Over the past few months we have conducted Civity workshops with people at some wonderful organizations! In these workshops, we provide ...

Fear seems to be everywhere. “Angry white men” fear becoming economically redundant. Black Americans fear police violence. Women fear sex...

By Claudia Cohen Claudia Cohen is Adjunct Faculty in the Social-Organizational Program & Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperat...

Many people have shared with us at Civity the Heineken ad showing people who were brought together to engage across difference over a bee...

Many of us came out of last year’s election season battered and bruised. It seemed that no matter who we voted for, many of us were (and ...

“Our belief is that civility doesn’t have to taste like broccoli,” said Jacob Hess, member of Living Room Conversations and Director of t...

The airwaves this summer and fall have been filled with division – as well as people clamoring to be heard. Civity’s message about the im...

Last spring Civity invited Bay Area leaders working for equity to a Civity Academy. Individuals from a range of organizations, including ...

Civity is helping people in Arlington, VA, learn how to facilitate complex and challenging discussions on race. Marty Swaim, co founder o...

“There are so many people that just want to be heard. They want to have a voice. They love their communities.” Vivek Patil, director of o...

By Mario Morino & Lowell Weiss, Leap of Reason One of the people who inspire us is Mario Morino, Chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partner...

Civity and the Civity Academy are grounded in cutting-edge research into how the actions of individuals can influence society – for the b...

Civity is on the move, bringing our work to communities! Our conversations with civic leaders – who are deeply concerned about the proble...

Conversations can be a first step to understanding another person, finding common ground, and beginning to work toward solutions to commu...

“We don’t basically talk about race,” says Marty Swaim, co-founder of Challenge Racism. “It’s the kind of thing where when the subject of...

The completion of the Civity Conversations Pilot Project and the Civity Launch late last spring provided a springboard for taking Civity ...

By Mariah Burton Nelson ​​Over the past 40 years, I’ve told whole hordes of people that I’m a lesbian. I now prefer to think of this as b...

(PHOTOS COURTESY: Angry Asian Man) A few weeks ago in San Francisco, “NO MORE CHINESE” graffiti appeared in the Portola district. Days la...

Snails and caterpillars - what do these have to do with privilege? And what do they have to do with Civity?! The short video "Sometimes Y...

A Civity Conversation is a valuable tool for “connecting through difference.” People who care about their community contact someone in th...