Workshop: Talking About Facts

Newcomers to Crossing Party Lines often scratch their heads when they hear we discourage “an overreliance on facts to prove our points.” Returning members “get it” but are often unsure about how to respond to other people’s facts or even how to present their own facts in a way that aligns with the Crossing Party Lines approach to political conversations.

In this brand new workshop we’ll be introducing tips and best practices for talking about facts in a political conversation with people who view the issues from different perspectives than you. In the first half of the meeting we’ll explore our options when someone overwhelms us with their facts or says something that to our ears sounds blatantly false. Then, after a break we will practice ways to share our facts in a way that gets the listener curious rather than defensive.

ABOUT CPL Workshops

Get the training you need to effectively cross party lines.
Crossing Party Lines provides a series of FREE classes teaching the skills we use to talk across differences. We teach proven, science-based techniques to foster curiosity, invite listening, and connect across differences.

We designed these techniques based on recent discoveries in such fields as cognitive science, neurobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Because understanding the partisan brain is central to the work of Crossing Party Lines, our workshops cover both the skills and some of the basic science behind them.

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