Depolarizing Conversations on Race w/ Bahá’í-inspired Racial Healing Series

Our “presentation” on Saturday February 12th at 4:30PT.6:30CT/7:30ET will be a hands-on workshop!
Pre-registration is required! Click HERE to register.

Depolarizing Conversations About Race is a skills workshop for those difficult but necessary conversations about race. It seeks to improve the culture of conversations about race and provide a constructive alternative to the polarized and judgmental exchanges that dominate our current discourse.

If You Take This Workshop, You Will Be:

• Better at listening to people who have differing views on race and public policy, so they feel heard.
• More skilled in expressing views in a way that the other person can hear you.
• More able to find common ground when it is present.

Testimonial: “I have attended an entire workshop and can tell you that the conversational skills you will learn can be applied to nearly any difficult conversation or relationship. Furthermore, you will be engaging with people from across the country who also want to communicate more constructively about race.”

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  REGISTER HERE After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Braver Angels created this workshop to help participants develop more skills for listening to others and expressing their own views on race in ways that lead to more productive conversations across differences.

“Conversations about race are often dysfunctional and judgmental, descending into “Just listen to me explain racism to you” and “Don’t call me a racist!”

The vast majority of  people are firmly against racism as they define it, but they battle over what it means—for example, systemic versus personal—and about whether racism is mostly an evil of the past versus an ongoing scourge. They split over framing our country’s history as fundamentally compromised by racism versus its ideals still standing to light the way forward.

When it comes to policy solutions, many  people have trouble sustaining conversations on issues such as affirmative action, police reform, reparations, and removing statues. Conversations flare up and shut down, relationships become strained, and a national path forward on race becomes harder to envision. We need to change the culture of conversations about race and public policy among  Americans, finding alternatives to the polarized and judgmental nature of these exchanges. “