Better Angels:  Depolarizing Within Workshop

Better Angels is a national nonprofit with a mission to depolarize America. Its leadership is half “red” and half “blue.”  Learn more atwww.better-angels.org.We bring people together from all across the political spectrum to have productive conversations and to create working alliances that help us develop solutions to issues from the local to national levelsSoCal Alliance:Cynthia Berkshire cynthia.berkshire@gmail.comDan Selz  dan.selz@gmail.comRandy Lioz    rlioz@better-angels.org

Better Angels SoCal Alliance

DEPOLARIZING WITHIN:  BECOMING A BETTER ANGEL IN YOUR OWN WORLD
Much of today’s epidemic of toxic polarization is driven by how we talk with like-minded people about those on the other side.  Too often we stereotype, dismiss, or ridicule our fellow citizens who support the other political party, its leaders, and its policies.  Although political polarization in some form has always been around, it was less problematic when people interacted more outside their own silos. Nowadays, people on the other side have become not just strangers but enemies.  How we talk among ourselves about them fuels fires that threaten our democracy.
What if we learn the discipline of non-polarizing attitudes and words about the political “Other” with whom we do share a national past and future?
This workshop will: 
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Help you become more aware of your inner polarizer 
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Help you learn ways to depolarize yourself so that you can disagree without demonizing, dismissing, or stereotyping the millions of people who differ from you politically  
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Teach you skills for how to intervene in social conversations with like-mined people when those conversations veer into contempt and ridicule for people who hold other political views 
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FAQs
 
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
There is free parking available on campus.   Details will be provided to ticket holders.

New Roads School at the Herb Albert Educational Village

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