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Not knowing what their kids are being taught. | |
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| Bill Doherty is our guest. | ||
| He's the co-founder of the nonprofit group Braver Angels. | ||
| And Mr. Doherty, when and why did you start Braver Angels? | ||
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Well, we started it right after the 2016 presidential election when one of our co-founders, David Blankenhor in New York City, was talking to another co-founder, David Lapp, who were in Southwest, he was in Southwest Ohio about how people were feeling about the election. | |
| The world was ending in New York City. | ||
| It was hope for America in Southwest Ohio. | ||
| They decided on the spur of the moment to get to get 10 Hillary Clinton voters, 10 Donald Trump voters together for 13 hours over a weekend in Southwest Ohio to see if they could talk with each other, not just about each other. | ||
| Asked me to facilitate it. | ||
| It was a beautiful, great, it was a great experience, and we decided to keep going. | ||
| Asked you to facilitate it. | ||
| Why? | ||
| What's your background? | ||
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Well, I'm a family therapist, marriage and family therapist, and have done a lot of community engagement work. | |
| So I know how to work with people who are at odds with each other. | ||
| So how many of those sit-downs have you facilitated? | ||
| How many people have gone through the Braver Angels program in the time since? | ||
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Well, 3,500 workshops of various kinds since then, 50,000, 60,000 people. | |
| And so we spread around the country. | ||
| And our mission is to have reds and blues in leadership. |