Use this POST DATE ORDERED BLOG for Colleague Activities posts. Individual entries can be drawn from links to information about colleague activities posted elsewhere on the web or from write-ups that we have done and posted on BI (see "MBI Core Content Basic Pages" coded as "Seminar/Discussion: College Activities") NOTE: Entries need to be made for all existing Colleague Activity posts using the same Title and Facebook-Length Summary. 

Shannon Kupersmith: We are at a complicated intersection with lots of roads. What if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction? 

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Life as we knew it in 2019 is gone.  The world is changing, so what if we use this opportunity to move forward in a better direction?

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John Paul Lederach: We Need Moral Imagination to Respond to Covid-19.

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We must respond to this pandemic by strengthening relationships, using curiosity and creativity, and taking risks to make things better.

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Bruce Dayton: We're at a Crossroads between Tribalism and a New Supra-Ordinate Identity

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Do we want the conflicts of tribalism, or the benefits that come from helping each other in a time of mutual crisis?

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Cynthia Cohen: Artists Can Help Us Frame Our Coronavirus Narrative

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What happens during and after Covid-19 will be largely influenced by the stories we tell about what is happening.

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John Lande on the Crisis-New-Normal (CNN) and the Normal-New-Normal (NNN)

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"Normal" after the pandemic subsides is not going to be the "normal" we knew before. What will it look like?

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Chip Hauss: Shifting from "Me First" to "We First" and Other "Takes" on the Coronavirus

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Three blogs on how peacebuilders might approach their work in the era of COVID-19,

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A Different Kind of Civil-Service Nonprofit

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An inspiring story about FUSE, an effort to match volunteer, mid-career professionals with local governments in need of need their skills. #mbi_colleague

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Civity Blog -- Bridging Divides to Strengthen Communities

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Looking for ideas on how, in the midst of the pandemic, to help people to create authentic, empathetic, and meaningful relationships with people who differ from themselves?

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Civity.org offers training and hosts conversations around the U.S., providing opportunities for people to meet and connect with people different from themselves. "Going forward, the experience of connecting across and through difference becomes an intentional and integral part of working for stronger and more resilient communities." Civity also offers a set of podcasts and a blog/newsletter which share stories of those acting with a "Civity mindset." The Spring 2020 posts are focused on responding to each other in the time of Covid-19 and are very useful in that regard.

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