Listen. Learn. Discuss.
Skills for Challenging Conversations

About Listen. Learn. Discuss.

Listen. Learn. Discuss. launched in August 2024, after collaboration and feedback from students, staff and faculty, as a centralized, online resource for courses, workshops, and events that give the university community opportunities to navigate difficult conversations, whenever and wherever they take place — in the classroom, on the Oval or in the workplace.

The initiative helps students, faculty and staff draw connections and form skills to create a wide, but still nimble, path that teaches and promotes more productive and respectful dialogue. We can leverage this common ground to engage with one another in a way that is respectful and caring, even — and especially when — we disagree.

Resources

Programming, both inside and outside of the classroom, and opportunities for faculty and staff to learn skills and engage in civil discourse are woven throughout our Buckeye community. Modeling civil discourse one of the ways we live our Shared Values as well as fulfill our motto of “Education for Citizenship.” 

Listen. Learn. Discuss. is a set of skill-based resources focused on helping members of our community respectfully listen and discuss different points of view, build trust with one another, learn how to clearly articulate their points of view and successfully navigate complex conversations — on and beyond Ohio State campuses. 

Please make these your own. Tailor the messages to reach your needs, highlight unique resources available to your stakeholders, and leaders within your community who model civil discourse skills.