2015 January Berkman Center

What do we think healthy interactions contain?

Varying breadths and depths of conversation

Common purpose

Food to fight the hanger

Listening < > Being heard

Catalysts

• Leaders
• Connectors
• Facilitators
• Pacifiers

Difference

Openness < > Willingness to change / be wrong

Tolerance for difference of opinion/stance

Perspective-taking

Space for disagreement, including about "the rules"

Awareness

Situational awareness

Impulse control < > long-term vision

Social awareness

Self-awareness and self-resepct

Norms

• Common language
• Transparency about norms
• Some shared values
  • Empathy
  • Trust
  • Mutual Respect