Can We Talk?! - Building Relationships Through Difficult Conversations
Sunday April 7, 2024
1:00-5:00 pm
With Rabbi K’vod Wieder

Our country is more polarized than ever before over social and political issues that are important to us. Many of us struggle with how to engage in important conversations with people in our families and community with whom we disagree without devolving into frustration and disrespect. With a major election coming up this year, it’s critical that we gain the skills to communicate across differences so that our Temple Beth El SOC community relationships stay strong.  

This workshop offers communication skill-building for charged political conversations and a forum for dialogue across disagreement. Participants will exchange views and personal experiences, surface differences and commonalities,and practice communication skills for addressing differences directly and constructively. 

Rabbi K’vod has been engaging in a year-long training program with Resetting the Table, a national organization dedicated to helping communities develop the skills and capacities to have dialogue across differences to build greater understanding and connection. This session is an opportunity to experience their nationally recognized work.