Engage in Conversations of the Heart
November 19, 2025
This article appears in the November Issue of Reflections and Connections
You are invited to participate in the Conversations of the Heart series. Participants meet once per week for six weeks and use the book Healing The Heart Of Democracy: The Courage To Create A Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit by Parker Palmer to learn more about what it means:
- to listen to each other openly and without fear, learning how much we have in common despite our differences
- to deepen our empathy for the alien “other” as we enter imaginatively into the experiences of people whose lives are radically unlike our own
- to hold what we believe and know with conviction and be willing to listen openly to other viewpoints, changing our minds if needed
- to seek out additional facts and explanations whenever we find reason to doubt our own truth claims or the claims made by others, thus becoming better informed
- and to probe, question, explore, and engage in dialogue, developing a fuller, more three-dimensional view of reality in the process.
If you are interested in participating, upcoming dates and the application are available at csasisters.org/unity