WHO: You! And your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues!

WHEN: November 15, 1:00-5:00 pm (followed by Happy Hour!)

WHERE: Hotel Winters 12 Abbey Street, Winters, CA 95694

WHAT: The Science & Practice of Community-Building Across Our Differences: A 4-hour highly interactive and engaging program to learn, practice, and put into immediate use tools proven to create goodwill across differences. These universal skills are shown to reduce polarization. We’ll highlight local programs that bring people together, and how you can join them. Bring our community, workplaces, and families together, while having fun! Just in time for the holidays.

Co-produced by Winters Rotary Club, Berkeley Rotary Club, and Courageous Leadership and designed specifically for our community, you’ll experience the camaraderie and connection of Rotary and local partners. You’ll engage directly with the 93% of Americans who want less divisive talk and more positive action on local issues of shared concern. Participants report an overwhelming increase in a sense of belonging in community and country, and emerge more:

• hopeful and inspired,

• capable of creating goodwill and engaging across differences, and

• interested in building relationships and working together.

Bring Friends, Families, Neighbors, and Colleagues!

WHY ROTARY & COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP?

Rotary creates high levels of trust, where people from many backgrounds and perspectives build bonds while achieving results. This Courageous Community-Building event combines Rotary’s "Service Above Self” model with Courageous Leadership’s proven collaboration methods. Our programs are built on solid social science, and have helped people increase social and emotional intelligence and build trust with each other and our society. We have delivered programs “Courageous Community-Building” with 500+ Rotarians and friends from 40+ Rotary Clubs. Our evidence-based tools have been used by Salesforce, Microsoft, Pfizer, Hewlett Foundation, Google, Center for Domestic Peace, GE, and more. This TEDx Talk provides a glimpse of our methodology.

Every great team, community, family, and country faces conflict when differing ideas and perspectives collide. But instead of shying away, we can invite “Courageous Community-Building," and turn fear into excitement, curiosity, and positive impact.

DEMONSTRATED IMPACT

Third-party research by Jonathan Haidt’s Civil Politics, showed the “Courageous Community” program yielded some of the highest results of any of the many “bridging divides” programs they had evaluated, with statistically significant increases in:

• A sense of belonging,

• Willingness to work across difference to achieve common goals, and

• Motivation to bridge differences

An internal evaluation of Rotary programs showed that:

• 94% of participants want Rotary to continue to develop these sessions;

• 92% learned important information; and

• 86% will behave differently in the future because of the training.