Navigating Divisive Conversations Workshop

Designed for anyone grappling with how to be a bridge-builder in their life, in what may be an otherwise divisive environment. The tools learned in this workshop can be applied wherever one has relationships: work, family, social media and beyond.

Duration: 2 hours long;
Where: ATX or via Zoom
When: Available on a rolling basis - Please see the link below to sign up!
Cost: $35*

*Please contact us if $35 is not doable. We are committed to working on a sliding scale to make this workshop accessible to all.

Facilitators’ Training

This is a full-day training designed for a small group of folks with a variety of facilitation experience. We contextualize the conversation-centered training to the specific needs of a given group. TCL provides a highly interactive environment to consider critical ways to set up a group dynamic and/or dialogue for success, deal with commonly feared obstacles and challenges and engage meaningful strategies. We apply these concepts to case studies and participants’ specific contexts and endeavors.

• Facilitators’ Post-Training Coaching
  Those who have completed TCL Facilitators’ Training are eligible to follow up by facilitating a TCL dialogue with the coaching and evaluative assistance of a TCL facilitator.

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Join A Dialogue

BridgeBuilders Lab is a division of The Church Lab (TCL), an organization centered on inter-religious dialogues. For over a decade, TCL has held these bi-weekly dialogues on an extensive array of topics, religious and non-religious. We operate on a long-term small group model so as to build the degree of trust and care necessary to tackle topics of great nuance. That said, we often welcome observers and participants who are seeking to practice applying the tools of dialogue in almost any of our sessions throughout the year. We utilize the focus of belief systems, including atheism or agnosticism, so as to centralize meaning making and how that lens so centrally influences how we understand any given topic in life. No need to be religious to belong in this environment! Please see our calendar to join in on upcoming interfaith dialouges (available online or in Austin, TX)!