia.net)• American Exchange Project (www.americanexchangeproject.org)• Shoulder to Shoulder (www.shouldertoshouldercampaign.org)• Telos (www.telosgroup.org)• Interfaith America (www.interfaithamerica.org)• Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org)• One America Movement (www.oneamericamovement.org)• City Year (www.cityyear.org)• AmeriCorps (www.americorps.gov)• Red Cross (www.redcross.org)• United Way (www.unitedway.org)• All Sides (www.allsides.com)• The Flip Side (www.theflipside.io)CONTENTS0:00 Introduction3:45 Mapping Depolarization11:21 Flavors of Depolarization17:50 Cooking as Unifier22:37 Interfaith Dialog25:17 Service as Unifier28:08 Finding Collaborators30:11 Assessing Quality33:41 The Role of Neighborhood38:55 Society Building48:21Engaging with the Like-Minded51:37 Closing Thoughts

On the radio show this week we dive into a new study about how people can (and can't) get access to paid family/medical leave in every state – and how to get national coverage; we hear an update about the fight for a care infrastructure and why it matters to everyone; we tackle the importance of conversation to combat loneliness and to save our democracy; and we cover a powerful deliver of stories to every single member of Congress and how your experiences can build change.   *Special guests include: Sharita Gruberg, National Partnership for Women & Families, @npwf; Josephine Kalipeni, Family Values at Work, @FmlyValuesWork; Joan Blades, Living Room Conversations, @LivingRoomConvo; and Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising

Welcome to the Living Room Conversations by LIVEsciences! Our guest, Marwa Farouq is a leadership Coach & Strategic Advisor on transformation, culture and DE&I. Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and Certified Executive Coach (CEC) ICF Professional Certified Coach(PCC). We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Welcome to the Living Room Conversations by LIVEsciences! Our guest, Joost Schouten is the Co-founder of Nestr.io, he has for more than 2 decades been working to help people do work they care about. Initially by supporting people to better assess & utilise their passions/skills through self-organisation. Now primarily focussing on the systemic power shift needed in our organisations to make them purpose driven. He, in different capacities, work on upgrading our legal, capital & incentive structures and decision making processes so that people and organisations can create the impact they desire effectively and at scale. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Welcome to the Living Room Conversations by LIVEsciences!Our guest, Ozlem Brooke Erol, founder and CEO of Purposeful Business Inc., 20+ Years In Purpose Work. Help professionals who want to find work that is not only about a paycheck. Work with leaders who care about having a positive impact as much as making profit.We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world.Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world.To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work.Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Welcome to the Living Room Conversations by LIVEsciences! Our guest, James Priest, is the co-founder and learning facilitator at Sociocracy 3.0 Academy. He currently spends most of his time helping people to get the best out of S3. Besides development and delivery of courses and learning journeys, he works directly with people in organizations across many sectors to help them improve productivity and engagement, increase business agility and grow resilient learning organizations where people and company thrive. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Imagine a world where a simple circle can create a profound sense of belonging, shift confrontational conversations to collaborative explorations, and emphasize connection and inclusion. That world exists today in Peace Circles. Because of the work of Black Women for Positive Change, and other groups such as the Listen First Coalition, Braver Angels and Living Room Conversations, dialogue circles are happening across our nation and around the world. Enjoy “Co-creating Peace in Circles”, Episode #125 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today, I'm visiting with Renata Valree and Kim Best from Black Women for Positive Change to talk about Peace Circles – an initiative focused on youth to give them opportunities to come together in a safe environment to share their experiences and feelings about this troubled world they've inherited. Highlights you won‘t want to miss include:Confidentiality and non-judgmentalism promote safety when we speak about what's important to us More than ever, today's Youth need empowerment A primary responsibility of every adult is to teach children how to be by modeling that for themRenata Valree is an Assoc. Professor at CA State University Dominguez Hills where she teaches in the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peace-building graduate studies program. Renata has a Masters in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. She serves as E.D. of the Peace in Education Community Mediation Center, is a member of the leadership team for the Assoc. for Conflict Resolution, and is the former Dir. of the Office of the LA City Attorney's Dispute Resolution Program. Kimberly Best, RN, MA, is a Civil Mediator, Family Mediator & owner of Best Conflict Solutions, LLC, specializing in mediation and conflict resolution. She is President/Chair of the TN Assoc. of Professional Mediators and a volunteer Senior Mediator with the LA City Attorney's office Community Police Unification Program. Kim is also a facilitator, restorative practices practitioner, trainer in dispute resolution processes, and a member of Mediators Beyond Borders, Int. Kim is committed to advancing dispute resolution practices for improving communication and finding optimal solutions for all parties.Join the 12th annual Month of Non-Violence initiative during October. Visit blackwomenforpositivechange.org and click the Month of Non-violence tab to learn more and be a part of this wonderful experience! Sign-Up: https://monthofnonviolence.org/2023-month-of-non-violence-sign-up/Contact Renata Valree at: rvalree@csudh.edu Contact Kim Best at: Kim@bestconflictsolutions.comPlease support Co-creating Peace: Subscribe to Co-creating Peace on your favorite podcast provider Send me your ideas for topics and guests or be a guest to talk about your communication or conflict resolution challenges and receive free communication coaching Share on social media & tell the world about Co-creating Peace! Become a patron at www.patreon.com/CocreatingPeace Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

Welcome to the Living Room Conversations by LIVEsciences! Our guest, Patrycja Riera, is a doctoral candidate at the IE Business School in Madrid, and hold a Master degree in Research & a Master degree in Economics and Business Administration. Her research work focuses on inclusive leadership and how leaders navigate the sense of inclusion while maintaining their core beliefs, values and norms. She is an EMCC (Senior Practitioner) and ICF accredited coach and have worked for many years supporting senior leaders to create strategic and behavior shifts in their organizations, leadership and teams. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learning, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Our guest, Erin Schrode is an activist and social entrepreneur. This leading voice on sustainability, social justice and millennials recently ran an unprecedented campaign for US Congress in California. Since co-founding Turning Green in 2005, she's developed eco-education and action platforms for millions of students and beyond. Erin speaks and consults internationally, contributes to ABC, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Refinery29, and is featured in The New York Times, Today Show, Vanity Fair, CNN, FOX, Seventeen, Forbes, more. After Hurricane Maria, Erin led #ChefsForPuertoRico as COO to serve 3.7+ million meals, for which founder Chef José Andrés was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, then investing in local, sustainable agriculture and food systems islandwide. She is now driving her non-profit's Conscious Kitchen program to transform school food supply chains, source and serve over 20 million organic, nutritious meals to students and vulnerable populations near her home in the Bay Area. Erin proudly serves on the Board of Directors for the Captain Planet Foundation and Zioness and advisory boards of Kiss the Ground, IsraAID, Conservation Lands Trust, Birthright and others. This bold innovator and community organizer champions civic leadership, conscious living, and environmental stewardship on a lifelong journey to inspire and mobilize people to discover and activate passion for social impact and policy change. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Welcome to the LIVEforward Institute Living Room Conversations!Our guest, Patrick Fransen: "I am Patrick and for 35 years I specialised myself in not being myself, which was quite a painful experience. This resulted in, among others, a national windsurf championship, an engineering degree, building a management consulting company and selling it for a multi-million amount to a large multinational. Despite these perceived successes I remained burdened with an unfulfilled, empty feeling. The insight that I was pursuing an outside illusion instead of the higher purpose that is running through me, made me shift radically to a conscious, purpose driven mission to create a business world where everyone can be 100% themselves, where entrepreneurs create massive positive impact on society without sacrificing on their personal life nor on company profitability. At www.Pebblewave.be we are creating an ecosystem of companies where the leaders have heartfelt chosen to go this path. If you are an entrepreneur and want to know how you can realise your purpose this way, connect and we'll figure it out together."We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work.Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Our guest, is a people and organizational transformation expert. He is also the US partner of Ricardo Semler for Semco Style Institute USA. On top of that, he is also an Associate Professor at the California State University in Fresno. His mission is to help organizations develop human-centered workplace environments, leading to world-class performance, deeply rooted motivation and uncompromising commitment to employee and customer satisfaction. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Tom Nixon, 20 years experience of the rollercoaster ride of being a founder. He has been involved in start-ups, growth, pivoting, turnarounds and even closing. He is now focus on research and support for other founders as well as my his start-up, Maptio. His approach is a mix of coaching, personal transformation, and practical support. His book - Work with Source: Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money was published in March 2021: https://workwithsource.com His startup, Maptio is an online software product for organisations operating without traditional management structures. Maptio helps you track and visualise who's responsible for what and how the big vision breaks down into the smaller ideas that support it. Fanny Norlin, is passionate about making the world become more alive. The past ten years she have lived and breathed decentralized initiatives, networks and communities. Her professional experiences range from founding two NGO's, consulting within agile strategy and governance, facilitating leadership trainings, organising several large participatory events, building Sweden's feminine leadership movement and leading the marketing and tech team at Footway. Some years ago she was introduced to the work of Lovisa Alsen and had a deep awakening into my body and the feminine. Her experience of the potential that lies within fully unleashing the feminine and masculine in a creative dance underlies my approach to business and leadership. She coaches and consults leaders within masculine and feminine leadership, agile organizing and how to attract people and resources in the attention economy of the network age . Her specialties include: Feminine leadership, strategy, grasping complexity, scaling ideas and systems thinking, Peer-2-Peer marketing, online communication, navigating the attention economy, transformational events, self-organization, agile leadership, crowdsourcing, emotional intelligence, project management and creating trust in teams. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Our guest is the Chief of Staff at Appfire and an executive-level strategist and CEO advisor, working with companies at the 100M+ revenue range. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and showrunner of The Backpack Show. He is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books and counting. He's currently working on his eleventh. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA. He's founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Also, the founder and president of the Global Compassion Coalition. He is the author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009), Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013), Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009), Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness (Harmony Books 2018), NeuroDharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness (Harmony Books 2020), Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connections, and Fostering Love (Harmony Books 2023) and Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009)Interview Date: 4/10/2023 Tags: Rick Hanson, listening, dialogue, disagreement, conflict, values, lying, Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades, arguing, no-win dialogues, progressives, compassion, kindness, bridging differences, gun violence, self-righteousness, argumentative, persuading, persuade, vote, voting, Global Compassion, Coalition, Stone Age conditions of humanity, Relationships, Psychology, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics

Our guest, Dr. Taryn Marie Steiskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is the #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and well-being in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health through the concepts of resilience.She is recognized as a leading global authority on resilience, wellbeing, and mental health, as well as employee engagement, change leadership, and women in leadership. Her work has been featured by Fox, NBC News, Worldwide Business and Modern Living with Kathy Ireland, Bloomberg Business, Thrive Global, TEDx, and Forbes. LA Progressive calls her "the go-to person" and "a secret weapon" for people who want to find and maintain their edge aS well as rise above the competition.We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world.Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world.To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work.Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

Our guest, Doug Kirkpatrick is an organizational change consultant, TED speaker, executive coach, author, and educator. He recently released his third book, The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work, an Amazon bestseller with Forbes Books, and is Founder and CEO of D'Artagnan Advisors, helping companies embrace the future of work. We have seen the catalytic power of conversations in the work that we do, as well as the impact that it brings to our world. Our Living Room is a space for us to connect, to explore thoughts and learnings, in a relaxed and very human way. Through this channel, we look forward to an engaging dialogue and resonance with our guests, and bring a breath of fresh air to the space we occupy in this virtual world. To our listeners and followers, we hope to create an opportunity to candidly eavesdrop and chime in to one of the many interesting conversations around the space of teal, agile and the future of work. Stay tuned for our next Living Room Conversations.

The intensifying political division and violence in our country is concerning — but it's not unique. And few know that better than Tim Phillips. For 30 years, his organization Beyond Conflict has been bringing people from opposing sides of violent divides together to find common ground. He shares insights from their research into human psychology that could hold keys for overcoming violent division, along with lessons from Northern Ireland, South Africa and beyond to help us fight polarization here at home.    SHOW ACTIONS Internally Reflect - Try the 90-Second Rule  Think about a time when you strongly disagreed with someone about a political or ideological issue, and notice where you felt that tension or frustration in your body. The next time you're in that situation: try the 90 second rule — created by Harvard researcher Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who found it takes 90 seconds for an emotion to pass. Before engaging in a debate or discussion that gets your blood boiling, take 90 seconds to do absolutely nothing: wait to exchange words, step away from your phone — whatever it takes to give you that minute and a half of simply not-that-debate. Become More Informed - Learn about polarization  Check out this video from Tim's organization, Beyond Conflict about polarization and misperceptions between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. And if you want to dig deeper, read their two reports on the issue: America's Divided Mind: Understanding the Psychology That Drives Us Apart and Renewing American Democracy: Navigating a Changing Nation. Tim also recommends listening to this interview with South African leaders about how the U.S. can move beyond toxic polarization.  Publicly Participate - Invest in building real relationships  Move conversations offline and invest in building real relationships with people across the aisle in your community. Try engaging with organizations setting up opportunities for Americans to come together, and navigate our divides at the local level, such as One America Movement, Civic Genius, Make America Dinner Again, and Living Room Conversations.   SHOW NOTES Read Tim's article about what neuroscience can teach us about gun culture in America.  Find How To Citizen on Instagram or visit howtocitizen.com to join our mailing list and find ways to citizen besides listening to this podcast!  Please show your support for the show by reviewing and rating. It makes a huge difference with the algorithmic overlords and helps others like you find the show! How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He's also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet.    CREDITS How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Rowhome Productions. Our Executive Producers are Baratunde Thurston and Elizabeth Stewart. Allie Graham is our Lead Producer and Danya AbdelHameid is our Associate Producer. Alex Lewis is our Managing Producer. John Myers is our Executive Editor. Original Music by Andrew Eapen and Blue Dot Sessions. Our Audience Engagement Fellows are Jasmine Lewis and Gabby Rodriguez. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio and Layla Bina. Additional thanks to our citizen voices Andrea B., Debra, Ina P., Mary P., Damon W., and Allison M.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to “Speaking of Listening.....”, Episode #112 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication & conflict transformation.The last couple of episodes of this podcast have been about listening. I'm continuing that in this episode as a lead-up to two important and related upcoming events: • Finding the Way Out Challenge  is an invitation to look deeply but kindly within yourself by completing a 4-week Challenge of daily five-minute tasks, and to work with others to fight the toxic division that's tearing our country apart. (IMPORTANT: Register at https://findingthewayout.startswith.us by March 20 to fully participate) This is the perfect opportunity to prepare you to join thousands of Americans during the National Week of Conversation in April. Learn more & register at: https://findingthewayout.startswith.us. • National Week of Conversation – April 17-23, 2023 – To learn more about this annual event and how you can participate, visit: https://conversation.usThere is an unmet need that many of us experience. You've heard me speak about it before. It is the need to feel heard, to be acknowledged for who we are and how we perceive the world – without being judged or condemned simply because we are who we are and believe what we believe. In the world we live in today with all the uncertainty, fear and conflict, it's getting more and more difficult to get that need met.Fortunately, there are organizations out there who are dedicated to helping people learn to hear one another without judgement and condemnation. One of those – Living Room Conversations is an organization that helps people to have safe, peaceful, comfortable conversations about the kinds of issues that we find disagreement about, that we feel a great deal of passion about.This week, I'm replaying Episode #89 – “Living Room Conversations: Connecting Across Divides” my interview with Annie Caplan from Living Room Conversations to remind you of the insights and tools she shared with us to help you get ready for the Finding the Way Out Challenge & the National Week of Conversation.Highlights of our conversation include: dialogue ≠ debateunderstanding doesn't require agreementthe value of listening to learn & understandhow suspending judgement can help us gain new insightsYou can access all the Living Room Conversations resources here: https://livingroomconversations.org/and access their Conversation Agreementsat: https://livingroomconversations.org/conversation_agreements Contact Annie Caplan directly at: annie@livingroomconversations.orgContact Kathleen Oweegon at: oweegon@bridgesofpeace.com to share your ideas and feedback for this show. You can receive a free 30-minute communication coaching session by being a guest on Co-creating Peace to talk about your communication challenges and receive Kathleen's suggestions on the air. Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

Learn more about the power of dialogue in “Uniting Fractured Communities Through Dialogue, Part 2 – Discovering Deeper Connections With Dialogue”.Recently, I was interviewed by Duncan for The Omni-Win Project podcast. We discussed topics related to with dialogue & exploring ways that we can see past our differences – in fact, embrace them – to nurture democracy, co-create peace & co-create a world where different ways of being & different perspectives are embraced, celebrated, and utilized to co-create better tomorrows than our yesterdays have been.The Omni-Win Project podcast is 1 hour long, so I am airing this conversation in 2 parts over two podcast episodes. Last week, in Part 1, Duncan & I discussed facilitated dialogues between law enforcement & various community members, including activists. Today, in Part 2, we discuss other, more informal types of dialogue & the importance of learning another person's truths, and the wisdom, insights & shared humanity that often can only be discovered when we look beneath the surface.Positive paradigm shifts happen when we expand our awareness, explore new understandings & embrace the glorious diversity of humanity. All this can happen through dialogue. This, my friends, is your invitation to join in the conversation.If you'd like to learn more about dialogue, participate in dialogue events, or host a dialogue in your home, here are a few great resources for that:The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is a network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide & take action together on today's toughest issues.  For more information, go to www.NCDD.org. & listen to Episode #66 of this podcast where I interview Courtney Breese, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.Living Room Conversations. Living Room Conversations works to heal society by connecting people across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more – through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities.  You can utilize the many structured topic guides, or create your own. Make America Dinner Again  wants to bring the country back together, 1 dinner at a time. They provide a step-by-step guide to make hosting your own dialogue dinner easy as pie. View the guide here.   Download host kit here. To host an online event, go to their Online Events page.You can also view the full 1-hour interview on YouTube.Contact Kathleen Oweegon at: oweegon@bridgesofpeace.com to share your ideas and feedback for this show. You can receive a free 30-minute communication coaching session by being a guest on Co-creating Peace to talk about your communication challenges and receive Kathleen's suggestions on the air. Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

At this week's Round Table, Collin, Kenisha, Madeline, and Maya spoke with Stewart Fletcher, Social Media Coordinator for Living Room Conversations. Living Room Conversations works to heal society by connecting people across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more – through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities. Stewart is a political science major at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah who has always been passionate about bringing people together: as the middle of ten kids, he has had lots of experience being a mediator. Living Room Conversations is part of a larger bridging movement working to bring people who think they disagree with one another together to see where they DO agree through guided conversations, resources, and events. Stewart believes people are more similar than we tend to think—that is, under the right circumstances that enable people to tap into their humanity and commonality. He feels Living Room Conversations' guides help do just this, creating simple, accessible, scalable scaffolds around dozens and dozens of topics that can help the common person do what they might not otherwise do. We talked about the importance of Community Agreements (Next Gen Politics' and Living Room Conversations' have a lot in common); how clouded people can be by our own biases; and what a successful conversation looks like and what emerges from them. We hope that YOU will be inspired to engage in your living room conversations. Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

In today's "Living Room Conversations", Chris and Christina introduce their youngest daughter, Libby. In her interview, Libby shares a childhood trauma that had a profound impact on her. She shares the lessons learned from pain and how she has been able to thrive despite setbacks. You'll be inspired by Libby's wisdom at such a young age! "Trauma is a part of my story, but it is not my identity." Libby Elledge

Welcome to “Living Room Conversations: Overcoming Polarization”, Episode #89 of Co-creating Peace.There is an unmet need that many of us experience. You've heard me speak about it before. It is the need to feel heard, to be acknowledged for who we are and how we perceive the world. Sadly, sometimes we have great difficulty in getting that need met. That's where Living Room Conversations comes in. Living Room Conversations is an organization that helps people to have safe, peaceful, comfortable conversations about the kinds of issues that we find disagreement about, that we feel a great deal of passion about.Joining me today is Annie Caplan to help her to tell us about an organization called living room conversations, the resources they have to share, and how each and every one of us can have these conversations ourselves.       Annie Caplan is an educator, community organizer, and Community Engagement Partner for Living Room Conversations. She loves connecting people and witnessing what can unfold when humans come together and share their stories and experiences. Annie aims to foster inclusive and accessible environments where folks feel comfortable showing up as their most authentic selves. To learn more about Living Room Conversations and access their vast array of dialogue resources, visit livingroomconversations.org. You can find their Conversation Agreements at: livingroomconversations.org/conversation_agreements

Continuing in a series called "Living Room Conversations", Chris and Christina share about their early marriage years. Find out how they have navigated learning the art of confrontation, basic communication and lessons learned along the way.

Today marks the first in a series called "Living Room Conversations". Chris and Christina share how their living room is where the best conversations happen. This is the place where the sharing and processing of the real heart stuff gets discussed. Today, Chris and Christina talk about their early dating years.

Watch this episode to hear a passionate progressive political activist make the case for listening to "both sides." Joan Blades is the co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org, an open-sourced effort to build respectful connections across ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core shared values. In this episode, she explains why she felt compelled to launch this latest start-up (she also co-founded MomsRising.org & MoveOn.org) and describes the power of dialogue. She also shares how she's forged many surprising friendships across the divides. 00:00 Introduction 00:23 About Joan Blades 01:53 What is a "living room conversation”? 04:43 How to change people's minds? 06:31 Who participates in "living room conversations” and how does it work? 10:02 Joan's backstory 14:00 Building bridges across the political left and right 15:45 The impact of social media on political polarization 17:47 Exploring “The Power of Empathy” as one topic for a "living room conversation" 21:31 How has Joan's activism impacted her personally? 25:26 Differences and similarities of values among political divides 26:56 Potential applications of "living room conversations" 33:24 Joan Blades' Purposeful Empathy story CONNECT WITH JOAN BLADES ✩Website LivingRoomConversations.org ✩ TED Talk https://livingroomconversations.org/video/lrc-at-ted-free-yourself-from-your-filter-bubbles/ ✩ Forgiveness conversation highlights https://livingroomconversations.org/video/forgiveness-living-room-conversations-highlights/ CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Twitter https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 ✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook ✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast This episode was brought to you by Grand Heron International REACH THEM AT ✩ Website www.grandheroninternational.ca; www.ghi.coach ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/grand-heron-international/ ✩ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/grandheroninternational/ ✩ Instagram @Grand_Heron_International ✩ Twitter @GrandHeronIntl ✩ https://twitter.com/GrandHeronIntl Video edited by David Tsvariani

In today's podcast, we have a story of the movement. List of Organizations mentioned : BRAVER ANGELS,  CIVIC SPIRIT, LISTEN FIRST,FIX US, SUSTAINED DIALOGUE, IN THIS  TOGETHER, COMMON CAUSE, THE COMMON GOOD,DIGITAL CITIZENS,  CIVIL TALK,POLITICAL EMPATHY PROJECT,CIVIL  DIALOGUES,LIVING ROOM CONVERSATIONS, COMMUNITY ROUND TABLES,VILLAGE SQUARES,STAND UP REPUBLIC,AMERICAN CIVICS RENEWAL,GENERATION of CITIZENS,DEPOLARIZE the USA, UNPLUGGED CIVICS,INSPIRED US,HEALTHY DEMOCRACY,BIG TENT NATION, PUBLIC KINSHIP,ALL SIDES,BRIDGE ALLIANCE,CITIZEN DATA,CONSERVE AMERICA,FAIR VOTES,TAKE BACK OUR REPUBLIC,  REPRESENT US,WEAVE and UNITE AMERICA,COMMON SENSE AMERICAN, ENGAGING DIFFERENCE,NATIONAL CONVERSATION PROJECT,MILLIONS OF  CONVERSATIONS,RENEWING DEMOCRACY,  URBAN AND RURAL ACTION,STAND TOGETHER,NATION of BUILDERS,EMPATHY and OPEN MINDs,SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND,BEYOND CONFLICT ,FIERCE CIVILITY,CIVIC GENIUS,CROSSED PARTY LINES,MORE IN COMMON,BEYOND their  BUBBLES,CAMPUS COMPACTS,MIDDLE  GROUND SOLUTIONS,LISTEN FOR A  CHANGE  

Welcome to “Connecting Across Divides”, Episode #67 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  The 2022 National Week of Conversation takes place April 24-30. It is a week of events and activities that bring people together across differences, and gives people an opportunity to experience dialogue and deliberation. I encourage you to harvest the opportunity to experience Dialogue & Deliberation by participating, You'll find information about how to participate in the National Week of Conversation at the end of these notes.I feel very strongly about the enlightening and healing power of dialogue, and the amazing potential to co-create a better future that collaborative deliberation brings forth. To help you have a sense of dialogue and deliberation and how it is being used around the country, last week's episode and today's are devoted to two innovative and dynamic organizations whose focus is to bring people together for conversation, connection and the opportunity to co-create new and better paths forward. Last week, Courtney Breese of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation joined me to talk about how dialogue & deliberation can bridge divides and help people connect with, and better understand, one another as fellow human beings despite different viewpoints and affiliations.Joining me today to talk about how dialogue and deliberation are being used by groups of young adults across the nation, are two inspiring young women from a dynamic student- student led organization called Civic Synergy.Civic Synergy is a student-led political depolarization organization bringing together young adults from across the political divide to communicate and collaborate. Over the course of 6 weeks, participants learn and practice conflict resolution skills and develop policy proposals which are presented to U.S. representatives at the end of the program.Laura Chen, Director of Program Development and Co-founder of Civic Synergy, is a senior at MIT studying chemical engineering and minoring in public policy. She is passionate about tackling sustainability and equity challenges and enhancing public participation. At MIT, she has enjoyed contributing to academic research and being a part of the Varsity Field Hockey team, the Terrascope community, and the MIT Water Club. In the fall, Laura is excited to join the Coro Fellows Program, a leadership and public affairs fellowship.Claire Kane is a freshman student at Clemson University studying Political Science and Communication. Claire is a first time Civic Synergy participant and seeks to explore more about civil discourse and discussion. Claire is involved on campus with the sorority Gamma Phi Beta, Clemson Club Swimming, and RHA. There is so much we can learn from one another by simply sitting down together exchanging ideas without trying to change each other's perspective or opinion, just listening to learn how others see the world and why. I encourage you to harvest the opportunity to experience Dialogue & Deliberation by participating in the National Week of Conversation – a week of events and activities that bring people together across differences. The 2022 National Week of Conversation starts tomorrow, Monday April 24 and ends on April 30. More information is available at https://americatalks.us/national-week-of-conversation/. To learn more about Civic Synergy, visit: civicsynergy.live To learn more about Living Room Conversations, visit their website at: livingroomconversations.org/

As I write this on April 21, 2022, America Talks is underway.  Americans with different backgrounds and beliefs are firing up their computers, turning on their cameras and talking to each other, face-to-face.  On purpose.  And with a purpose.  Creating connections to build bridges across our divides, find a path forward, and remind us of our common humanity.Talking and ListeningMy guests this week personify how the simple, yet courageous acts of talking and listening, are a key part of the solution to our country's challenges.Joan Blades is a liberal icon.   She co-founded MoveOn. org, the champion of progressive values.John Gable is a a former Republican operative and once worked for three Senate majority leaders, including the current one.On the surface, there's no way these two could be friends.But a funny thing happened on a walk in the parking lot:  they discovered they care about the same things.  What they didn't agree on was a path to get there.  But that didn't stop them.  And the next thing you know, a friendship was born.Their walks are now weekly.  They routinely seek each other's perspectives on all sorts of issues.   And they are working together to help bridge our country's divides.Living Room Conversations, the non-profit Joan co-founded, and AllSides.com, the company John co-founded, have partnered with each other.  And they are both partners of America Talks.Join the ConversationI invited Joan and John to join me live on Instagram to talk about their collaborative work, their friendship and their hopes for our future. That conversation is this week's podcast.Please watch or listen and then join the conversation.  There's still time.  America Talks is underway through Saturday, April 23rd, the next online event. And this year's National Week of Conversation is April 24th through 30th, powered by the #ListenFirst Coalition of 400+ organizations, America Talks Co-creators and allies across the country.www.ourvoicesmatterpodcast.comwww.lorellemedia.comThis podcast is devoted to empowering us all to better understand each other's differences...one story at a time.  Emmy Award-winning journalist, Linda Lorelle, guides guests through insightful, unexpected conversations that reveal our common humanity.  This show is not about politics per se; it is about finding a way to reclaim civility in the context of the contentious times in which we live, by sharing our personal and professional stories, in hopes that others might find a glimpse of themselves.Support the show (http://patreon.com/OurVoicesMatterPodcast)

Welcome to “Let's Talk About It”, Episode #66 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  The difficulties we have with one another are very often the result of lack of insight and understanding. In the absence of information we make assumptions about one another – assumptions that often lead to conflict.There is a cure for this phenomenon, and that is dialogue – sitting down with one another to have conversations that help us to learn about one another at deeper levels. When we put aside our assumptions, our biases, and the fears on which those are often based, and enter into dialogue with not only a willingness, but a desire, to learn about others and the way they experience and see the world, and then deliberate together to arrive at paths forward that can better meet the needs of all, we begin to build bridges of peace which can one day span the world.Joining me today to talk about dialogue and deliberation is Courtney Breese, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), a network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take positive action together to address today's toughest issues.In addition to serving as the Executive Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), Courtney Breese is a trainer, mediator, and facilitator with extensive experience working on state and municipal engagement efforts. She started facilitating dialogues as an undergraduate at Franklin Pierce University, where she received a bachelor's degree in social work and Counseling. To learn more about the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, go to www.ncdd.org. If Dialogue & Deliberation is something that you would like to experience, you can begin as early as this coming week by participating in the National Week of Conversation – a week of events and activities that bring people together across differences. The 2022 National Week of Conversation takes place April 24-30. More information is available at https://americatalks.us/national-week-of-conversation/. Here's how to contact the organizations Courtney mentioned in our conversation:Living Room Conversations' website is: https://livingroomconversations.org/Make America Dinner Again's website is:  www.makeamericadinneragain.com/Essential Partners' website is:  www.whatisessential.orgConversation Café's website is:  www.conversationcafe.org 

Throwback Wednesday “Parental Advisory Suggested” In this week's episode of Crenshaw Corner, we present to you, After Dark: Livingroom Conversation. We invite back to the show Daniel and Angela Anagaho to have an open and transparent conversation centered around marriage, sex in the marriage and asking the question how open is your dialogue regarding sex? Let's discuss and Family… Welcome to our Journey!!

Can food be a way to get more people to the table - so to speak - to discuss hot button topics and issues with a less argumentative and judgmental undertone?   This is a question that my guest on this episode quite literally set out to answer.   Justine Lee, the executive director of an organization called Living Room Conversations, as well as the co-creator of a series of events called Make America Dinner Again, believes that yes, getting people with divergent views and beliefs to sit down and share a meal with each other can be a way to cool the flames of polarization and get people.   For Justine, putting together these dinners was a way to help her deal with, as she puts it, the discomfort of the ugliness of her own thoughts.   The dinners are not a way to get people to agree. As I've said many times, including during my TEDx Talk, understanding does not equal agreement.   But if that's true, then I had to ask Justine, what should be our takeaways from having uncomfortable conversations?   Connect with Justine's work at livingroomconversations.org or facebook.com/groups/mada.discussion, and follow her at twitter.com/justineraelee or at justineraelee.com.

Ideas start wars and movements, undergird societies and governments, and shape the daily experiences of our personal lives. We ignore or underestimate the power of ideas to our detriment. And yet they can feel slippery to reckon with; difficult to see, tougher still to understand their complex movement through the world. Join The Progress Network for a wide-ranging discussion on ideas—which ones are significant now, which may be significant in the future, and how we can participate in ideas' power ourselves—with Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations and MoveOn.org, and public intellectual Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now and several other books. Zachary Karabell, founder of The Progress Network, moderates. This conversation was recorded on May 12, 2021. What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.

Most of us can agree that finding common ground is a good thing, but we desperately struggle to put it into action.   My guest this week is Bruce Bond, the CEO and Co-Founder of the Common Ground Committee, one of many organizations working to provide the "spark of inspiration" needed to help us come together in more meaningful ways.   Bruce says that without an outside common enemy, we often turn on ourselves and polarize, and this is why its so important for the so-called "exhausted majority" to find its voice.   Check out the Common Ground Committee at https://commongroundcommittee.org.   Other resources mentioned: Bridge Alliance - https://www.bridgealliance.us Civic Genius - https://www.ourcivicgenius.org Living Room Conversations - https://livingroomconversations.org Braver Angels - https://braverangels.org

Convention of States President Mark Meckler sits down with Rita Peters and Ginny Rapini to discuss why grassroots mobilization and legislative strategy must work together. This panel workshop was part of the 2019 COS Leadership Summit held in Colonial Williamsburg.

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Juliana Schroeder to discuss the psychology underlying how trust and distrust are generated as well as practical ways to better facilitate productive interactions, even across severe cultural, ideological, or other divides. Dr. Schroeder is a professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business and a faculty affiliate in the Social Psychology Department, the Cognition Department, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley. She also co-founded and directs the Psychology of Technology Institute, which supports and advances scientific research studying the psychological consequences and antecedents of technological advancements. Her research examines the psychological processes underlying how people think about the minds of those around them, and how their judgments then influence their social judgments, decisions, and interactions. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and awards from the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. Want more? Check out Discourse Magazine for more pieces on classical liberalism, politics, economics, and culture. Resources Shannon White, Juliana Schroeder, and Jane L. Risen, When Enemies become Close, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5f6a300a0c80ed485d74a75b/1600794637679/White%2C+Schroeder%2C+%26+Risen+2020+JPSP.pdf Juliana Schroeder and Jane L. Risen, Befriending the enemy: Outgroup friendship longitudinally predicts intergroup attitudes in a coexistence program for Israelis and Palestinians, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7b0015b208fcd4071df492/1551564822844/befriending-the-enemy.pdf Seeds of Peace, https://www.seedsofpeace.org/ Braver Angels, https://braverangels.org/ Living Room Conversations, https://livingroomconversations.org/ Psychology of Technology Institute, https://www.psychoftech.org/ Juliana Schroeder, Michael Kardas, and Nicholas Epley, The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff6ae4966b9aba01f4d6/1551564652086/the-humanizing-voice.pdf Alicea Lieberman and Juliana Schroeder, Two social lives: How differences between online and offline interaction influence social outcomes, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5d5acd294a8ef600016e778a/1566231850150/TwoSocialLives_LiebermanSchroeder.pdf Jamie E. Guillory PhD Jeffrey T. Hancock PhD Christopher Woodruff MD, FRCPC, and Jeffrey Keilman MD, Text Messaging Reduces Analgesic Requirements During Surgery, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pme.12610 The Flipside, https://www.theflipside.io/ The Factual, https://www.thefactual.com/ All Sides, https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news Daniel H. Stein, Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5fda6b470917ce2aa86a82d8/1608149834372/When+alterations+are+violations+-+proofs.pdf Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c171ac1710699e060ed3d94/t/5c7aff16e2c4834c1a2bee7c/1551564567399/handshaking-promotes-deal-making-by-signaling-cooperative-intent.pdf James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, Richard J. Davidson, Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01832.x Robert Talisse, Too Much of a Good Thing, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2020/11/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/ Danielle Allen, A Matter of Trust, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2020/12/04/a-matter-of-trust/

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Welcome back! Today is the International Day of Listening!  We have a special episode today with Tracy Hollister.  Tracy works for the organization Listening Room Conversations, an organization attempting to heal divides with a conversational model developed by dialogue experts in order to facilitate connection between people despite their differences, and even identify areas of common ground and shared understanding.  Tracy and I chat about her work with Living Room Conversations, the relationships she has developed across political and cultural divides, and why listening to people with whom we disagree requires great courage.   Check out Living Room Conversations!  Go to their website or follow them on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.  You can register for September 19th's International Day of Listening conversation here and September 20th's Weaving the Social Fabric here.  Over all, I'd encourage you to keep an eye out for Living Room Conversation Events here.  And you can always reach Tracy at tracy@livingroomconversations.org   Also Mentioned in this Episode One Love Equality Documentary Eating Hummus with the Enemy: from Aversion to Affection The Gift of Imperfections by Brene Brown