Building Relationships That Transcend Conflict

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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**Join us for our 2024 Couples' Retreat! Save $200 with code JFF!** Dr. Finlayson-Fife was invited by Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) to speak on how we can maintain hope and foster healthy relationships during a time of deep political polarization. In the presentation, Dr. Finlayson-Fife discusses how we can bridge divides with those who think differently by showing genuine care, listening with humility, and seeking to understand others' experiences, using their perspectives to broaden our own. Dr. Finlayson-Fife emphasizes that, while we cannot make people think the way we think, we CAN care about each other despite our differences. This connection not only expands our own understanding, but strengthens our ability to work to solve our shared challenges, which is key to thriving in our families, communities, and society

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0:00.0	to understand, not so that you can critique it, but to genuinely understand how does this person
0:06.4	operate in the world. You don't have to agree with them, but you do have to respect people's
0:12.2	ability to have a different decision and their humanity, the way that they are like you.
0:17.6	People will feel it and it will increase their receptiveness to you and their respect for you. You'll be more able to come to a shared
0:28.4	understanding and a wiser understanding for your courage to love and reach out to other people.
0:34.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer,
0:38.0	a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships,
0:42.0	sexuality, spirituality, and more, all featuring Dr Finlason Fife.
0:47.0	By a of introduction, my name is Lisa Salazar Tingi and I'm with the women behind and
0:58.2	wake's hope experiment, the initiative that brought us all together tonight.
1:01.3	I'm calling in for Kansas City, Missouri and I'm thrilled to be hosting. So for those
1:05.6	who are joining us for the first time, M-WAG is short for Mormon women for ethical government. We are a grassroots movement of
1:12.4	thousands of women across
1:13.8	49 states who are working to build a more peaceful, just, and ethical world.
1:18.1	And Wigg is a safe-based and nonpartisan organization with a two-part mission. We advocate for ethical
1:24.2	governments and we help women become independent and powerful civic actors.
1:29.2	So in short, we work together to make things better.
1:33.0	And as part of this mission, we launched a social experiment this summer
1:35.8	to prepare members for the upcoming election season.
1:39.2	We asked participants to take stock of how hopeful they were feeling and they gave them a simple
1:44.2	list of actions they could take to create a deeper more lasting hope.
1:48.5	Why did we do that? Because democracies thrive when citizens are engaged,
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