Difficult Conversations Workshop
September 20, 2021 @ 12:30PM — September 21, 2021 @ 1:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Workshop
This is a workshop held virtually over two days (each session is 2.5 hours) in conjunction with FAV's National Symposium and led by Kern Beare. Zoom meeting links will be sent to you through email 2 days before the event.
The first session will be Monday, September 20 from 12:30 pm-3:00 pm EST and the second session will take place Tuesday, September 21 from 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST. **Please plan to attend both workshops if you get a ticket.**
In Kern's own words, the purpose of his workshop is "to help people see that engaging people we disagree with is essential to our collective future, and that there’s a way to do so that’s creative, constructive, and sometimes transformative."
About Kern Beare:
Kern Beare is a former vice president of communications for a large technology firm in Silicon Valley, CA. After leaving the corporate world in 2005, he co-founded Global Mindshift, a non-profit offering online facilitated workshops on the essential skills we need to survive and thrive in today's interconnected and interdependent world. Kern is the founder of the Difficult Conversations Project, an initiative to help heal our current national divide. As part of that initiative, he travels the country leading a workshop entitled "Difficult Conversations: The art and science of thinking together."