Interdependence day calls you to help us share ways of communicating that foster understanding and resolving conflict. Our traditional ways of communicating have added to the polarization of cultures that we experience today. The next generation can make different choices.

Help your students grow their capacity to understand one another in a world of differences by raising awareness of what escalates and what helps resolve conflict.

Join us....

What you can do NOW....

Everyone can:

• Resolve a conflict, heal a relationship
• Talk about Interdependence day, invite friends, family, neighbors
• Give this web address to colleagues and community
• Share flyers.
• Refrain from "us against them" conversations, find common ground
  

Educators can:

• create a lesson plan about facing conflict share it on this site
• engage your school or school district in Interdependence day
• invite a performance artist to embody and enliven the key concepts
• share a success or stuck story, exercise, activity idea, future vision...
  

What you can do on September 12:

Interdependence Day has resources to help you do these activities:

• Set up a mediation booth at your school
• Hold a facilitated dialogue on Facing Conflict
• Devote a class to conflict resolution skills (see lesson plans)
  

Other Ideas:

• Have students find examples of interdependence and discuss them.
• Have students talk about the difference between debate and dialogue.
• Have students translate a debate into a dialogue.
• create a skit or play that contrasts communication skills.
• Resolve a conflict, heal a relationship at your school.