Last month, Malka and Palma provided an online session on “How to Build Trust Across Difference in Your Community” to several dozen members of Welcoming America. Welcoming America, a long-time partner …
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Seven Ways to Slice & Dice the Us-vs-Them Bogeyman
This is a fun title for a serious blog. I hear a lot – all of us hear a lot – about the prevalence of Us-vs-Them dynamics. We as a …
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The Draw of the ALP Conference: Connection & Relationships
In July, Civity Co-Founder Malka and I had the opportunity to lead two Civity workshops in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Association of Leadership Programs National Conference. It was our …
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Civity Featured on PBS NewsHour
Civity’s relationship-building approach to increasing social trust is featured in a recent episode of the PBS NewsHour’s America at a Crossroads with Judy Woodruff. Woodruff and her team filmed a Civity workshop …
Civity Research Tells an Empowering Story
We are excited to announce two hot-off-the-presses Civity research publications: A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle that Underlies Healthy Communities, peer-reviewed Opinion Editorial in the April 2025 issue …
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Vision and Tenacity in Challenging Times
I recently spent a week with family in the Town of Ashland, Oregon. Ashland lies at the very southern end of the state, nestled between the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountain …
Civity in Action: Finding Connection in Everyday Life
In Civity workshops, we get a lot of questions about what civity looks like in “real life.” Sometimes we hear, “we all know that building connections across difference is important, …
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The “We the People” Mosaic
For a long time, I’ve been drawn to mosaics. I remember making a mosaic as an art project when I was a Camp Fire Girl – pushing tiny smooth stones …
Connected Communities: The Partnership Between Civity and the Center for Rural Affairs
It began with a community meeting in Hastings, Nebraska, in August of 2018. Since then the long-standing partnership between Civity and the Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA) has grown and …
As we hurtle toward the election, remember this…
At the end of September, I drove up to Lake Superior for a long weekend. The Ojibway/Anishinaabe, who lived in the region long before Europeans arrived, call it Gichigami. It is monumental, the …
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