Let's Talk: Civil Discourse Workshop
Thu, Nov 21
|Location provided upon RSVP
BCHRTF will be sponsoring a civil discourse workshop to help our neighbors and community members learn to communicate with one another about hard topics in a way that is both respectful and productive. Open to all, but requires an RSVP.
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2019, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location provided upon RSVP, Sandpoint, ID, USA
Guests
About the Event
The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force is concerned about the divisions in our community that seem to keep growing wider -- and we are looking for ways to bring people together.
We all have different beliefs and varying opinions about important issues. That is as it should be in a country like ours where this is not only accepted but valued. The conflicts and divisiveness come from the assumptions we make about people whose ideas are different than our own. What makes it even worse is the labels we use to describe those people-- labels like right wing, left wing, redoubter, liberal, radical, snowflake and RINO. etc. We use those labels because we don’t really know each other. We assume that our values are different because our opinions are not the same.
Although our opinions vary, the BCHRTF thinks that we actually share some of the same values. We…