April 15-21, 2024 is National Week of Conversation - "An opportunity for Americans to show up for each other and for the country we love.
"Through NWOC Signature Experiences conversations, cultural events, learning activities, and panel discussions you can join the movement to help shift our country away from toxic division towards increased curiosity and cohesion."
Monday, April 15, 2024, at noon PDT - Music of Our Lives
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 9 a.m. PDT - Building Communities that Listen
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at noon PDT - Libraries As Bridging Spaces
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 5 p.m. PDT - Bridging Heros in the Posthuman Classroom
There will also be a Better Together Film Festival - sign up to host a screening.
National Week of Conversation is brought to us by:
Listen First Project - "elevates the impact of the movement to bridge divides in America. We connect the efforts of 500 Listen First Coalition partners, bringing people together across divides. We manage national campaigns and strategies for social cohesion. Listen First Project is the backbone organization for collective impact to save our country from breaking apart. Listen First Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization."
Citizen Connect - "a non-partisan platform dedicated to helping Americans right, left and center find ways to heal our divides and strengthen this great nation."
The Prohuman Foundation - "promotes the foundational truth that every person is a unique individual united by our shared humanity. We do this through educational resources and programs based on the Prohuman Approach, that empower people to engage across differences and move forward, together."
Middle Ground School Solutions - "consults with and delivers workshops for educators to help them position today’s students to ease tomorrow’s political polarization."
Living Room Conversations -"creates effective and accessible tools for dialogue. We connect people across divides through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities."
AllSides Technologies Inc. strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. With Living Room Conversations they built Mismatch–a platform that makes it easy to schedule a virtual dialogue between students who are the political, racial, geographical, and socio-economic opposite of each other."
Find the experience that fits for you and embrace the opportunity to #DisagreeBetter
Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project "trains facilitators to lead reflective conversations on topics of their choosing. Organizations then request to host these conversations in their communities with support from Oregon Humanities. These conversations can take multiple forms.
Community Conversation: a single, ninety-minute program
Reflective Conference: multiple conversations held over a single day
Expanded Conversation: a longer conversation customized to the host organization’s interests"
Click here to open the Conversation Project's catalog in a new window. If you see a program you want to host, use this form to request a conversation in your community.