1. Thursday, May 24th at 2:00pm ET/1:00pm CT
Transforming and Connecting Communities through Radical Listening and Vulnerability
Thursday, May 24th at 2:00pm ET/1:00pm CT

2. Goals:
Share What We Have Learned about Healing and Support As We Connect and Transform Communities Across Political Difference (And Learn from You)
Build Deeper Partnerships
Connect and break the isolation
Housekeeping: Please leave us comments, thoughts, reflections and questions in the comments. We will have a Q&A portion at the end of the webinar to try to address as many of them as possible!

3. We’re Esteniolla & Carlos!

4. Youth on Board

6. POLL TIME!

7. Have you...
Unfriended a friend or family member from social media since the 2016 election?

8. Have you ever...
Automatically decided you didn’t like someone because of something they said or something they believe?

9. Do you...
Have a friend who talks all the time and doesn’t listen… or maybe YOU’RE that friend? ;-)

10. Our Hope Make Space for Baggage
Create Cultures of Empathy and Kindness
Practice and Use Radical Listening and Vulnerability
Connect and Transform Communities

11. What We’ve Figured Out
Meaningful & Mutual listening allows us to heal so that we can connect, build relationships and make change in the world.

12. What do we mean by SUPPORT?

13. LAUGH & PLAY

14. LAUGH AND PLAY...
ARE essential components of being human no matter your age!

15. HOW many of you start or end your meetings with a game?
LAUGH AND PLAY...
HOW many of you start or end your meetings with a game?

16. LAUGH AND PLAY...
PARTNER TAG
WHERE THE WIND BLOWS

17. LAUGH AND PLAY... Takeaway
Try starting your next organizing meeting, community forum or event with a game.

18. APPRECIATIONS

19. APPRECIATIONS
Help us remember our significance (not just the significance of our work) and the significance of others.

20. APPRECIATIONS
Popcorn Style
Circle
Spotlight

21. APPRECIATIONS Takeaway
Pick one person you appreciate but have never let them known directly. Let them know why you appreciate them.

22. RADICAL LISTENING

23. Guidelines for Listening
Look like you care about or like the person
Remember the goodness of the person
Listen warmly
Confidentiality

24. GUIDELINES FOR LISTENING PARTNERSHIPS
Pick a person and share equal time
Determine turns for speaker and listener
No advice
Practice radical vulnerability
Confidentiality

25. LISTENING PARTNERSHIPS
Takeaway
Put the timer on, and do a listening partnership with 1 person this week. Share equal time, and trust that they can handle listening to you. Don’t give advice.

26. More Downloadable Resources:

27. BANDWIDTH
The more you seek and give support, the more bandwidth you’ll have to foster empathy, kindness and listening in your communities.

28. How do we put this into ACTION?

29. ABCs, it’s easy as…
Affirm
Bridge
Connect

30. ROLE
PLAY!

31. Esteniolla and Carlos modelling the ABC during a Deep Canvass training
DEEP CANVASSING
PICTURE OF US DOING IT
Esteniolla and Carlos modelling the ABC during a Deep Canvass training

32. LISTENING PROJECTS
PICTURE OF US DOING IT

33. PICTURE OF US DOING IT
HEALING CIRCLES

34. ACTION IN THE COMMUNITY
Takeaway
Listen to one person a week about any topic you care about without interrupting them and practice sharing your perspective using the ABC.

35. DEEPER PARTNERSHIP APPLY TO ATTEND A NATIONAL TRAINING
CONSIDER A LISTENINGWORKS PARTNERSHIP

36. THANK YOU THANK YOU
THANK YOU

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@youthonboard
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38. QUESTIONS?