Crossing Party Lines: Austin, TX

The recent bank collapses have many of us turning our attention to our country’s banking system. While pundits are having a field day telling us what the government should have done and what we should be doing now, we’ll explore this topic from a more personal angle, asking what we, as individuals, want from a banking system. In the process, we’ll explore such additional questions as:

• Are you in favor of a government agency being tasked with protecting our savings?

• How do you feel about the Fed stepping in to take over the failing banks?

• Would your response have been different if you were customers of those banks?

• If you’re worried about the impact of these bank collapses on your own finances, what do you fear might happen?

Join this week's conversation as we lean into the questions recent bank collapses raise for us.

Our environment shapes our quality of life and similarly, our actions can impact the quality of our surroundings. When it comes to environmental policy initiatives however, this cause and effect relationship can be…complicated.

Whether it’s restrictions on buying halogen lightbulbs, using electric car rebates, or paying “green taxes,” we’ve all been directly impacted by one initiative or another. What may remain distinct however is our experiences - who has seen benefit and who has felt consequence?

Join us as we discuss the changes you’ve seen, both big and small. We’ll also look towards the future: What hopes or fears do future policy options bring?

Please do your best to arrive at the beginning of the meeting – once we are in breakout rooms and the conversations have started, the meeting doors close to new arrivals. The breakout rooms open (and the doors close) approximately 15 minutes after the hour.

Sign up here or at a chapter near you:
- Atlanta, GA: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-GA-Atlanta
- Austin, TX: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-TX-Austin
- Chicago, IL: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-IL-Chicago
- Columbus, OH: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OH-Columbus
- Mesa, AZ: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-AZ-Mesa
- New York City: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NY
- Long Island: https://www.meetup.com/crossing-party-lines-ny-long-island/
- Portland, OR: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines
- Raleigh, NC: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NC-Raleigh
- San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-CA-SanFrancisco
- Southern Oregon: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OR-Medford

We would love to hear your thoughts on our social media pages. Don't miss topic announcements, updates, news! Follow us on:
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• Twitter @crosspartylines
• Facebook @crossingpartylines

Americans spend on average about 2.8 hours per week involved in workplace related conflict. Almost 90 percent of us report struggling with it in one form or another. All of us, leadership and workers alike, are finding that in our increasingly polarized country, workplace conflicts are more difficult to deal with and solve than ever before.

Wouldn’t you like to discover why this is so and how you can better manage workplace conflict?

In this session you’ll come to see conflict and your own role in it in a new light.

You’ll learn best practices for reducing the conflict and easy techniques you can use today to make your work life more satisfying and productive.

Join the Crossing Party Lines and POV International for this interactive event. Sign up here or at a chapter near you:

• Atlanta, GA: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-GA-Atlanta
• Austin, TX: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-TX-Austin
• Chicago, IL: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-IL-Chicago
• Columbus, OH: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OH-Columbus
• Mesa, AZ: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-AZ-Mesa
• New York City: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NY
• Portland, OR: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines
• Raleigh, NC: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NC-Raleigh
• San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-CA-SanFrancisco
• Southern Oregon: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OR-Medford

We would love to hear your thoughts on our social media pages. Don't miss topic announcements, updates, news! Follow us on:
• Instagram @crossingpartylines
• Twitter @crosspartylines
• Facebook @crossingpartylines

Attendees: Before the meeting, please download and print the handouts, which are located on this page: https://crossingpartylines.com/your-brain-on-politics/

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What’s going on in the world of politics? Why does talking politics so often feel off limits or fraught with danger? How can we get back to the good old days when it was OK to disagree and we could still be friends despite different views?

In this workshop, you'll learn the cause of the political divide and how you can free yourself from the political and media manipulation that has transformed healthy politics into a blood sport. After providing tips and simple techniques for using our brain's amazing powers to make talking across differences easier, we'll break into pairs explore the concepts we've learned and practice new skills that we can bring into our next difficult conversations.

There are no prerequisites for this course. All are welcome.
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ABOUT CPL Workshops

Get the training you need to effectively cross party lines. Crossing Party Lines provides a series of FREE classes teaching the skills we use to talk across differences. We teach proven, science-based techniques to foster curiosity, invite listening, and connect across differences.

We designed these techniques based on recent discoveries in such fields as cognitive science, neurobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Because understanding the partisan brain is central to the work of Crossing Party Lines, our workshops cover both the skills and some of the basic science behind them.

There are no prerequisites for this course. All are welcome.
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Sign up here or at a chapter near you:

• Atlanta, GA: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-GA-Atlanta
• Austin, TX: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-TX-Austin
• Chicago, IL: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-IL-Chicago
• Columbus, OH: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OH-Columbus
• Mesa, AZ: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-AZ-Mesa
• New York City: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NY
• Portland, OR: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines
• Raleigh, NC: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-NC-Raleigh
• San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-CA-SanFrancisco
• Southern Oregon: https://www.meetup.com/Crossing-Party-Lines-OR-Medford

We would love to hear your thoughts on our social media pages. Don't miss topic announcements, updates, news! Follow us on:
• Instagram @crossingpartylines
• Twitter @crosspartylines
• Facebook @crossingpartylines