Learning Together: Holding the Center: Four Balancing Acts for Family Dialogue

Learning Together - Holding the Center: Four Balancing Acts for Family Dialogue

Whether around the dinner table or in the car ride home, today’s most charged topics inevitably show up in our conversations with children —and with one another. This session offers a practical framework for courageous dialogue grounded in four essential balancing acts. Drawing on powerful stories, scenario-based exploration, and the latest research on human connection, we’ll unpack how adults can show up with steadiness and grace in the conversations that matter most. You’ll leave with refreshed clarity, actionable language, and renewed confidence in your role as a model of dialogue in a divided time.

Jason Craige Harris, a member of Pollyanna’s speaker’s bureau, is a writer, observer, and the strategist working at the intersection of culture, leadership, and social impact. Through essays, talks, and advisory work, he examines the forces that shape human connection and institutional life—power, identity, dignity and repair. Drawing on ethics, psychology, and systems thinking, Jason helps individuals and organizations navigate complexity, confront harm and cultivate cultures of care. A trusted facilitator, coach, and mediator, he is known for using storytelling and humor to spark reflection, deepen humility and catalyze transformation. He is currently writing a book of essays on dignity, relationships, leadership—and the shadow work required of us all.