Spring 2025/ Session Five: Strategies for Courageous Conversations

 Session Five: Theme: Transforming Power & Conflict Resolution

 

Welcome and Introductions; (all)

 

Agenda Preview: RR

 

Meditation: JJ "Body and Breathe"Link to Site

 

 Gathering: “A strategy that I use in challenging conversations is...” RR

 

 Video: Drs. Julie and John Gottman,"The right way to fight with your significant other," Today Show,

1/31/24 

Rap: JJ Flooding

Light and Lively/Break: RR

 

Exercise: RR/The LAPP process and Role Plays

Skills Review and Post-Test/ JJ

Closing:  reading, "Crud and the Jewel," JJ

 

Reflections and Toolbox: JJ/RR

 

 

 Resources:

• "Setting Boundries with Others,' from "Stop Pleasing People and  and Find Your Power."Link to Site

•  Karen Sampson, "50 Questions You Can Ask Friends and Relatives in Political Arguments," Mediate.com, Link to Site

• Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman and Dr.John Gottman, "The Right Way to Fight with your significant other, Today Show, 1/31/24 Link to Site

• Monica Guzman, Best of/ How can you talk politics in a divided family?, A Braver Way, 9/10/24 Link to Site

• Daryl Davis, "Why as a black man, I attend KKK rallies?" Ted Talk Link to site

• "When you hear the word violence," AVP/USA Link to Site

• Jon Ward, "How to pursue healthy conflict on Thanksgiving," Yahoo!News, 11/22/23 Link to Site

• Gottman-Rapoport Intervention Link to Site

" To be useful and alive, our opinions - particularly our political opinions - must be in curious conversation with each other. When we're divided, politics feels feels like it's exclusively about stopping the other side. But at its core, politics is about how we co-exist wisely, how we create societies that that support us in all our different priorities and preferences.This is how opinions serve us: not by pushing us to defend our point of view to each other at all costs at all times, but by representing it in ongoing negotiations that both honor and transform it."

    Monica Guzman, "I Never Thought of it that Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times."