Late last summer, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute (WRI) in Conway County, Arkansas, hired Essential Partners to offer two days of facilitation training to their program officers.
Urged on by their member of congress and state delegates, a group of six faith leaders in Howard County, Maryland contacted Essential Partners to support a series of dialogues about Race, Faith, an
When people in our communities feel that their views are being ignored because of who they are, our communities grow more divided across lines of identification and identity.
We don’t usually think of data as a roadblock to productive discourse. We can take it for granted that the world is objective and measurable, and that everyone sees what we see.
Can you make space in your class for students to develop a conviction—understand what they believe and why and be willing to share it—and at the same time invite them to hold those convictions with
The subject of guns in America lends itself to strong emotion and great strife, especially in the face of continued mass shootings.
The question was: what is at the heart of the matter for you when you think about the question of whether guns should be allowed in schools? Seven people ranging in age from their 20’s to
Name-calling. Insults. Hate speech. Fake news. A relentless 24-hour partisan spin cycle.
