Braver Angels eCourses
These free, self-paced online courses are designed to help individuals navigate political and personal divides with empathy, clarity, and courage. Each course takes approximately 40 minutes to complete and can be taken independently or in conjunction with Braver Angels workshops.Braver Angels
Skills for Bridging the Divide
Learn to communicate more effectively across political differences. Choose the "red" or "blue" version based on your leanings—each uses different examples but teaches the same skills. Not red or blue? Pick one for practice. You’re also welcome to take both.
Depolarizing Within
This course helps you become more aware of your own inner polarizer, learn to be critical without stereotyping or showing contempt, and build skills to respond constructively when conversations turn toward ridicule or dismissiveness.
Families & Politics
This course helps to deepen your understanding of why political differences in families are uniquely challenging, offers insight into common roles people play when these conversations go poorly, and provides strategies and skills for handling family political differences.
Skills for Social Media
This course teaches skills to avoid contributing to polarization on social media, decide when to engage or disengage, and interact more constructively. It focuses on your own behavior, not the broader social media climate.
Managing Difficult Conversations
Elected officials face growing polarization and incivility, requiring new skills to lead effectively. This course offers practical tools to handle tough conversations, reduce stress, build confidence, and find common ground—even with critics.
These eCourses are crafted by experts in communications and depolarization and provide an effective and “safe” way to interact with people in difficult situations. They can be taken stand-alone, before a workshop, or after a workshop. Each course takes approximately 40 minutes to complete.
