Seeking healthy conversations amidst a bitterly divided world
Past Speakers, Books, and Other Resources
Resources
Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be facilitated by organizational development professionals.
The most significant finding from Brené’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. The Dare to Lead™ program focuses on developing these courage-building skills through workshops, trainings, and coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.
Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
Past Speakers
Priya Parker | Author
Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters and the host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Parker has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.
Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Values Council and the New Models of Leadership, and a Senior Expert at Mobius Executive Leadership. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. His honors include the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, and Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he holds the degrees of MTS and JD from Harvard University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, and DCL from Oxford University, as well as twenty-one honorary degrees.
Dr. Cornel West | Professor
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Robert P. George | Professor
Author of "You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters,” Kate Murphy is a Houston, Texas–based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Economist, Agence France-Presse, and Texas Monthly. From “You’re Not Listening:"
“At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.
On social media, we shape our personal narratives.
At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians.
We’re not listening.
And no one is listening to us.
Despite living in a world where technology allows constant digital communication and opportunities to connect, it seems no one is really listening or even knows how. And it’s making us lonelier, more isolated, and less tolerant than ever before. A listener by trade, New York Times contributor Kate Murphy wanted to know how we got here.”
Kate Murphy | Author
RESOURCES AND PROGRAMS FOR DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
The Diocese is compiling and developing resources to help communities navigate difficult conversations. Below you will find external programs we will directly work with. Our Recommended Resources page even offers more. In addition to these, there are other exciting programs and resources to be added frequently. Videos, webinars, tools, articles, podcasts, and workshops will be offered.
Building Bridges Now
The Building Bridges Now dialogue sessions are intended to be a cohesive dialogue program inviting participants to commit to recurring sessions covering topics such as Race and Children, Race and Privilege, Black Lives Matter, Race and Immigration, Stop and Frisk, Stand Your Ground, etc.
Fierce Conversations
A program to help transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across. In this book and program, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to:
• Overcome barriers to meaningful communication
• Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family
• Increase clarity and improve understanding
• Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table
• Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep level
Braver Angels
Braver Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. In the fall, EDOT will work closely with Braver Angels to provide an on the ground training and experience for churches interested in exploring deep conversation and relationship.
Recommended Resources
A COLLECTION OF REALLY REALLY GREAT EXTERNAL RESOURCES
“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.”
— Matthew 5:44-46
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
connected@epicenter.org
Phone
(713) 520-6444