In this episode, we talk with Tania Israel, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, and author of the books Facing the Fracture and Beyond your Bubble. Israel’s focus is on navigating political division – both engaging with others and managing toxic, polarizing messaging, which can lead to distressing thoughts and feelings. This can help us re-engage with our community to move our society forward.
To learn more, go to TaniaIsrael.com.
Civity is a culture of deliberately engaging in relationships of respect and empathy with others who are different.
Our world today is one of haves and have-nots, insiders and outsiders, people who belong and people who are marginalized because they are other.
By reaching out person-to-person to others who are different, all of us together create the relational infrastructure to build solidarity, justice, and resilience in our communities.
Our differences are our strengths. This is ‘civity.’
Our podcast showcases interviews with people bridging power-based divides to move communities forward on issues grounded in inequities.
In this episode, we talk with Tania Israel, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, and author of the books Facing the Fracture and Beyond your Bubble. Israel’s focus is on navigating political division – both engaging with others and managing toxic, polarizing messaging, which can lead to distressing thoughts and feelings. This can help us re-engage with our community to move our society forward.
To learn more, go to TaniaIsrael.com.
