How To Have Impossible Conversations - Peter Boghossian at UCF
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- On February 14th, 2023, the University of Central Florida welcomed Peter Boghossian for a thought-provoking event based on his book, "How to Have Impossible Conversations". This event was made possible through AHA Foundation's Critical Thinking Fellowship, which helps student leaders on college campuses across the USA host impartial debates and events designed to engage their fellow students in open-minded inquiry about cultural, religious and policy issues.
Boghossian opened the event with a brief speech on the importance of open dialogue in today's polarized society. The rest of the event was focused around a game meant to teach reflection into one's beliefs and methods through which to talk to others about their beliefs. The audience participated in a dialogue-fostering exercise, where they practiced the techniques Boghossian had outlined. Attendees gained valuable insights on how to approach challenging conversations with empathy and respect, even when facing disagreement.
"How to have Impossible Conversations" offered a practical guide for individuals seeking to improve their communication skills and foster meaningful dialogues across ideological divides.
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The conditioning is strong at uni.
We need more things like this! Wonderful discussion and highly important in order to reduce polarization in society.
Thanks for your feedback Viktor! We loved the conversation as well.
I wish this style of conversation would have been utilized during my time in grad school. Contentious conversations were so polarized in and out of the classroom- which at best had a negative impact on my learning and at worst demonized those who had a differing perspective from the group. Thank you for making this available!
Thank you for your comment Meghan! We think Peter is fabulous at fostering interesting conversations around difficult to discuss topics. He really facilitates great conversations.
This was an amazing presentation, I do like this method and will try it with my friends and family who think differently than me. I’m assuming this method works well because people feel heard.
On another note, I would feel very uncomfortable taking my child to any doctor under 50 if these students are a representative sample of the new medical care paradigm. They seem to have massive a priori assumptions about the transgender movement, it’s necessity to “affirm” in youth who may just have generalized anxiety, the role of doctors to intervene in patients lives for their own good, parents strongly held values and belief systems are invalid if “the science” says something else, and that “science” is a thing that has verified truth rather than a never ending process of revealing truth.
The CoVid response debacle showed us that the devil woos the intellect as a tool just as he uses greed and bigotry.
We are so glad you found useful tools from this conversation, Daryl. Thank you for your support!
I wanted to make it to this discussion. I had always considered myself liberal but believe I would have been a constructive conservative voice in these conversations.
I am appreciating this process, but I think there are tougher questions, and the biases are still in place. Do we know if suicide rate goes down with people who have gender affirming care or does it stay the same or does it go up? I don't know the answer is there a study to reference and if so we need to know who did the study. Also could the psychiatrist be biased. So many sides to a tough question. I wish the beliefs would have been more diverse, possibly in this "culture" it is not safe to have a different point of view because the activity will end and these students will still be in class together and have been in class together, and we have seen how students act towards others who disagree with them on college campuses. I wish I was asking the questions. Such as puberty blockers causing biological males to be unable to have an orgasm later in life with or without surgery.
I wrote my response before the professor spoke. I agree with the professor.
Thanks for your feedback Lori! We hope to host many more of these types of events so we can continue engaging minds and having important conversations like this.
Not much diversity of opinion to be seen here among the students, though I suppose that should be somewhat expected given that they are still young and have not had much opportunity to form their own thoughts. I wonder if those medical professionals in the 1970s, performing the ice-pick lobotomies on children with behavioural problems, were just as confident that they were doing the right thing for their patients, as these students seem to be about setting children on the path to irreversible surgery? History of course may judge these things very differently, but at this stage it is too early to tell, so I'd have like to have seen a bit more reluctance on their part, besides those of the immediate concerns over the dangers of the surgery itself. In a political climate we are told is becoming increasingly hostile to trans identifying people, maybe holding off to see how the culture is shifting in response to this ideology might be a good idea. Decide in haste, repent at your leisure.
Is it actually legal to give minors gender affirming medical care without parental consent? I'm amazed these 'doctors' are relatively comfortable with this.
Nonetheless he was forced to quit working for his university because the conversations there were impossible and he tried and tried and failed and failed and he couldn't take it any more.
peterboghossian.com/my-resignation-letter