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This section is intended to help participants deepen their awareness of both what they value and believe is important in this world and in their lives as well as how they came to those beliefs and values.
I-1. Who Am I?
I-2. Who Are You?
I-3. What Is Important to Me?
I-3A. What Are My Values?
I-3B. My Top 3 Values
I-3C. Top 3 Values Share Out
I-4. Communication Styles
I-5. This I Believe
Having the capacity for empathy toward those who have different ideas and experiences is essential to being able to have dialogue across differences in perspective. This section is aimed at helping participants gain a fuller understanding of empathy overall and the various types of empathy, and witness situations where empathy has allowed individuals from different backgrounds to better understand each other.
II-1. Engaging Differences
II-2. What is Empathy?
II-3. The Importance of Empathy
II-4. Building Empathy
II-5. Who Has Helped You Build Capacity for Empathy?
II-6. The Transformative Nature of Empathy
Too often, conversations about political and social issues consist of each participant just waiting for their turn to state their views in an effort to convince others of the “rightness” of their perspective. Our experience, and that of others working in this field, shows that when participants can cultivate curiosity, about both their own viewpoints and those of others, the conversations become richer and more meaningful. This section is intended to give each participant a chance to practice asking questions that can take them to a deeper level of understanding.
III-1. The Ladder of Inference
III-2. Productive Conversations
III-2A. Advocacy and Inquiry in Conversations
III-3. Circle of Viewpoints
The word democracy comes from the Greek roots of demos (people) and kratos (power). It is in this context that the views of individuals matter. Therefore, the importance of being able to have difficult conversations about political and social topics has its root in the privilege of living in a democracy. This section is designed to help participants reflect on what it means to live in a democracy and how that influences our perspectives on being able to have difficult conversations.
IV-1. Two Sources, The Same Story
IV-2. All Sides, All Stances
IV-3. Essential Elements in a Representative Democracy
IV-4. To Be an American
As with any set of skills, practice helps. This section is designed to help participants practice having conversations with those who hold different perspectives.
V-1. Working Together to Address Our Challenges
V-2. Have You Reached Across the Aisle?
V-3. One Small Step: Conversations Across Differences
V-4. Finding Humanity in Difficult Political Conversations
V-5. Can A Divided America Heal?
V-6. Responding to Difference in a Democracy
V-6A. What Should We Do With Differences in a Democracy?
V-7. Purple: America, We Need to Talk
V-8. Deliberative Democracy: America in One Room
V-9. How to Have Conversations Across Differences
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