How can we connect meaningfully across profound differences with people?     

This is one of the most important questions of our challenging times. In everyday life and on global social media there are vast chasms of understanding about critical life-changing issues. Different groups, locally and across the world, seem to be meaning-making from completely different data sets, filters and evidences – and acting according to the world view and conclusions they have reached.     

Is it possible to build connections and enriched overlaps of understanding about what is happening in terms of the crises and conflicts we face, and the types of collective collaborations for solutions we need, with people running very different mindsets?       

Can we also do this in our personal lives, at home and at work, with our own troubling interpersonal conflicts, misunderstandings, and fallouts?