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3 Tools for Having Your Computer or Phone Read to You – Text-to-Speech

etweber@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:26:38 +0000

Every semester, I mention several tools in my classes that I get asked about time and again, so I decided to make a quick video about them. I explain that in the last 5 years, text-to-speech programs have revolutionized how I consume text and how I edit documents. Programs that can read to you allow […]

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Living Room Conversation Guide: Guns and Responsibility

Keiva Hummel — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:00:13 +0000

Living Room Conversation published the conversation guide, Guns and Responsibility, which was released October 2017. The guide gives pointers on how to hold living room conversations in order to develop a deeper understanding between participants around gun beliefs, gun safety, and responsible gun ownership. You can read the guide below, find a downloadable PDF here, or the original on Living Room Conversation’s site here. From the guide… Overview In Living Room Conversations, a small group of people (e.g. 4-7) people come together to get to know one another in a more […] Continue reading →

Home for the Holidays: Dialogue Across Divides Among Family and Friends

Keiva Hummel — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:30:07 +0000

Living Room Conversations released the guide, Home for the Holidays: Dialogue Across Divides Among Family and Friends, which we found Fall 2017 (original publish date unknown). The guide give excellent pointers on how to hold living room conversations with family members taking into consideration all the challenges that family can bring. You can read the guide below, find a downloadable PDF here or the original on Living Room Conversation’s site here. From the guide… This year we’ve been hearing from all sorts of people that they want […] Continue reading →

Civil Conversations Project

Keiva Hummel — Mon, 08 May 2017 15:10:11 +0000

The Civil Conversations Project seeks to renew common life in a fractured and tender world. We are a conversation-based, virtues-based resource towards hospitable, trustworthy relationship with and across difference. We honor the power of asking better questions, model reframed approaches to entrenched debates, and insist that the ruptures above the radar do not tell the whole story of our time. We aspire to amplify and cross-pollinate the generative new realities that are also being woven, one word and one life at a time. Better Conversations: […] Continue reading →

The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Keiva Hummel — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:05:36 +0000

The 300-page book, The World Cafe, was written by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs and published April 2005. In the first comprehensive book on the World Café, co-founders Brown and Isaacs introduce readers to this simple yet powerful conversational process for thinking together, evoking collective intelligence, and creating actionable results. Beautifully illustrated with stories contributed by World Café practitioners, this is still the most definitive compendium of Café Know-How available. Available in Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Simple Chinese, Complex Chinese, German, Korean, and Thai. Below is an […] Continue reading →

Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time

Keiva Hummel — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:00:26 +0000

The 342-page book, Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time, by Mary Gelinas, was published September 2016. In the book, Gelinas explains and guides you and your community in eight practices that are essential to creating effective dialogue and deliberation. Use it as a guidebook or training manual to enhance your own skills as you work with groups to address the issues they care about. From the book… We create the present and future in our meetings and conversations every day. What […] Continue reading →

The Danger of a Single Story

Keiva Hummel — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:00:07 +0000

The 18 min TedTalk, The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was filmed in July 2009. In the talk, Adichie shares what she calls, “the danger of a single story” and the false understandings that can arise when only the single side of a story is heard. Adichie shows the powerful opportunity of storytelling- to hear the many different sides of a story and have a more complete understanding of a person, a situation, a reality. Below is the full talk and a […] Continue reading →

Talking about . . . what’s next after the election?

Keiva Hummel — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:48:01 +0000

The article, Talking about . . . what’s next after the election? was posted on the Living Room Conversations site just before the US Election in Fall 2016. Living Room Conversations are a structured format of dialogue designed to hold space for participants across the ideological spectrum to come together and explore each other’s point of view. The original article can be found in full below and on Living Room Conversations’ site here. From the site… The presidential election brought attention to our political system… and […] Continue reading →

Talking to Your Kids This Election

Keiva Hummel — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:49:49 +0000

The article, Talking to Your Kids This Election, was written by John Sarrouf and published August 1, 2016 on Public Conversations Project‘s site. In the article, Sarrouf shares a conversation he and his daughter had about her anxieties this election, and showed her the power she had to share her voice and listen to experiences outside her own. While the conversation was held with his 8-year-old, the lessons drawn from it can be shared with young and old alike. Especially within the dialogue and deliberation field, […] Continue reading →

The Truth Telling Project

Keiva Hummel — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:30:40 +0000

The Truth Telling Project is a grassroots, community-based truth telling process that is designed to share the stories of Black people in the US and their experiences with police violence; and to address the legacies of racism in the US against Black people. The Truth Telling Project arose after the murder of Michael Brown and the lack of indictment of the police officer in his murder. It is a collaborative effort between “the Peace and Justice Studies Association, The Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at […] Continue reading →