heart and soul Can you move beyond your bubble? " Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide is a much-needed very intelligent and thoughtful approach for opening lines of communication and dialogue between people who disagree on political and social issues, by an author who appreciates the psychological and emotional complexities involved. " The idea for Tania Israel's book Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, came immediately following the election of November 2016. With many years as a psychologist, teacher and workshop facilitator and professor of counseling psychology at UCSB, Israel saw the huge communication quandary we were all in. Friendships and families were in turmoil unable to connect across the red/blue divide. Of course, having the turmoil pot stirred constantly by the man who went on to win the election made everything much worse. 35 GRAND Summer 2021 " This is a great read for all sides of the political spectrum Beyond Your Bubble paints a picture of political conflict that is both realistic and optimistic. Together we can begin the process of dismantling positions based on labels and by learning how others have arrived at the beliefs they hold. This resource book could not come at a better time. Our country has been going through a communication crisis and we need to fix this if we are to move ahead as a democratic country. According to Israel, " We see others as more extreme than they really are. " She believes this was one of the most consequential discoveries in her work. When she asks readers to identify their motivations for dialogue, she does so in the hope that they may eventually listen to understand, rather than just to respond. It's this quality of curiosity and " intellectual humility, " which Israel describes as " being righteous without being self-righteous " that underlies the potential for success of the entire approach. " Tania Israel is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at UC Santa Barbara. Beyond Your Bubble grew out of the skill-building workshop that she developed and delivered to hundreds of participants following the 2016 election.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0994809700/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0994809700&linkId=c0cf2342749a51234e00421ef2df453e https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003B6QYSW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B003B6QYSW&linkId=74a78ba0a510c9871c2e38f745d59213 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433833557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1433833557&linkId=a3b465c35c6881f8c26dc658ad641f37 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433833557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1433833557&linkId=cf64eeb0082f8a72d9876a91f5c6889c https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433833557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1433833557&linkId=cf64eeb0082f8a72d9876a91f5c6889c https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433833557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1433833557&linkId=a3b465c35c6881f8c26dc658ad641f37