On Wednesday, November 8th, from 6-8 PM students are invited to Klingenstein Lounge for the second in a four-part Ask Big Questions Campus Conversations (ABQ) series.
Students will share a catered HOLIDAY-STYLE dinner and engage in a guided dialogue surrounding the question “How do we disagree?”.
Ask Big Questions’ three part model is deceptively simple, yet radically transformative:
1) Ask: How do you feel about interpersonal conflict?
2) Share: Participants share their individual stories surrounding their experience of disagreement-- both painful experiences and productive ones.
3) Do: Individuals create action steps for themselves and the larger community, based in their experience during the conversation.
Utilizing this model, ABQ participants engage in healthy, listening-focused and empathetic conversations about questions of meaning and values stretching beyond religion, politics, ethnicity, regionalism, and nationalism. ABQ creates a brave space for students to participate in deep reflection and active listening; resulting in an increased investment in the well-being of others across lines of difference. In fact 94% of participants in ABQ conversations report feeling more connected to their community after just one conversation.
What happens when we really listen to each other? We bridge community-eroding divides. We become healthier as individuals and communities. We take responsibility for and civic action on behalf of an expanded our definition of OUR community.
For more information, contact Lauren Goldberg (lgoldberg2@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3323).
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Individuals requiring accommodations, please contact Lauren Goldberg (lgoldberg2@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3323). We respectfully ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
