Engaging with words and stories to find common ground

Using words & stories to find common ground & progress towards a better future together

As mentioned previously, finding common ground is indispensable to our progress, especially if we are to move forward as communities and solve the most pressing issues we have to deal with as humans inhabiting an abundant but vulnerable and finite planet.

In this article we explore how words, language and the stories we tell can help us find common ground or tear us apart, and look at some examples to demonstrate how things can go either way.

Have you ever shared a story or anecdote that sounded perfectly reasonable to you and made a lot of sense but it came across to others as highly threatening, completely irrelevant, boring, or as the best thing they have ever … read more by subscribing.