Skills for Disagreeing Better – Braver Angels Workshop

Join The Basilica Imago Dei team as we proclaim 2025-2026 a boundary-less and bountiful season, starting with a workshop on January 10 at The Basilica School, from Braver Angels of Minnesota.

Skills for Disagreeing Better

Braver Angels Workshop

Saturday, January 10, 8:30 am – 10:30 am

The Basilica School, Room LL7

In this skills-building workshop, participants learn about the values and concerns of those who differ from them politically and teaches four practical skills for communicating across differences and finding common ground, enhancing your ability to engage in civil discourse.

In this polarized time, we lack basic understanding of why people on the other political side hold their beliefs. We don’t see them as they see themselves–their core values and central concerns–but instead as we choose to see them. We are tempted to regard our own side as principled and the other side as self-interested. When we try to communicate across this gap, we often lack the skills for listening carefully, looking for common ground, and sharing our perspectives in ways that connect rather than create more misunderstanding. We can learn to disagree better in polarized times, which means accurately seeing where we differ and where we share common ground.

Goals

• More understanding of the values and concerns of people who differ from you politically
• Better skills for listening in a way so that the other person feels heard
• Better skills for sharing viewpoints in a way the other person might hear — even if they disagree

Join Basilica parishioners who seek to build bridges across difference.

Register

Contact Janice for more information.