October 10, 2023 Exploring “The End of American Democracy?” – 3 DIY Facilitation Plans Use these three DIY facilitation plans to organize your own small-group exploratory discussions to explore "The End of American Democracy?" What would it look like if American democracy were to come...
October 10, 2023 The End of American Democracy: Key Themes and Questions for Exploration The End of American Democracy? Key Themes and Questions for Exploration We started 2023 with a three-part community conversation series exploring what it might look like if democracy were to come...
October 5, 2023 Just Imagine…the Heroism of Giving Hope The Tsukamoto family had lost all hope. They owned a grape farm near Sacramento, California. But, as a result of Executive Order 9066, one of the most despicable acts of...
September 28, 2023 Just Imagine… a Transition of Consciousness In 1903 Virginia Durr was born in Birmingham, Alabama. While she, as a White woman, grew up under the care of an African-American nanny, she was also raised to believe...
September 24, 2023 Collaborative Goal Setting Working together to set achievable goals using an adapted SMART process Dear collaborative discussion friends, This week we are highlighting one of the new activities added to the updated toolkit. This activity...
September 21, 2023 Who are We The People — and who is being pushed out? A Community Conversation Series Who is democracy for? In this discussion series, together we will explore who belongs as a full participant in American democracy – and who gets excluded. We’ll explore our questions...
September 21, 2023 Just Imagine…a Senator of Conscience George Norris was born in 1861 in Ohio. He was the eleventh child of largely poor and uneducated parents. He was able to rise above his start in life and...
September 14, 2023 Just Imagine…the Politicization of Science Trofim Lysenko was born to a peasant family in Ukraine in 1898. He developed an interest in agriculture and graduated from the Kyiv Agricultural Institute. His early interests were finding...
September 7, 2023 Just Imagine…the Neuroscience of Propaganda Until recently propaganda may have seemed like a matter of throwing mud at a wall to see what sticks. It was effective because financial support enabled a high-volume approach to...
