Session 10: Remedies: Disarming Conversations -Bridging the Divide

  Session 10: Disarming Conversations -Bridging the Divide

Music: David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey, "Under Pressure," Link to site

Essential Questions:

• What are some specific strategies/tools to de-escalate a conversation?

• What are some specific techniques to find common ground with others?

• What is empathy and why is it an important tool for de-escalating conversations.

Rick's Rap (agenda preview, homework, news of the day )

Speaker:  Joseph Anastasio (LCSW), Alternatives to Violence Project facilitator

Exercise: Active Listening (Rick)

Exercise: "I Messages," (Joseph) 

Homework:

• "Conflict Resolution During the Crisis," Peacecasters,  5/25/20, Link to site

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

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

Resources:

• David Brooks, "How to Engage a Fanatic,"NY Times, 10/23/17 Link to site

• "How to get thru to a white supremist,"," Life After Hate,   Link to site

,• How to Talk With - and Maybe  Help - Someone Who Believes In QAnon and Other Conspiracy Theories," Forbes Magazine, 8/26/20 Link to Site

• (start at 10:00 minute)Thich Kant Hahn and Oprah Winfrey, 2013, Link to Site

• Thich Nhat Hahn, " The Roots of Anger," excerpt from Practicing in the Present Moment, Plum Village, 1/31/04  Link to Site

• "Building Resilience & confronting Risk:  A Parents & Caregivers Guide to online radicalization," SPLC 6/30/20  Link to Site