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🕊️Essential Partners' Guide to Dialogues About Israel-Palestine is a crucial tool for navigating nuanced convos while emphasizing respect for diverse perspectives + skilled facilitation for polarized contexts. #NCDD #DemoPart #ListenFirst @essentialprtnrs ncdd.org/news/essential…
Rising partisan polarization is a danger to our relationships, our communities, and our democracy. Our new revised Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide provides tips and tools for richer, healthier discourse about the issues that matter most: bit.ly/3IntGTd
The opportunity to avoid this level of dysfunction was to invest in the capacity for healthy engagement across huge, fundamental, uncompromising differences *before there was a crisis.*
The opportunity to avoid this level of dysfunction was to invest in the capacity for healthy engagement across huge, fundamental, uncompromising differences *before there was a crisis.*
Read more about how EP can move your Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging initiative from aspirational to operational: bit.ly/3EPi09W
Our free 2024 Election resources—including classroom lessons, a skill-building resource, and a guide to partisan conversations—are designed to interrupt partisan polarization where you live, work, worship, and learn. bit.ly/43fnbLO
We're going to have to write a @taylorswift13 dialogue guide, aren't we?
Pittsburgh residents, you're invited to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for the opening of CivicCLP's Essential Photovoice gallery! View photographs that represent community and belonging to the participants. Free + public, refreshments served. bit.ly/4d2hiGl
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench said in a Tuesday interview with The Crimson that free speech is an “international issue” rather than a Harvard-specific problem. Adina R. Lippman and @angelinajparker report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…
My partner is out of town this weekend. Me and the boys have some big plans! 🔥🔥🔥 The boys: @essentialprtnrs
There's a word you should *just* never use when describing another person. bit.ly/3It8koc
Scenes from the Baruch College Dialogic Classroom workshop last week! Want to learn more about bringing our transformative to your college classroom and/or campus? Click here: whatisessential.org/higher-ed
Our free 5-week curriculum offers skills, frameworks, and resources for you to reduce polarization while building connection, compassion, and understanding where you live, work, worship, and learn. Sign up today: bit.ly/41ZADSX
It's the National Week of Conversation, and we went to experts to put together a primer for nonprofit professionals on how to handle powderkeg conversation topic with boards, supporters, staff, and more. #TheCommons #ListenFirst #DisagreeBetter bit.ly/4ay5Xw5
Rising partisan polarization is a danger to our relationships, our communities, and our democracy. Our new revised Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide provides tips and tools for richer, healthier discourse about the issues that matter most: bit.ly/3IntGTd
Our free 2024 Election resources—including classroom lessons, a skill-building resource, and a guide to partisan conversations—are designed to interrupt partisan polarization where you live, work, worship, and learn. bit.ly/43fnbLO
It's true—people want to be able to live and work well together, even across big differences. And when they have the tools to navigate those differences, they make great things happen!
It's true—people want to be able to live and work well together, even across big differences. And when they have the tools to navigate those differences, they make great things happen!
Drawing on decades of experience as well as the wisdom of our community, this new free guide contains everything you need to lead dialogues about Israel and Palestine in numerous contexts—including faith institutions and college campuses. bit.ly/3PSf7LG
Our free 5-week curriculum offers skills, frameworks, and resources for you to reduce polarization while building connection, compassion, and understanding where you live, work, worship, and learn. Sign up today: bit.ly/41ZADSX
Everyone who participates in an EP training gets lifetime access to our global Community of Practice! Register for a workshop today: bit.ly/3JhvuOL
Rising partisan polarization is a danger to our relationships, our communities, and our democracy. Our new revised Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide provides tips and tools for richer, healthier discourse about the issues that matter most: bit.ly/3IntGTd
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April 15-21 is National Week of Conversation. Organized by @ListenFirstProj and @citizenconnect3, the event is designed to foster communication and help people #DisagreeBetter. We will be sharing opinion essays and stories from our new project #TheCommons. bit.ly/3Q4OIKC
We're thrilled about this new initiative from @Philanthropy and @DrewLindsayCOP! Look out for a contribution from @kcambell in the coming weeks.
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"Election campaigns tell us who to fear and who to trust, who to exclude, what to say, and what to believe. Although we never feel more divided than we do at the height of these campaigns, soon it will be the day after the election. We’ll return to life, work, worship, and…
Friends, I know no one more committed to providing practical and proven tools for ways where people can talk about important differences than @PeterTColeman1 This article doesn’t downplay serious differences. It uplifts the possibilities of trying to communicate and comprehend.
Have you become estranged from a close friend, family member or colleague recently over tough political or moral differences? If so, try this - I did and it helped! startswith.us/2024/03/20/6-s…
@essentialprtnrs @SustainDialogue @braverangels @BtGProjectDC We can't wait!
Which campus processes develop which civic skills? SDI's campus network is a featured approach here, alongside @essentialprtnrs, @LivingRoomConvo, and others. A large thank you to @interfaithusa who gathered us to create this report! bit.ly/48Oavg5
#CivicArkansas is a unique opportunity for the Institute, as this initiative continues Winthrop Rockefeller’s work and legacy. He saw the possibilities of Arkansas, and he wanted to contribute to the place he loved.
Thank you for being with us today! #CivicArkansas
Thank you, @Rockefeller for the opportunity to hear other Arkansans. #CivicArkansas
Today, we are thinking about a article by @StartsWithUs, that talks about how toxic polarization is the problem, not the polarization of beliefs. READ MORE: ow.ly/lCk450QsPR3
From @essentialprtnrs: 8 common indicators of polarization. whatisessential.org/8-signs-polari… 1: Discussions about the issue are dominated by people who are passionately certain. They leave no room for complexity and drown out other voices. 2. The most vocal individuals and groups…
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Listen to this fantastic @commongroundcom podcast with one pro-choice and one pro-life and Frances Hogan, pro-choice and pro-life leaders who participated in EP-led dialogues about abortion: bit.ly/3Mklara
We appreciate you sharing this free resource! @essentialprtnrs
Our free 5-week curriculum offers skills, frameworks, and resources for you to reduce polarization while building connection, compassion, and understanding where you live, work, worship, and learn. Sign up today: bit.ly/41ZADSX
Our Executive Director @PSpivagon spoke at a panel at @Harvard_Law’s ADR Career Night with Gerard McHugh at @cdint and Nadiya Brock at @essentialprtnrs to tell law students the community about what one career in the ADR field can look like. He was honored to be featured.
@essentialprtnrs Reflective Structured Dialogue allows us to gather our thoughts prior to engaging in discussion. Thank you for this framework!
Building the skills you need to hold a healthy space for differences, create a more inclusive culture, and lead more effective teams—that's what we mean when we talk about dialogue.
My challenge to my university: It's time to better tolerate and champion open disagreement between Conservative and Progressive voices on campus - for the good of us all. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2023/0…
Exhausted by toxic polarization? Complete one exercise per weekday for four weeks to break the blame cycle, repair strained relationships, and be a leader of constructive conflict. Developed by Peter T. Coleman (@PeterTColeman1), Ph.D., our Expert-in-Residence and a Columbia…
We love this take on curiosity @essentialprtnrs! “Ask for a story” opens the door to deeper connection.
EP Associate and @SMU faculty member Jill DeTemple talks about the power of curiosity, questions, and listening to bridge divides and transform the educational experience bit.ly/3SuuEjl
NEW: Today, I am kicking off our “We Are #MadeToConnect” College Tour! I’ll be visiting colleges across the nation to speak with students and campus leaders about the power of social connection and how to address loneliness. 1/4