…identities, shape individuals and embrace them. “Relationships” is the word that tries to capture the lived human experience: We exist in a world in which we are connected to and…
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A Divided Nation? The Civity Counter-Story
…there wasn’t a word for it, and we need words to tell a story. We also need actions to bring a story to life: a story that offers possibilities for…
Civity Dreams
…That’s respect – the root of the word coming from “spec,” as in spectacles, as in seeing. At the same time, the stories that we are hearing about others in…
Empathy and Infinity
Civity relationships are relationships of respect and empathy. Respect has always seemed straightforward to me. The root of the word – the Latin “spec” – means “to see”: To respect…
Civity: Dancing to Change
At Civity, we are about cultural change. We use the word “civity” to describe the particular change that we want to see: a culture based in positive relationships across difference….
Belonging Is
…person.” These two flat, ordinary words draw no lines; they create no categories. It is because of these two words that the message of this quote, of this promise, sounds…
Column: Civity — the Gift that Keeps Giving
…for our civility quiver. It’s a process called Civity, a word with Latin roots, defined as a culture of deliberately engaging in relationships of respect and empathy with others who…