Beginning contentious meetings with shared gratitude builds consensus before disagreement

Evidence

Those words are a brilliant political preamble to negotiation, strong medicine for soothing partisan fervor. Imagine if our government meetings began with the Thanksgiving Address. What if our leaders first found common ground before fighting over their differences? — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Interesting cross-domain echo with ch.24’s theme of shared recitation, and a practical method any pedagogy or facilitation could adopt. — connects to: Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus — ‘Dialogic scaffolding’: Enhancing learning and understanding in collaborative contexts; Solidarity forms through talk structured as mutual learning, not just task completion — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1224

Broader Connections

• Solidarity forms through talk structured as mutual learning, not just task completion #corroborates (0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1224