Polarized: Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides
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Polarized: Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides

Sat, Oct 29th, 2022
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Real Dialogue is a method and a skill designed to maintain the emotional space for dialogue during polarization, emotional threat, stress, or perceived offense. It counteracts our natural tendencies to dehumanize each other and create enemies when we feel unheard, unseen, or unknown. Different from conflict resolution, mediation, or any form of compromise, Real Dialogue is a form of negotiation or creative conflict that allows individuals to remain mindful and in contact while in disagreement. In any conflict or discovery process, people need each other’s perspectives in order to find enduring solutions. New ideas and meaning are not always obvious but can be discovered through authentic and open contact with others, something that humans guard against when they feel threatened. Real Dialogue is used between adults who are in dispute in families, at work, or in the public domain.

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This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

Dr. Young-Eisendrath is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy. Polly is the author or editor of eighteen books, ranging from parenting, adult development, intimate and parental love, Buddhist theory, Jungian psychology to women’s development, couple therapy, couple development, and various paths to awakening/enlightenment from meditation to personal love. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Explain why the theory of the “snow globe” of subjectivity is critically important for untangling projective identifications.
  2. 2 Define “emotional threat,” the feelings associated with it, and what it evokes in others.
  3. 3 Identify the role of emotional triggers in eliciting feelings of shame, humiliation, anxiety or rage

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