Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart
Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart
by Diane Musho Hamilton & Kimbery Loh
Mondays, beginning January 30 via Zoom, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Kelly Lemens
Donation: $25
When a conversation takes a turn into the sometimes uncomfortable and often contentious topics of race, religion, gender, sexuality, and politics, it can be difficult to know what to say or how to respond to someone you disagree with. Compassionate Conversations empowers us to transform these conversations into opportunities to bridge divides and mend relationships by providing the basic set of conflict resolution skills we need to be successful, including listening, reframing, and dealing with strong emotions. Exploring topics like social privilege, power dynamics, and, political correctness, the authors offer practices and reflections to help us feel more prepared to talk through polarizing issues, ultimately encouraging us to take risks, to understand and recognize our deep commonalities, to be willing to make mistakes, and to become more intimate with expressing our truths, as well as listening to those of others.