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Goals and Strategies for Communicating Across the Political Divide

Goals: To draw the hate and anger out of political and religious disagreements with friends and relatives. To help those with whom I am in disagreement, feel validated and valued by me, even if I think they are really wrong or badly misinformed. People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but […]

Rules for Active Listening

Temporarily set aside your hostility and hurt, open your heart, in love and empathy if possible.  Assume that the other is a good person who happens to disagree with you. This not a debate.  There are other rules for that.  Look the other in the eye and nod your head in the affirmative every once in […]

“Communicating Across the Political Divide, Part One” Joanne Krettek

Few things get my blood boiling like hearing, “the 2020 election was rigged,Sleepy Joe Biden is a total disaster, the far left radicals love criminals but hatethe police, or illegal immigration is destroying America.” In one fell swoop,you have insulted my intellect, my judgment and my people. You havemisrepresented my viewpoint. You have questioned my […]