Videos
Watch interviews, TED talks, documentary clips, and full recordings of Living Room Conversations
LRC LIVE premiere: Climate Of Unity
We all want to live in a healthy environment, yet most of us make compromises to enjoy the benefits of modern society. And some forms of pollution we have more
LRC LIVE premiere: Communitarianism & Conservatism
The idea of conservatism evokes a spectrum of ideas, values and political positions. This conversation is designed to take a closer look at one point along this spectrum– “communitarianism”. This
Piedmont Community Church on Bridging Ideological Divides
Leaders from Piedmont Community Church in Northern California discuss how Living Room Conversations strengthen faith communities and bridge ideological divides.
Living Room Conversation on Communitarianism & Conservatism – Highlights
Check out the highlights from this Living Room Conversation on Communitarianism & Conservatism, featuring: Pete Peterson – The American Project John Wood – Braver Angels Matt Kibbe – Free the
LRC Live: Juneteenth
Juneteenth celebrates the ending of slavery in the United States on June 19th, 1865. This date marks when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to share the news of freedom
LRC LIVE: Earth Day
Earth Day The Living Room Conversations Way. We are excited to share highlights from a recent Climate of Unity Living Room Conversation among leaders in the environmental community. This conversation
LRC LIVE: Let’s Talk About Women
Women connect and uplift each other in so many ways and communities are strengthened when women gather together to support each other. Meaningful conversation, like Living Room Conversations, can be
LRC Live: The Future through the eyes of Youth Leaders
Watch the recording of LRC Live: The Future through the eyes of Youth Leaders, where young leaders explored ways to make a difference and reasons to be hopeful. Watch the
LIVE: Race & Ethnicity
Watch the recording of LRC Live: Race & Ethnicity, where people just like you reflected on Race & Ethnicity in America. Watch the recorded conversation, follow along with guide, and
LRC Live: Trust
Watch the recording of LRC Live: Trust, where people just like you reflected on key disconnects we are currently experiencing in trust. They considered what happens when we don’t trust
Moving Forward Together: Full Video
Watch the full video of our very first LRC Live! Election 2020: Moving Forward Together, featuring Grover Norquist, Marianne Williamson, and others from across the political spectrum. Marianne Williamson –
LRC Live: A Potluck Across Generations
Watch the recording of LRC Live: A Potluck Across Generations, where members of our Staff and Youth Council engaged in a casual, intergenerational conversation. It’s a bring your own family
The 2020 Election – Moving Forward Together
Highlights from our 2020 Election: Moving Forward Together #LivingRoomConversation featuring: Marianne Williamson – @marwilliamson Grover Norquist – @GroverNorquist Pedro Silva – @noroof John Wood, Jr. – @JohnRWoodJr Justine Lee –
Forgiveness Living Room Conversations Highlights
This Living Room Conversation about Forgiveness was inspired by The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times written by Anita L. Sanchez.
Living Room Conversations and MADA on Glenn Beck discuss Coronavirus Conversations
The founders of Make America Dinner Again and Living Room Conversations have teamed up to start a new kind of “Coronavirus Conversation.” They tell Glenn WHY it’s so important to
Pastor Uses Living Room Conversations to keep his Community Connected Safely
Learn how Pastor Pedro Silva is using Living Room Conversations to stay connected despite physical distancing amidst this global pandemic.
The Golden Rule in Politics – Conversation Highlights
This video shares highlights from a 90 minute Living Room Conversation on The Golden Rule in Politics. Watch the video here, or click on the image below.
Talking about immigration, across the political divide (short)
CNN filmed a 90 minute conversation with Democrats and Republicans talking about immigration and hosted by “Living Room Conversations” in North Carolina. Watch the video here, or click on the
How the American immigrant experience crosses political lines (full video)
CNN filmed a 90 minute conversation with Democrats and Republicans talking about immigration hosted by Living Room Conversations in South Carolina.
FOX24 Charleston: Great Conversations Happen in the Living Room
MT. PLEASANT, SC (FOX24 NEWS NOW) – Since the beginning of 2019, Charleston County Public Libraries have hosted a Series in partnership with the nonprofit Living Room Conversations. These conversations
The America We Want to Be
On April 13, 2019, Thomas Jefferson’s 276th birthday, Living Room Conversations and America Indivisible partnered to host a conversation: The America That We Want to Be. Tune in to see
Joan Blades on the power of a few to shift culture through conversation
Joan Blades references ‘The 3.5%’ Rule’ at the end of our conversation. Political scientist Erika Chenoweth at Harvard found that just this sliver of the population, if effectively mobilized through non-violent
Meet Your Library: Living Room Conversations
Take the conversation out of your living room and share your opinion at the library. This new program is bringing together people with different viewpoints to talk about divisive issues.
Celebrating Political Diversity
Watch the talk given at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference by Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations and John Gable of AllSides.
Race and Ethnicity: Highlights
Watch the highlights of our new in-depth three part conversation series on Race and Ethnicity. You can check out the conversation guides for the series here.
FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 1
Part 1 of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.
FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 2
Part 2 of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.
FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 3
A wrap up of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.
Money in Politics with Robert Reich and Debbie Dooley
A conversation co-hosted by Tea Party Patriots co-founder Debbie Dooley and President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich.
SALON: When MoveOn met the Tea Party
Watch the Salon interview with Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations. Image links to Salon website.
LRC at TED: Free Yourself from your Filter Bubbles
Watch the talk given by Joan Blades from Living Room Conversations and John Gable of AllSides at the TEDWomen Conference. Image links to TED website.
Clip 2: American Creed (PBS Documentary)
Watch Joan Blades, co-founder of both Living Room Conversations and MoveOn.org, discuss unlikely friendships.
Forgiveness
Watch our “Forgiveness” Living Room Conversation with Anita L. Sanchez, the author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times. You can check out our “Forgiveness” Living Room
Affordable Housing
Watch our video from our Affordable Housing and the American Dream Living Room Conversation.
Podcasts
Joan Blades, Co-Founder of MoveOn.org and Living Room Conversations, Award Winning Author, and Lawyer
Click on the player below to listen to Joan’s interview on Peace Podcast. “Conversations can heal our lives and change the world for the better” says my guest, Joan Blades.
Joan Blades: Grassroots Organizer, Culture Change-Maker, Nonprofit Founder
Click on the image below to listen to Joan’s interview with Awakin. Joan Blades is an “accidental activist” at the forefront of movements that have shaped American culture and politics.
Peace-Building Through Conversation with Joan Blades (Relate with Patrick McAndrew)
Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations, joins us in episode 107 of Relate. In this episode, we discuss the importance of approaching conversations with intention and why we must
Heart, Empowerment & Effective Action with Joan Blades
Could heart, empowerment and conscious effectiveness be the pillars to aligning as a society and making progress on the issues that matter to us most? Joan Blades, co-founder of
A Year of Listening: Listening Across Differences
Author Colleen K. Powell interview’s Living Room Conversations’ own Tracy Hollister about the relationships she has developed across political and cultural divides, and why listening to people with whom we disagree
Healing Divides with Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations and MoveOn
Joan Blades founder of MoveOn and MomsRising joins The Great Battlefield podcast. Joan talks about how her latest passion, Living Room Conversations, is helping people engage in conversations across various
Race and Ethnicity: Part 3
Listen to Part 3 (the wrap-up) in our Race and Ethnicity Conversation Series. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations yourself— explore and download our
Race and Ethnicity: Part 2
Listen to Part 2 in our Race and Ethnicity Conversation Series. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations yourself— explore and download our conversation guides here!
Race and Ethnicity: Part 1
Listen to the first of our new three-part series on Race and Ethnicity. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations yourself— explore and download our
Living Room Conversations: Can A New “Parlor” Game Heal the Divide?
Listen to the podcast here A Conversation With Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades “When we connect personally, we don’t take things poisonally.” — Swami Beyondananda Did you know (From
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed, which tells a story of
Talking Politics
In this conversation, we explore our own experience about how we learned to talk about politics . . . or to avoid it. We are sharing stories about what has