30 Nov 2025
Conflict Tools for a Fractured Democracy - NaPodPoMo 2025 Day 30
Day 30—the final episode of our 30-day journey into bridging our divides.
Over the last month, we’ve explored everything from navigating disinformation and polarization to building trust and transforming how we relate to one another. We’ve covered big challenges — and big ideas. And today, we’re closing out with something vital: practical exercises.
We’re joined once again by Guy and Heidi Burgess of Beyond Intractability. Guy walks us through a set of real-world conflict resolution exercises designed to help people manage deep political and moral disagreements more constructively — and with more respect.
Bridging isn’t just a concept. It’s something we do.And these skills help us take that first step.
And that’s a wrap on our NaPodPoMo 2025 challenge!Thirty episodes in thirty days.
Thank you for listening, for caring, and for joining me in this work of rebuilding trust — one conversation at a time.
A huge thank you to:
* Karissa Raskin (https://www.listenfirstproject.org/karissa-raskin) - CEO, Listen First Project
* Paul Resnick (https://www.si.umich.edu/people/paul-resnick) - Michael D Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information and Professor of Information, School of Information
* Kira Hamman (https://www.uraction.org/who-we-are/our-team) - Senior Director of Programs, Urban Rural Action
* Kamy Akhavan (https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-political-future/about-the-center/staff/kamy-akhavan-managing-director/) - Managing Director, the Center for the Political Future (CPF) at the University of Southern California
* Adam Mizel (https://www.us-united.org/#who-we-are-2) - Co-Founder & CEO, US United
* Mat Cotton (https://www.bahai.us/public-affairs/about-us/team/matthew-cotton-jr/) - US Bahai Office of Public Affairs Race Discourse Officer, Baha’is of the United States
* Melanie Trecek-King (https://thinkingispower.com/about/) - Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College and Creator of Thinking Is Power
* Tania Israel (https://taniaisrael.com/) - Professor, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology - UC Santa Barbera
* June Klees (https://juneklees.com/) - Historian and educator at Bay College in Michigan
* James Coan (https://www.morelikeus.org/cofounders) - Co-Founder and Executive Director, More Like Us
* Guy and Heidi Burgess (https://www.beyondintractability.org/moos/ghburgess) - Lifelong educators and conflict resolution pioneers, Co-Directors of the Conflict Information Consortium, Beyond Intractability (https://www.beyondintractability.org/), and the free BI Substack Newsletter (https://beyondintractability.substack.com/)
* Calista Small (https://moreincommonus.com/team/calista-small/) - Research Manager, More in Common
* Tim Jones (https://www.longertables.org/about) - Founder & Executive Director, Longer Tables
* Kate Ullman (https://legislativesemester.org/) - Executive Director, Legislative Semester; CoFounder and Chair, Wisconsin Civic Learning Coalition
* Lisa Swallow (https://crossingpartylines.com/about-crossing-party-lines/) - Co-Founder, Crossing Party Lines
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