Convergence Compass Online Learning Program

*Single-learner purchase

Convergence Compass is an online learning program that helps participants understand what drives division and teaches them evidence-based strategies for effective dialogue, and collaborative problem-solving, even on the toughest issues. The curriculum is designed by Convergence in partnership with Constructive Dialogue Institute and UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.

This is a fully asynchronous learning format that allows participants to move through the online courses at their own pace, on their own schedule.

The online learning program takes approximately 8 hours to complete.

The curriculum includes:

• COURSE 1 - Understanding Polarization: The Root of Division -

  This course is an overview of polarization and its impacts on relationships, society, and politics provides participants with a basic understanding of the conflicts and tensions that exist in communities and organizations.

• COURSE 2 - Conflict and the Brain: The Psychology of Conflict and its Resolution - This course will help participants understand some of the ways in which our brains operate that lead to conflict so that participants are better equipped to manage conflict. It provides concrete tools to address cognitive biases like confirmation bias and attribution error. The course applies the six moral foundations as a framework to help participants understand and bridge difference in perspectives. The course also shares the research and brain science behind the full program.
• COURSE 3 - Bridging Divides: Strategies for Effective Dialogue – Building upon earlier content, this course participants with the mindsets and practical strategies and skills to engage in difficult conversations, build relationships, and bridge differences. These skills include how to use storytelling to build understanding and how to transform destructive statements into constructive ones.
• COURSES 4 and 5 - Collaborative Problem-Solving: From Conflict to Solutions – These courses provide a deep dive into collaborative problem-solving – an evidence-based methodology for transforming conflicts that enables people to go beyond compromise to develop mutually beneficial solutions that are wiser and more durable than anything they could have developed on their own, and to develop trust and relationships along the way. From conflict analysis to stakeholder identification, to convening, to relationship building, to forging consensus solutions, these final modules create a comprehensive roadmap for participants to take what they’ve learned and apply it to help their respective communities tackle divisive issues.