Local Focus: Fairfax County, VA and environs Local Discussion: How America Should Govern or Legislate Regarding Abortion. We'll start our April meeting by giving participants an opportunity to state briefly, in a sentence or two, their opinion on abortion. We will then shift to our discussion topic of How America should govern or legislate regarding […]

Local Skills Training

This in-person skills-building session will focus on understanding elements of the Braver Angels 1:1 Golden Rule Conversation. Donna Murphy, who administers the 1:1 Conversation program nationally (and is a Fairfax Alliance member) will facilitate discussion of the Golden Rule as applied to depolarizing conversations with our time together including both group discussions and one-on-one conversations […]

Local Focus: Fairfax County, VA Group discussion: how much aid our government should provide, and more broadly how we believe our nation should use its resources. We look forward to hearing your response the following questions: What is your opinion on further aid to Ukraine versus funding domestic issues? If you had authority to allocate […]

* Local Focus: Northern Virginia This month's meeting will be an open discussion on how our personal belief systems influence our own political/policy beliefs and highlight topics of greatest concern for follow-up by speakers representing different belief systems in our April meeting.

Local Focus: VA, DC, MD - the Washington DC metropolitan area At our April 15th meeting, we have a panel featuring knowledgeable speakers of a number of religions following discussing how their religious or moral beliefs inform our politics. They'll consider how our current political environment reinforces or changes these views on a number of […]

* Local Focus: Northern Virginia suburbs and Washinton, DC At this next meeting, we will explore the subject “Who owns the American story?”. It opens all sorts of doors, from immigrant stories to a conversation about “owning a story” and what that might mean to different people ** This event is open to the media […]

Convention Recap & Immigration Discussion, Part 1 ** This event is open to the media upon approval. Send requests to press@braverangels.org

Local Focus: DC, MD, VA A conversation with Braver Angels about their work to combat polarization in the United States. Q&A to Follow ** This event is open to the media upon approval. Send requests to press@braverangels.org

Local Focus: Northern Virginia This meeting will take place exactly one week after the polls close. What else could would we able to discuss? Expect to see some context or questions from us to frame the initial discussion if you're registered. ** This event is open to the media upon approval. Send requests to press@braverangels.org