Transcend and transform
When I was part of the learning at THNK, one of my instructors was Kaz Brecher. The daughter of two rocket scientists, and herself a filmmaker and facilitator, she brings incredible intelligence and creativity to the world around her. Today online she shared about the Better Arguments project.
One of the things they've created is the "Principles for Better Arguments," shared below.
It reminds me of some of the work I've helped shared before, which comes from my colleague Ceri Rees, via the Justice Institute of BC. It's a diagram showing how we can move together from disagreement into solution-finding.
As you can see, at each mountain-top lies our positions. Our viewpoints on the issue at hand, they differ. While we can't cross any sort of bridge to each other's summits, we can instead descend into each other's interests. This means asking each other questions about what is behind each other's positions. "Tell me why you came to have that stance," you might say. Or, "I'm curious what inte…
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