Depolarizing Within – Dayton Workshop

The Depolarizing Within Workshop is a free workshop with Braver Angels that helps participants look within to see how they are engaging or participating in polarizing ways. The workshop offers participants the tools to develop strategies for engaging in political discussion without demonizing the other side. It also shows how to constructively intervene in social conversations with like-minded peers.

This workshop is designed to foster skills to recognize and lessen the effects of polarization when encountered within political conversations with your like-minded circle. When referring to “polarization,” Braver Angels is not referring to healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. We are looking at how we regard and talk in polarizing terms about large groups of ordinary people on the other side of the political aisle.

Goals of this workshop:

• Develop strategies for engaging in political discussion without demonizing the other side
• Constructively intervene in social conversations with likeminded peers
• Recognize and lessen the effects of polarization when encountered within political conversations with your like-minded circle,