Bridge Well — Conversations Across Difference

The Problem

"Divides of race, language, politics and belief run through our homes, campuses and workplaces. Arguing harder rarely helps, and avoiding the conversation leaves the divide in place. The research points to a better way: shaping situations, asking rather than guessing, listening to understand, exchanging stories and working towards shared goals."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

See how us and them forms, and widen your circle
Ask and listen across difference instead of guessing
Hold a hard conversation safely, with firm lines and a way out
Build bridges between groups, and repair when things go wrong

The science behind it

What you'll learn

Cohen's situation-crafting and why us versus them is mostly a search for belonging
Perspective-getting, motivational-interviewing listening and receptiveness
Grant's scientist mode and how to complexify a charged issue
Story exchange, shared goals and what the contact research really shows

What's included

Everything you get

28 tools across 7 modules, 14 of them built for this course
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool and a course audio guide
Private fillable workbooks for every tool, kept on your own device

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For anyone who lives, studies or works across difference: students and residence leaders, teachers, managers and teams, faith communities, families with different views, and community builders.

Many of the conversations that matter most cross a line. A companion to Geoffrey L. Cohen's Belonging, with Adam Grant's Think Again, this course shows how us and them forms, how to ask rather than guess, how to think again together, how to hold hard conversations and exchange stories across the divide, and how to build bridges that last, with firm lines where dignity is at stake.

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Stay curious and connected across race, language, politics and belief, without giving up what you believe

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