Sustained Dialogue Institute: The Sustained Dialogue Institute helps people to transform conflictual relationships and design change processes around the world, and to improve community capacity to engage differences as strengths while helping people move from dialogue to action.

Not So Fast: This campaign aims to empower, educate and inspire everyone to slow down and take the time to question, analyze, and verify the news and social media they encounter, and to instill confidence in fact-based inquiry, civil discussion, and curiosity to become responsible digital citizens.

Living Room Conversations: Healing divides starts with conversation, and this website provides a conversational model developed by dialogue experts to facilitate connection between people despite their differences. Explore current topics of conversation and join and upcoming online conversation event to experience it for yourself.

#ListenFirst Coalition: The National Conversation Project—an  overarching collaborative platform powered by the ~250 organizations in the Listen First Coalition—is designed to reach farther and impact greater than any one organization by aggregating, aligning, and amplifying the many conversation efforts already underway while welcoming more Americans into conversations. National Conversation Project promotes National Weeks of Conversation, #ListenFirst Fridays, and any conversation inviting people of different perspectives to revitalize America together.

Everyday Democracy: Everyday Democracy supports organizing across the country by bringing diverse groups of people together, helping them structure and facilitate community dialogue on pressing issues, and training them to use a racial equity lens to understand longstanding problems and possible solutions. 

Civic Dinners: Civic Dinners help bring people together to have conversations that matter by transforming dinner tables into forums for positive social change. By providing a simple framework for conversations that matter, anyone, anywhere, can use Civic Dinners as a tool for organizing and action.

How to Avoid a Food Fight at Thanksgiving: While the holidays are a time for family gatherings, sharing and giving, they often bring out tensions and disagreements between friends and loved ones. So the National Institute for Civil Discourse created these tips to help keep things civil during the holidays — and the rest of the year.

On Being Civil Conversations Project: The Civil Conversations Project is an evolving adventure in audio, events, resources, and initiatives for planting relationship and conversation around the subjects we fight about intensely — and those we’ve barely begun to discuss.

Make Shift Coffee House: Bridging the political divide with coffee, music, and face-to-face conversation, the purpose of Make Shift Coffee House is to understand each other's political views, and hang out. Check out their website to learn more about how you can host a Make Shift Coffee House.

Braver Angels: Braver Angels is a New York-based 501 nonprofit dedicated to political depolarization. The organization runs workshops, debates, and other events where "red" and "blue" participants attempt to better understand one another's positions and discover their shared values.

Family Conflict: How to Navigate Political Conversations: Interested in learning more about how to have productive conversations around difficult topics with family members? This article offers excellent advice.

Lunch & Learn with Gleaves Whitney: Lisa Perhamus: Gleaves Whitney is joined by Dr. Lisa Perhamus, director of Grand Valley State University's Padnos/Sarosik Civil Discourse Program, to discuss ways to create spaces that spark civil discourse. (The audio is a little choppy to start, but it does smooth out.)

Grooving on Civil Discourse at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table: Check out this great podcast about engaging in civil discourse with family members around the holidays.

TED Talk: 3 Ways to Practice Civility by Steven Petrow: What does it mean to be civil? Journalist Steven Petrow looks for answers in the original meaning of the word, showing why civility shouldn't be dismissed as conversation-stifling political correctness or censorship. Learn three ways we can each work to be more civil -- and start talking about our differences with respect.

TED Talk: 10 Ways to have a better conversation by Celeste Headlee: When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations.

TED Talk: How common threats can make common (political) ground by Jonathan Haidt. If an asteroid were headed for Earth, we'd all band together and figure out how to stop it, just like in the movies, right? And yet, when faced with major, data-supported, end-of-the-world problems in real life, too often we retreat into partisan shouting and stalemate. Jonathan Haidt shows us a few of the very real asteroids headed our way -- some pet causes of the left wing, some of the right -- and suggests how both wings could work together productively to benefit humanity as a whole.

TED Talk: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives by Jonathan Haidt. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.