Divided We Fall
Schedule
Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
530 26th Ave N, Nashville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37209 | Nashville, TN
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How Our Brains May Be Setting Us Up for Political Polarization and What We Can Do about It. This presentation, by Courtney Duhring, walks through what neuroscience and social psychology reveal about why political polarization feels so visceral and hard to escape. When we're conditioned to see different viewpoints as threats, our nervous system responds accordingly - with fear, defensiveness, and sometimes aggression. These dynamics lead to dehumanization and moral exclusion, which shut down the kind of collaboration we desperately need. Understanding these patterns gives us real power to interrupt them. The presentation is designed to leave attendees with both insight and practical tools they can use in their everyday lives and communities.
Courtney Duhring is a Nashville resident, a master's student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Prescott College, and a clinical intern at Nashville Therapy Group.
https://nashvilletherapygroup.com/courtney-duhring.
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