Expanding Empathy with Living Room Conversations ft. Joan Blades Purposeful Empathy Hosted by Anita Nowak

Watch this episode to hear a passionate progressive political
activist make the case for listening to "both sides."


Joan Blades is the co-founder of LivingRoomConversations.org, an
open-sourced effort to build respectful connections across
ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core
shared values. In this episode, she explains why she felt
compelled to launch this latest start-up (she also co-founded
MomsRising.org & MoveOn.org) and describes the power of
dialogue. She also shares how she’s forged many surprising
friendships across the divides.


00:00 Introduction


00:23 About Joan Blades


01:53 What is a "living room conversation”?


04:43 How to change people's minds?


06:31 Who participates in "living room conversations” and how
does it work?


10:02 Joan’s backstory


14:00 Building bridges across the political left and right


15:45 The impact of social media on political polarization


17:47 Exploring “The Power of Empathy” as one topic for a "living
room conversation"


21:31 How has Joan’s activism impacted her personally?


25:26 Differences and similarities of values among political
divides


26:56 Potential applications of "living room conversations"


33:24 Joan Blades’ Purposeful Empathy story





CONNECT WITH JOAN BLADES


Website LivingRoomConversations.org


TED Talk
https://livingroomconversations.org/video/lrc-at-ted-free-yourself-from-your-filter-bubbles/


Forgiveness conversation highlights
https://livingroomconversations.org/video/forgiveness-living-room-conversations-highlights/





CONNECT WITH ANITA


Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com


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Video edited by David Tsvariani