Find audio and visual resources related to Talking Across Difference. This collection includes webinars and videos pertaining to civic engagement, facilitating respect conversations, democracy, and dialogue across difference.
- Bridging the Gap with Tina Grace | Building Blocks of Listening: Silence – In this series, Tina Grace teaches us essential skills for fostering understanding and connection.
- Campus Protests: Then and Now – The University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement explores the similarities and differences between current student activism and student activism in the 1960s.
- Facilitating Respectful Conversations in the Political Science Classroom – The American Political Science Association gathered faculty from multiple institutes of higher education to host a Webinar on building a comfortable classroom environment to have constructive dialogue and inclusive dialogue on politics.
- How Our Friendship Survives Our Opposing Politics – Join Caitlin Quattromani and Lauren Arledge, two best friends who navigate friendship with different political views. In this TED talk with Caitlin and Lauren (2017) learn how they actively chose to engage in dialogue and skills they utilized to maintain friendship.
- Listening is a Superpower – The ability to listen well, especially to someone you disagree with, is a fundamental skill of bridgebuilding. Bridging the Gap founder Simon Greer offers a step-by-step guide to improving your own listening skillset in this instructional video. The film offers an overview of the power of listening, the science behind effective listening, and practical activities for practicing these skills. This video can be used by educators as a preparation tool before they teach listening in the classroom, or as a curricular tool to use with students either as a pre-watch prior to a class discussion, or as a standalone online session on the skills of listening.
- Re/Designing Democracy – Hosted by AAC&U’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE), this webinar provided an overview of “Democracy Re/Designed,” a conceptual framework and a set of tools for engaging students—and others—in discussions about the future of democracy. Learn how your campus can get involved and how you can use the tools to facilitate these discussions.
- Talking Across Differences: A Healing Justice Framework for Assisting International Students in the U.S. – Join Ting Fang Claire Chen, Carded Souza, and Seojung Lee from Colorado State University to engage in conversation about Talking Across Difference among international students.
- Talk LESS, Listen MORE | Simon Sinek – Making someone feel heard doesn’t mean you’re wrong. To achieve any amount of peace or understanding, we need to be curious and LISTEN instead of demonizing the opposition.
- The Power of Listening | William Ury | TEDxSanDiego – William Ury explains how listening is the essential, and often overlooked, half of communication. His stories of candid conversations with presidents and business leaders provide us with impactful lessons, such as understanding the power of a human mind opening up. He asks us to join a listening revolution, and promises that if we all just listen a little bit more, we can transform any relationship.
- 4 Things All Great Listeners Know – It’s easy to tell when someone’s not paying attention, but it can be surprisingly tricky to know what good listening looks like. Good listening is one of the most important things we can do to improve our relationships, develop our worldview, and potentially change people’s minds. So what can we do to become better listeners? Dig into different strategies that can improve your listening skills.
- 5 Ways to Listen Better | Julian Treasure | TED – In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, “We are losing our listening.” In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening — to other people and the world around you.
