Clashing opinions and growing contradictions are often accompanied by all sorts of labels and value judgments. Before you know it, you're labeled woke or regressive, a conspiracy thinker or a ‘sheep’, a climate activist or climate denier, and so on. Through these labels hostile us-them thinking can arise. How can we break through this, and continue to see each other as fellow human beings first during these polarizing times?
How will you survive the Holidays with that one uncle at the dinner table, with his extreme opinions on Israel and Gaza, whether flying to your holiday destination is still okay, or about Trump’s win? In the workshop How to deal with Polarization, you will receive tools to deal with divergent opinions. What exactly is polarization, where does it come from and how can you counter it yourself? And maybe more importantly; How can you hold a productive conversation with somebody whose motivations you already think to be set in stone? A crash-course just in time for the Holiday break.
The Humanistisch Verbond (Humanist Alliance), endorses principles such as believing in the power of human beings to make good choices, to question the truth and to work for a better world. The Workshop on how to deal with polarization is one example of that. the training will be given by Noortje Bot, who worked for several years as a lecturer at the School voor Humanistiek (School for Humanistics) in Utrecht and is now mainly active as a trainer.
This workshop is organized by Studium Generale
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Date: 10 December 2024
Time: 16:00-17:30 hrs (doors open 15:45 hrs.)
Location: T3-29 (Mandeville Building)
Moderation: Lenya SlierendrechtTicket information
Students only: 5 eurosOrganised by Studium Generale
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