Civil discourse allows conversations around conflicting values and diverse perspectives (Practice C2) to persist until better understanding is achieved. It honors the place of others as equal members of a shared community. As journalist Malcolm Glover says in this TED Talk, recognizing that “the ‘I’ is a part of the ‘We’” is central to the task of identifying innovations in an increasingly interconnected world.
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A return to civil discourse
Video
11 minutes
By: Malcolm Glover, TEDx
Educator-prep | Leader-prep
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?
Article
10 minutes
By: New York Times, Nicholas Kristof
Empathy in designing solutions
Video
2 minutes
By: IDEO
Taking multiple perspectives
Video
3 minutes
By: Cultivating Leadership
New spaces, new perspectives
Video
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Civil discourse and difficult decisions
Tool
10 minutes
By: United States Courts