Thursday, February 17th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
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Our special guest this week, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, President of The Center for Learning and Leadership
How To Negotiate With People You Don’t Like
Forget agreement, and certainly uniform agreement. How do you deal with people you really don’t like, or even those who are simply from very different cultures? How are those two challenges related, and how can we get things done, even when there is plenty about which we don’t agree? From our homes to the streets of our cities, to our nation’s capitol, these questions seem more pressing now than at any time in most of our lifetimes. Together we will see that there there really are things we can do about each of them.
Listed for many years in Newsweek as one of America’s “50 Most Influential Rabbis,” and recognized as one of our nation’s leading “Preachers and Teachers,” by Beliefnet.com, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield serves as the President of Clal–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a training institute, think tank, and resource center nurturing religious pluralism within the Jewish community, and in the world at large.
Hirschfield is the author and editor of numerous books, including You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism, writes a column for Religion News Service, and appears regularly on TV and radio. He is the founder of the Stand and See Fellowship, which brings hundreds of Christian religious leaders to Israel, preparing them to address the increasing polarization around Middle East issues with six words, “It’s more complicated than we know”.
An ordained Orthodox rabbi, who studied for his PhD and taught at both the Jewish Theological Seminary of Amedrica and American Jewish University, Brad works across borders — religious, political, and ideological — helping to aaddress the ever-increasing polarization which threatens us all, animated by the premise that we all have something to teach each other, and we all have things to learn from pretty much everybody, even, or perhaps especially, from those with whom we disagree the most.