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Making Change: With Dr. Marc Gopin A podcast on positive change - the art and science of what needs to happen to make ourselves better,

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People often treat ethics as a set of beliefs: you “have” them, or you don’t. Or ethics is treated as a set of arguments: you “win” them, or you lose. But Compassionate Reasoning starts from a different premise. Moral clarity is not an ideology to adopt. It’s a human capacity to train—...

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Mass shootings and mass killings in the United States have become a central subject of public debate, not only because of their horror and visibility, but also because they raise profound questions about who commits them, why, and how society might best respond. One of the most contentious aspects o...

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Excerpt: Here is where the research that I have done over the years in my books Conflict Healing, Healing the Heart of Conflict, in my book Compassionate Reasoning and in my book on Future Healing which is emerging is that basically we have a tremendous power with every word that we use to shift conversations and shift people's attention towards negative things and towards destructive things versus towards things that are very healing and that are very encouraging of pro social relationships.

It also is up to us at every moment whether we turn conversations in the direction of emotional regulation or dysregulation. The words related to care, understanding and empathy activate different neural pathways that encourage social bonding.

But threats and insults produce very different kinds of emotional dysregulation.

This is very important in terms of the direction of basically the public space of the United States every single day.

This is an opportunity to contribute in your own modest way every day rather than be a passive recipient. But to become an active producer in very small ways is to help with cognitive reframing to shift the country towards care, respect,

honesty, decency, compassion.

This reframes discussions away from a win lose dynamic and an insulting dynamic to a mutually understanding dynamic.

This is also called linguistic priming. It is a way in which by repetition and linguistic contagion, we can introduce words that are often or phrases that are often associated with kindness, reconciliation, a shared humanity that are mirrored by other people the more that they hear it.

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A critical antidote to polarization around life and death matters is for Americans to develop three key skills: learning together common facts, listening to eac

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The United States is the most powerful national on earth economically and militarily, and it is at the forefront of medical and technological innovation, but it

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Making Change - An Exploration of Positive Change

Welcome to Making Change: A podcast on positive change - the art and science of what needs to happen to make ourselves better, to make society better, and make the earth better.

The human mind is the key to reacting in a more constructive way to current events and life's challenges. Not only can training our thinking help us understand what is happening, it gives us a path forward to change our lives, our communities, and our world for the better.

Making Change is an exploration of neuroscience, ethics , politics, and best conflict resolution practices when it comes to the challenges and opportunities we have to build a better world.