Why this workshop?

Choosing to engage across political differences is a courageous act of love. This free, 6-week online workshop (one 90-minute Zoom session per week) is designed to help you transform emotional tension into genuine understanding.

We believe you can learn to talk about what truly matters in a way that actually strengthens the relationship. 

Why are my brother and I offering this free workshop?

We're passionate about family, and feel that losing family or deep friendship because of misunderstandings is an avoidable tragedy. We believe that with a few new skills and a little practice, we can help others make a huge difference in their lives. And in this extraordinary time of political polarization, we're doing what we can to help families and friends come back together and understand each other more.

What we’ll explore together

We will equip you with specific, high-leverage tools to shift your dynamic.

• Acknowledge the Loss: Grieve what’s been lost and honor your longing for deeper conversations with your beloved.

• Learn Effective Tools: Apply proven frameworks that go beyond standard communication advice to help you constructively explore political and societal differences.

• Build Your Conversational Muscle: Practice staying centered and curious when political conversations get hard.

• Shift Your Contribution: Discover how you might be unintentionally contributing to the disconnect and learn concrete ways to shift.

• Strengthen Your Resilience: Gain awareness of the blind spots and biases in your preferred news sources, helping you approach conversations with less certainty and more spaciousness.

• Take the Leap: Find the courage to try a new kind of conversation with your beloved!

Guiding questions

Throughout the workshop, we’ll explore questions like:

• How can I engage in a healthier, more constructive conversation about hot button issues with someone I truly care about when we see the world so differently?

• What makes this worth my time and emotional energy, not to mention the risk?

• Beyond good advice on how to have a respectful conversation, what tools can actually help? 

• In what ways might I be unknowingly contributing to the disconnect?

• How can I approach our differences with more curiosity and less certainty and righteousness?

A personal invitation

This passion project grew directly out of our experience in moving through our major political and world view differences. We are partnering to share the tools that help us engage in conversations across differences with love, respect and curiosity. 

Our commitment is to move together:

• From Drama to Dialogue

• From Division to Deeper Connection

• From Closing Down to Staying Open

If this resonates, we warmly invite you to join us on this journey:

• Please fill out this Application Form and we'll get back to you as this workshop's cohort begins to take shape.

• This is an "application" rather than a "registration" because the workshop is designed to have comparable participation from different social and political perspectives.

Workshop dates

Thursdays, 4:00 PST/ 7:00 EST
January 22nd through February 26th

Yours in the learning,
Kristin and Dane