Favorite line: "our democracy is not going to be revived by communities of the like-minded working in opposing silos to vanquish each other"

Excited to be in Northglenn to give a workshop to city employees this afternoon. Beautiful rec center in this community.

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Sarah Cooper returns with "How to Boat." He’s always given her a wealth of material to work with, but Trump’s bit about the shark/electric boat was probably just too hard for her to resist so she took his insanity and turned it into comedy gold...

Tapper should ask them both the shark versus electrocution question tonight.

Would be interesting to have a focus group of "undecided voters" go through a print out of the debate, assisted by fact checkers, and see what they think. I know we don't, but shouldn't we focus more on the substance of ideas?

I describe my work as designing processes focused on avoiding triggering the worst in human nature and tapping into the best. Sadly, people make alot more money doing the opposite. "Goading people into participating as the worst version of themselves" is a nice way to phrase it

"It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build."  - Nelson Mandela

One the best parts of my job is to see former students go out into the world and do good work! Congrats Willow (and congrats to the DCI for hiring her).

Interesting.

Nice. Be like Brad.

Will no longer be active on this site. I post most often on linkedin, posting lots of developing ideas for comments and refinement. Connect or follow me there. linkedin.com/in/martin-carc…

Enjoyed by conversation with CSU President Amy Parsons and the Straayer Center's Samuel Lawrence Houghteling about CSU's democracy efforts for her new Next 150 podcast.

Water in the West is in just ✌️ days — we’re pretty excited about it 🎉 We want to thank Swire Coca-Cola, USA for being a Content Sponsor of this year’s conversation💧 #WITW2024

.CSU College of Liberal Arts professor and founder of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University Dr. Martín Carcasson brought #WITW2024 home with the final keynote speech, "How Collaboration Can Bring Out the Best in Human Nature."

“I believe polarization is the No. 1 issue, because when we’re polarized like we are, we’re unable to address the problems at hand.” “The good news? We’re not nearly as polarized as we think, a lot of it’s manufactured, a lot of it’s fake.” - Dr. Martín Carcasson

This is going to be a cool speaker series at UWyo News! (link below). We have Nadine Strossen coming Feb 25 to talk about free speech, Martin Carcasson coming March 10 to talk about constructive dialogue, and Paul Steinhardt coming April 25 to talk about changing his mind as a

Really enjoyed my conversation on Michael's podcast. It focused on something I've been developing for awhile, important both to college campuses and our communities: making some distinctions between the terms debate, dialogue, & deliberation buzzsprout.com/2311101/episod…