Beyond Your Bubble

How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work

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Pub Date 11 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 22 Jan 2021

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Description

This practical, politically neutral book offers concrete skills for holding meaningful conversations that cut across today's intense political divide, showing readers how to connect to the people in their lives.  
 

Political polarization is at an all-time high, and the consequences for our personal relationships are significant. Many people have friends and family members with whom they feel they can no longer communicate because of their extreme political views. In this book, psychologist Tania Israel presents her program for helping people have meaningful, constructive conversations with those they disagree with politically.   
 

Chapters show readers how to develop and use the scientifically-proven skills that are the foundation of constructive conversation, including strategies for effective listening, managing emotions, and understanding someone else’s perspective, as well as finding common ground, avoiding self-righteousness, and telling your own story. Throughout, conversation prompts, practical exercises, case examples, and self-quizzes help readers visualize and practice starting, sustaining, and ending challenging conversations.  
 

Inspired by the author’s experience leading countless workshops to bridge common ground among members of her community, this book shows how we can reach across the divide and bring Americans together, one conversation at a time. 

This practical, politically neutral book offers concrete skills for holding meaningful conversations that cut across today's intense political divide, showing readers how to connect to the people in...


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To request a physical copy mailed to you, contact Jason Wells at jwells@apa.org.

To request a physical copy mailed to you, contact Jason Wells at jwells@apa.org.


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ISBN 9781433833557
PRICE $21.99 (USD)
PAGES 178

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