Empower your students to turn polarization into innovation.
This semester, will you send your students out into the world to have powerful conversations?
Transform campus discourse
Our culture has become increasingly polarized around issues like climate change, diversity, and immigration. We design and implement institution-wide programs and interventions to transform campus discourse around polarizing issues.
We develop higher education programming for emerging leaders to create change while supporting personal and community flourishing.
Free curriculum for educators
We offer free higher education curriculum that empowers students to make progress in their relationships, organizations, and communities. Faculty at pilot programs including Cornell, the University of Michigan, MIT, and DePaul guide students through challenging conversations with structured reflection.
“As an instructor, I am continually impressed by the boldness of students willing to engage in conversations on what are frequently uncomfortable or deeply personal issues with friends and loved ones.”Dr. Jess Vogt, Assistant Professor, DePaul University
“While I teach Breaking Through Gridlock, I encourage my students to take on any avoided, stalled, or frustrating conversation in their lives around something that’s most meaningful to them. The topics of these conversations range greatly, from talking with a roommate about keeping a clean apartment, to discussing politics or the Black Lives Matter movement with family, even tackling disagreements about how to best raise their own child.”
What you receive
Qualified educators and community organizers receive our Curriculum Resources Package, a free coaching conversation for classroom integration, and a free exam copy of the Breaking Through Gridlock book via publisher Berrett-Koehler.
Curriculum Resource Package includes:
- Suggested timelines and syllabi for four course formats (semester, quarter, one week, workshop)
- Discussion questions, worksheets, and assignments
- Pedagogy teaching tips from pilot faculty
- Slide decks
- Annotated bibliography
- Booklet of exercises from the Breaking Through Gridlock book
- Live-response (PollEverywhere) implementation guidance
- Student and faculty reflections and testimonials
- Supporting resources: books, articles, videos, and media
Taught and piloted at leading institutions
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