Micheal Ratner speaking at WESPAC Awards Dinner

wespac-adminPosted on April 22, 2008 Posted in Movement Building

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We all need this training:
Braver Angels National Online Workshop on Skills
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(For more information, contact Orlando Rodriguez, Organizer at [email protected])

Workshop: Saturday September 19, 2pm Easter time
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This is a course designed to foster skills to help you lessen the effects of polarization when you encounter them in your political conversations. We are not referring to healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. We are talking about how we regard and talk about large groups of ordinary people on the other side of the political aisle.

This workshop teaches skills to become more aware of your own inner polarizer and finding ways to counteract that impulse; learning how to be critical without stereotyping, dismissing, ridiculing, or showing contempt; and building skills for intervening in a constructive way in social conversations that veer into contempt and ridicule for people who hold other political views.

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We bring Reds & Blues together to find common humanity and depolarize our politics. Join us in person for a workshop or a debate in your town!

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