2024 Tools for Courageous Conversations Resources

                                 2024 Tools for Courageous Conversations Resources

          2024/ Tools for Courageous Conversations and Nonviolent Communication Resources 

 

Meditations:

• " 5 minute meditation you can do anywhere'," Link to Site

•   meditation, South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department,  Link to Site

 "Leaves on a Stream," Link to Site

Groups providing opportunities/formats for civil discourse

 Braver Angels 

 

• Monica Guzman, "How to be a better Human, How to Curious Conversations in dangerously divided times," Ted talk, 11/21/22 Link to transcript 

• documentary trailer,"Better Angels,"Link to Site

• online training,"Braver Angels Skills for Bridging the Divide," Braver Angels, Link to Site

• podcast, Betty Burkes on Nonviolent Communication, from Humankind: Voices of Hope and Humanity, Link to Site 

• "Making Friends with Conflict," Project Zero/Opal, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2019 Link to Site

• Anne Applebaum, "Co-existance is the only option," Atlantic Magazine, 1/20/21 Link to site 

• Jon Ward, "How to Pursue Healthy Conflict  on Thanksgiving," Yahoo News, 11/22/23 Link to site

• Sarah Van Gilder, "8 tips to get you through difficult conversations this holiday season,"Yes magazine, 11/22/17 Link to Site

• active listening example, Sheldon and Amy, The Big Bang Theory Link to Site

• CLARA Method of Descalation, Link to Site

• Living Room Conversations, website, Link to Site

• Cecily Sailer and Jim Tuttle, "A Tale of Two Karens," Yes! Magazine, 1/20/21 Link to Site

• "Bridging the Divide," PBS Newshour, 1/10/22, (start at 26:28) Link to Site

• "Hands Across the Hills," Link to site (AH)

• Living Room Conversations, website, Link to Site

• Rules of Civil Conversation Link to Site

Nonviolent Communication

• Julian Treasure, "5 ways to Listen Better," TED Talk, 2011 Link to Site

• video, "The Nonviolent Communications Model,"Link to Site

 

• video, "What is Nonviolent Communication?" Happiness.org Link to Site

 

• video, Marshal Rosenberg, "Non Violent Communication, A Way of Life," Link to Site 

 • Center for Nonviolent Communication, Link to Site 

•"What is Nonviolent Communication.What is NVC?" Youtube, Happiness.com, 11/7/17 Link to Site

Deescalation  strategies

• video, Dr. Christian Conte, "How to de-escalate anybody,"Link Site

• video, Chris Westfell, "How to Diffuse a Difficult Situation,- in Just Five Words," Link to Site

• video, "Calming and De-escalation Strategies," Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center, Link to Site

Empathy

• posted by Eth Zurich, "To Counter hate speech, push for Empathy?," Futurity, 12/7/21 Link to article

• Edwin Rutsch,,"How to take part in a basic empathy circles," youtube, 8/21/19 Link to Site

• Empathy Circle website, Link to Site

• Dylan Marron, "Empathy is not an endorsement," TED Talk, Link to Site (Sue)

• David Brooks, interview with Walter Issacson,  "How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen," Amanpour & Co., December 2023. Link to Site

De-radicalization

•  Kristy Jansen, " The Art of Connection: Finding ourselves through others," Optimist Daily,1/18/21Link to site,

(1) video: Daryl Davis, "Why I, as a Black Man  attend KKK Rallies," TEDx/Naperville, 12/8/17 Link to Site

(2) video, Christian Piccolini, "My descent in America's neo-nazi movement and how I got out," TEDxMileHigh Talk Link to video

(3) Cynthia Miller-Idriss,  "Extremism has spread into the mainstream. It's a public health problem, not  a security issue," The Atlantic Magazine, 6/15/21  Link to site 

(4) David Yaffe-Bellany and Sophia Cai, "Can Extremists Be Deradicalized?", Bloomberg Businessweek, 10/14/21 Link to Site

(5) Lisette Voytko, "How to talk with and maybe help someone who believes in QAnon and other conspiracy theories," Forbes, 8/26/20 Link to Site

Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP)

• video, "When you hear the Word Violence," Alternatives to Violence Project, Link to Site 

• " Is What You're Doing an AVP Workshop?"AVP International. Link to Site

• AVP International Link to Site

• AVP USA Link to Site