Participants in skills workshops learn how to communicate more effectively with people holding political views different from their own. These workshops provide instruction and practice in listening to others and in speaking in ways that encourage others to listen to them. This skills workshop is open to the public but requires preregistration. Anyone wishing to attend should send an email to kerr@polifactsncivility.com.

Better Angels, which developed the red-blue and skills workshops, is a national citizens' movement uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. The organization’s website (www.better-angels.org) explains: “As individuals, we try to understand the other side's point of view, even if we don't agree. In our communities, we engage those we disagree with, looking for common ground and ways to work together. In politics we support principles that bring us together rather than divide us.”