Note: Event times and speaker lineups are subject to change
In today’s increasingly polarized world, we struggle to have hard conversations. This workshop will first take participants back in time and explore how the Enlightenment ushered in a “persuasion revolution”, whereby ideas with which one disagreed could be tolerated (and even celebrated!) for, arguably, the first time ever. Then, it will return to the modern day and present compelling neuropsychology about why disagreement feels terrible, and thus a threat. But when we approach hard conversations with humility (for our views) and curiosity (for others’ views), disagreement can suddenly turn exciting, and thus an adventure. Participants will leave this session equipped with a framework to transform contentious, threatening discussions into valuable, adventurous ones—which might just work to heal a culture beset by contempt for “the other side”.
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