How can we help our communities move past trauma and despair toward healing and hope? Get vulnerable, restore trust, and begin building together. Watch videos from Rich Harwood’s Healing and Hope event in Alamance County and read about the Institute’s initiative with Impact Alamance toward community-led change.

In the June 2022 edition of The Harwood Institute’s newsletter, find four ways to rebuild trust in a society where distrust has become the default emotion.

Education has become a battleground for arguments over critical race theory, book banning, school board upheavals, masks, and more, diverting us from the real issues we must address to ensure every young person can fulfill their potential. Rich Harwood shares how to move past divisive rhetoric to create meaningful, lasting community change.

Rich and the Harwood Institute team visited Clarksville, TN, to discuss the recent report, Clarksville-MoCo: Stepping Into the Future, and to lay the foundation for the people of Clarksville to move forward on a new agenda for education and the community.

Amid complex and numerous challenges in society and civic virus plaguing our nation, what do success and hope look like for communities seeking change? Rich Harwood shares three key starting points to engage and inspire our communities to work on effective solutions.

With Americans in a perpetual state of fight or flight, our strategies must be rooted in creating a stronger sense of belonging, agency, and security when we engage with others. Rich Harwood shares two scenarios to help you navigate tensions when bringing community members together.

If you want to help people in your community break free from the fight or flight that is paralyzing so many, there is a simple and profound equation you must know: the basic dignity equation. Rich Harwood examines how the basic dignity equation is foundational to creating change.

Rich Harwood examines the tension between our national and local spaces and shares insights on how to understand and work with that tension to move forward in our community work to build our nation.

On this episode of the Harwood Half Hour, Rich Harwood shares how to use the report findings from Civic Virus: Why Polarization Is a Misdiagnosis to evaluate and make sense of President Biden’s first State of the Union address and the Republican response.

Announcing The Harwood Institute’s three-year partnership with Impact Alamance toward community-led transformation in Alamance County, NC.

The divisive rhetoric of self-interested politicians, negative social media, and the press is adversely affecting our values and culture. And they say the American people are to blame. But change is possible.

In this energizing and hopeful episode of Harwood Half Hour, Rich Harwood discusses three questions we can each engage with to discover our shared hopes for a better tomorrow and practical ideas to get in motion in the new year.