Our Seeding Civity initiative is off to the races in our first partner community: Redwood City – home to around 86,000 residents and located 27 miles south of San Francisco. …
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Civity Update: Growing the Civity Counter-Story
I’m writing at my desk in San Francisco, where terrible fires have been burning just north of me over the last few weeks. I have been glued to the radio, …
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The Power of Civity: A Story with a Moral and More
Many of us are feeling powerless these days. We are overwhelmed by disturbing news stories and feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. Yet we also want to …
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How Complexity Makes Civity Clearer
By Daniel Friedman In everyday parlance, to describe a situation as “complex” is to deem it complicated, intractable, and unmanageable. Politicians might label an issue as “complex” if there is …
Silicon Valley’s Empathy Gap
By Daniel Harris Is Silicon Valley making the world a better place? In a piece recently published in CityLab, entitled What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get About People, Daniel Harris of …
A Divided Nation? The Civity Counter-Story
We at Civity, along with people throughout the country, were gripped by the events in Charlottesville. As in the wake of many disturbing events like this, we first reacted with …
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Civity Work: Grounded in Partnerships
Over the past few months we have conducted Civity workshops with people at some wonderful organizations! In these workshops, we provide simple and focused strategies for connecting with one another, …
Fear, Pill Bugs, and the Possibility of Trust
Fear seems to be everywhere. “Angry white men” fear becoming economically redundant. Black Americans fear police violence. Women fear sexual assault and marginalization. Immigrants fear being targeted and deported. Scientists …
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Everyday Dignity: An Illuminating Act of Justice
By Claudia Cohen Claudia Cohen is Adjunct Faculty in the Social-Organizational Program & Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at the Teachers College of Columbia University. …
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Telling the Civity Story: Heineken & Intentionality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-orjHsgxDQ Many people have shared with us at Civity the Heineken ad showing people who were brought together to engage across difference over a beer. This ad and others like …
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