Solidarity forms through talk structured as mutual learning, not just task completion

Evidence

Members said they were making a conscious effort to make more people feel more comfortable talking in meetings. … The group decided to value meetings, not only as a means of getting predetermined tasks done, but also as contexts for developing new thoughts. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1224

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Beginning contentious meetings with shared gratitude builds consensus before disagreement — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 401; Volunteers build egalitarian togetherness by suppressing distinctive principled talking — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 334