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  • The Depolarizing of America

  • A Guidebook for Social Healing
  • By: Kirk Schneider
  • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
  • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Depolarizing of America

By: Kirk Schneider
Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
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Our nation needs healing dialogues - especially now.

In the wake of the coronavirus and George Floyd killing, many of the issues dividing us as a nation - race, politics, class, gender, climate change, globalism, and religion - have only been magnified, and although the US surgeon general has called for an end to bickering and partisanship, it is unclear to what extent this will take effect. What is clear, however, is that safe, mindfully structured dialogues are imperative if we are to salvage our republic and the democratic principles on which it is built.

The Depolarizing of America is the culmination of years of efforts to promote safe, mindfully structured dialogues in homes, offices, classrooms, and community centers. It is an attempt to give away the time-tested skills with which the author, Kirk Schneider, has intimate experience, to a range of both laypersons and professionals; people who yearn to socially heal. The audiobook begins with personal observations about our polarized state, both within the United States (and by implication) the world. It follows up with a reflection on how the sense of awe toward life, issuing in part from America's founding spirit, can serve as a counter to this polarized state. It concludes with practical strategies centered on dialogue.

These strategies translate awe-based sensibilities, including humility and wonder toward life, to a rediscovery of one another, a rediscovery of our potential to shape and revitalize our times. As a follow up to Schneider's groundbreaking book, The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America is an essential listen for those who are striving for social healing and positive collective change.

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This book is desperately needed in todays Society. Narrator is good. The book gets a bit clinical, but I feel the solutions it provides for our increasingly toxic world are spot on.

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Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

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