LRC in Communities

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Learn how to leverage the power of dialogue. We train schools, libraries, faith communities, civic groups, and community organizations with healthy communication skills to transform your organization.

Collaboration and connection are critical to working together. Research shows regular use of our conversation format fosters social cohesion, positioning groups to increase their capacity for problem-solving.

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Strengthen your community and relationships
Reduce conflict and polarization

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Education
Libraries
Faith
Civic & Community Groups
Youth Council
Workplaces

Education

  • Equip the rising generation with conversation skills and build a school culture of belonging
  • Embed healthy communication practices into curriculum, student groups, programming, and parent/community engagement
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Libraries

  • Deepen your library’s role as an inclusive and engaging community center
  • Implement a plug and play dialogue program into your library’s existing programming
  • Recommended by the American Library Association (ALA)

Faith

  • Create an inclusive, compassionate, and affirming faith community
  • Use conversation to explore the divinity of every individual
  • Use conversation to acknowledge unique
  • Better way to engage around hot topics while preserving connection

Civic and Community Groups

  • Add civil discourse to strengthen your mission and impact
  • Increase civic engagement and address community issues

Youth Council

  • High school and early college students are invited to apply
  • Adapt conversation guides for a youth audience, work with national partners, and organize conversation events
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Workplaces

  • Improve communication, collaboration, and create a more open and productive workplace culture
  • Provide professional development for your employees
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testimonials

Estes Valley Restorative Justice Partnership

"LRCs are a great way to engage, promote discussion and learn what is important to those we serve. We've learned a great deal about what people in our community want, value and look forward to as a result of hosting small, local LRCs. We see LRC as a great framework to build comfort with dialogue and build local capacity for deliberative engagement."

East Hartford Public Library

"[Conversation participants] connected on a very deep level in the conversation, and afterward stuck around and people were talking. One of the participants, an elderly Japanese woman, mentioned that she was trying to get a group of people together to clean up litter along the river in the park. People shared their emails with her to be added to her list to pick up litter. I thought, 'What a great outcome!'

Student leaders from North Carolina State University

“I am definitely seeing [our] goal being accomplished, bringing people together that have differing ideas on a topic, and I'm seeing that ability to find common ground amongst a lot of different divides in society. [I have observed] some really powerful moments in these conversations that [finding common ground] was actively happening.”

Mecklenburg Interfaith Network

“It was a great opportunity to build bridges and remove stereotypes in our diverse city.”

Kansas City Public Library

“The timed rounds, shared knowledge baseline, and provided questions really took the stress out of the event for both the facilitator and the participants. The event brought together people from a variety of backgrounds and generated wonderful ideas and feedback.”

Brigham Young University Student

“I learned so much! Even things I plan to incorporate into my life now, and it opened a night long convo with my roommate who came with me, who brought up experiences I didn't know she had. ”

A Novel Experience Book Store

“Three of our participants reached under their jackets, and put their handguns on the table–to laughter and some wide-eyed astonished gasps of others. But you know what happened is what happens every time: At the close, we did indeed have common opinions on some facets of the subject.”

Faith Leader

“As a priest, spiritual director, and conflict coach, Living Room Conversations help me support faith communities in our sacred work of increasing understanding and building peace, one conversation at a time.”

Charleston County Public Library

“... I was thrilled afterward. The looks on people's faces were great, it was clear that people were learning, and were being open. This was like a breath of fresh air for me.”

East Hartford Public Library

“Probably the most exciting development is that we had Living Room Conversations provide training for our staff and community partners, including a few community members who had participated in our first round of conversations [that] were interested in learning more about becoming hosts and being more engaged. Out of that training, our East Hartford Works Resident Advisory Committee partner started hosting their own conversations. They began to offer conversations in various locations, so we weren't the only game in town anymore. It [has] become a more diffuse project.”

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