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A workshop to help you recognize your "inner polarizer," challenge assumptions, and engage across political differences with greater understanding, respect, and less hostility.
In partnership with the Village of Northbrook Community Commission
The Depolarizing Ourselves Introductory Workshop is designed to help you lessen the effects of polarization when you encounter them in your political conversations. Note that by "polarization," we are not referring to healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. We are talking about how we regard and talk about large groups of ordinary people on the other side of our own politics as if they were enemies.
In our current political climate, much of our conflict stems not from healthy disagreement over policies, issues, or philosophy. Instead, it's created by the often emotional, rancor escalating, and highly polarizing conversations that we typically have with others. Braver Angels has created our Depolarizing Ourselves Workshop to help you reframe how you view the other side in the face of disagreements around politics. Successfully "taming" our inner polarizer starts with recognizing our tendencies around harmful generalizations about the other side. This requires acknowledging how we often attribute negative intent and motivations to the other side without first trying to understand them.
