Braver Angels Workshop: Families and Politics: How to Talk with Loved Ones When We Disagree

Family relationships are becoming casualties of our toxic political environment. Family members are having heated political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships. If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your values and political beliefs, this workshop will offer you:

Insight into why family differences over politics are uniquely challenging
recognition of common roles that family members play in political conversations (for example, the Gladiator, the Defender, and the Sniper)
and strategies and skills for handling family political differences in a constructive way.

Although the focus is on family relationships, you can use learnings in this workshop with any loved one.

You’ll laugh and have some fun in this workshop—it won’t be all serious. After all, we all come from quirky families. Our workshop facilitator is Kali Kucera, a certified Braver Angles moderator and co-chair of the Memphis Chapter of Braver Angels.

Sign up by October 14 to reserve your spot (lunch will be provided) at tinyurl.com/GSLBraverAngelsOct2024.

October 20, 12 to 3:45 p.m.
Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Trezevant Hall

Our workshop facilitator is Kali Kucera, a certified Braver Angels moderator and co-chair of the Memphis chapter of Braver Angels. He has led workshops both in-person and online, both local and national in scope, since 2021, and spearheaded its national effort on development of interactive depolarization experiences (“games and exhibits”). He is a member of the Memphis Friends (Quakers).

Braver Angels is a national nonprofit with a mission to depolarize America. Its leadership is half “red” and half “blue.” Learn more at braverangels.org.