Building Together 2024 - Practice Guide Resources
Practice Guide Resources
Setting Your Intentions | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
Setting Your Intentions
Meditation
- From Mindful Movement: Guided Meditation for Setting Intentions
Resources
- From Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), Peace and Security Funders Group and the Council on Foundations: Social Cohesion Primer
- From Interfaith America and the Ad Council: Assessing Your Inner Bridge Builder
Day One Resources
Meditations
- From UCLA Health: Nine-minute loving kindness meditation
- From Mindful Harlem: 15-minute love and kindness meditation
- Additional meditations from Mindful Harlem, some available in Spanish
Resources
- From Einhorn Collaborative: A Call to Connection: Rediscovering the Transformative Power of Relationships
- From Greater Good Science Center: Bridging Differences Playbook
Day Two Resources
Meditations
- From Cornell Health: Grounding and calm meditation
- From Johns Hopkins Medicine: Somatic practice options
Resources
- Quick Reads
- From Independent Sector: Interview with Romanita Hairston
- Listen
- From CBS News: Interview with David Brooks
- From A Braver Way Podcast: Mónica Guzmán and David Brooks How can we cure our social blindness?
- Explore
- From Mónica Guzmán: I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
- From David Brooks: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- From Resetting the Table: A process called Life Maps, in which participants exchange formative life experiences as a foundation for engaging in more charged conversations across differences
- From Interfaith America: Shared Values Facilitation Guide
- From The People’s Supper
Day Three Resources
Meditations
- From UCLA Health: Self-Compassion meditation
- From Mindful Harlem (find a spot where you’re comfortable closing your eyes and moving during this meditation): Walking meditation
Resources
- Watch
- From People's Action: Sulma Arias on the organizing revival
- From StoryCorps’ One Small Step: About the Initiative
- Quick Reads
- Explore
- From the Rural-Urban Bridge Initiative: The Rural-Urban Divide: A Guidebook to Understanding the Problem and Forging Solutions
- From the Othering and Belonging Institute: Narrative Power
- From Resetting the Table: PURPLE, a film and discussion guide
- From Convergence Center for Policy Resolution: Collaborative Problem Solving
Day Four Resources
Meditations
- From Greater Good in Action: Meditation for practicing gratitude
- From Haven Inspired: Five-minute gratitude practice
- From Insight Timer: Meditation exploring commitment
Resources
- Quick Read
- From Layla Zaidane: Young Candidates Running in the 2022 Midterms Could Reshape US Politics
- From Wendy Feliz: To Bridge Our Division, We Must Overcome the Zero-Sum Mindset
- Listen
- From On Being with Krista Tippett: Interview with Amanda Ripley
- From The Hopeful Majority Podcast with Manu Meel: Interview with Layla Zaidane
- From TED Talk: Crossing Borders: The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants, with Ali Noorani
- Explore
- From Amanda Ripley: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
- From the American Immigration Council: Belonging Barometer Report