Online Workshop: Families & Politics

January 3, 2026

2:00-5:00 p.m. (ET)

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Family relationships can become casualties of a toxic political environment. Family members are having bitter political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships.

If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your values and political beliefs, this workshop will offer you:

• Insight into why family differences over politics are uniquely challenging

• Recognition of common roles that family members play in political conversations

• Strategies and skills for handling family political differences in a constructive way

Although the focus is on family relationships, you can use learnings in this workshop with any loved one. You’ll laugh and have some fun in this workshop—it won’t be all serious. After all, we all come from quirky families.

Crossing the Continental Divide: An Introduction to Braver Angels

January 10, 2026

2:00-3:30 p.m. (ET)

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Crossing the Continental Divide provides participants with an introduction to Braver Angels and an overview of its principles. During this presentation participants will:

• Participate in two brief activities (one taken directly from the Depolarizing Within workshop)

• Watch a video of a Braver Angels' Red/Blue workshop in action

• Gain knowledge about how to have better conversations

• Learn about other Braver Angels' experiences and opportunities

Online Workshop: Skills for Disagreeing Better

January 17, 2026

2:00-3:45 p.m. (ET)

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In this polarized time, we lack basic understanding of why people on the other political side hold their beliefs. We don’t see them as they see themselves–their core values and central concerns–but instead as we choose to see them. We are tempted to regard our own side as principled and the other side as self-interested. We can learn to disagree better, which means accurately seeing where we differ and where we share common ground.

Goals of the workshop:

• More understanding of the values and concerns of people who differ from you politically

• Better skills for listening in a way so that the other person feels heard

• Better skills for sharing viewpoints in a way the other person might hear -- even if they disagree

Online Workshop: Depolarizing Within

January 24, 2026

2:00-5:00 p.m. (ET)

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Polarization can be 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.

This workshop teaches participants:

• How to be more aware of their own "inner polarizer"

• How to be critical without demonizing, dismissing or stereotyping large swaths of the population

• How to constructively intervene in polarizing social conversations with like-minded people

National Debate: The American Dream

January 27, 2026

8:00-10:00 p.m. (ET)

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The ideal of the American Dream was introduced into popular discourse early in the 20th century in the wake of the Great Depression. By the 1950s, alongside economic prosperity and the expansion of home ownership in the United States, the American Dream had come to symbolize Americans’ collective optimism about upward mobility. Does this ideal still hold promise in our modern economy? Does the American Dream need an update?

What do you think? Is the American Dream alive and well? Join us for a debate on the topic – Resolved: The American Dream is alive and well.