{"id":3471,"date":"2018-03-29T16:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/?post_type=podcast&p=3471"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:38:52","slug":"living-room-conversations-can-a-new-parlor-game-heal-the-divide","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/podcast\/living-room-conversations-can-a-new-parlor-game-heal-the-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Room Conversations: Can A New \u201cParlor\u201d Game Heal the Divide?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen to the podcast here<\/a><\/h2>\n

A Conversation With Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades<\/h3>\n

\u201cWhen we connect personally, we don\u2019t take things poisonally.\u201d \u2014 Swami Beyondananda<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you know (From the Living Room Conversations website) \u2026 \u201cLiving rooms used to be the place where people would gather to socialize and relate with each other. Inviting someone into your home was to treat them as valued and worthy of respect. But before they were called living rooms these rooms were referred to as \u201cparlors\u201d \u2013 a term that comes from the French and means place for speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a time when there\u2019s been precious little civil discourse \u2014 let alone civic discourse \u2014 can transpartisan \u201cliving room conversations\u201d heal the divide?<\/p>\n

Joan Blades, co-founder of the very partisan MoveOn.org thinks so.<\/p>\n

In 2010, she and conservative colleagues founded Living Room Conversations to \u201cre-humanize\u201d the other side (whichever side the other side is to you) by sharing stories and personal connections, and then discussing otherwise divisive issues together. Joan herself had a profound awakening in 2007 when she connected with Christian Coalition\u2019s communication director Michele Combs at a retreat. The two became friends, and together the two organizations \u2014 MoveOn.org and the Christian Coalition \u2014 became unlikely partners in a successful campaign to preserve net neutrality.<\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s Wiki Politiki, Joan talks about the promise and the challenges of Living Room Conversations, and shares her own journey that took her from law school to a successful Silicon Valley start-up, to founding MoveOn, a pioneer organization in using the internet and social media for political campaigns.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re curious \u2014 or skeptical \u2014 about civil discourse being able to breach what seem to be not only different viewpoints, but different realities, you\u2019ll want to hear what Joan has to say. These conversations may not change people\u2019s minds but it might change hearts \u2014 and that\u2019s where real change must take place as we evolve into political (and spiritual) maturity.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the original podcast at the Wiki Politiki website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-3471","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingroomconversations.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}