Our Work
Gender dialogues in Poland – the results
March 2025 | We have conducted five nationwide dialogues on gender relations in Poland. See the results!
Spring 2025 Good Conversation Workshops – with BASF Polska
April 2025 | We are offering five open workshops in May and June, sharing depolarization skills for use by citizens in families, workplace and public settings
Christmas 2024 social campaign – the results
December 2024 | A record 12 million people saw our “Let’s Talk This Christmas” campaign. This is one-third of Poland’s total population!
Dialogue series on the Warsaw Low Emission Zone – in progress
October 2024 | We are starting a local series of dialogues around the Warsaw Clean Transport Zone - addressing civic concerns about emission limits in the capital
Poland Talks: citizen-to-citizen conversations – the results
April 2024 | 1122 people from all over Poland registered for our experiment: having a conversation with a total stranger, holding different political views
Polarization: What does it really mean?
When democratic decision-making is no longer possible and efforts at community-building fail–this is how you know polarization is your problem
Dialogues: How do they work?
In a dialogue partipants holding opposing views can experience both ideological difference and personal proximity. Six breakthrough moments usually shape these exchanges
Community: The enemy of polarity
Community is the fabric of a living democracy. An invisible network, the sum of bonds people share beyond their private lives–this is what we would call a community
Election year dialogues 2023 – the results
The purpose of the project was to map Polish voters’ polarization on the election issues and to showcase an alternative way of discussing political differences during a highly divisive campaign.
Poles – More polarized than Americans
Poland is the second most-divided nation in the EU–and the potential source of remedy to the systemic challenge of polarization
Talking across the aisle – civic education videos
June 2024 | We have produced and released a series of five short videos, offering instructions how to bridge differences in personal and family settings
Dialogue vs. Debate – What’s the difference?
Debates are about winning and convincing people to change their minds. Dialogues are about accepting differences and learning to live with them
Dialogue toolbox for NGOs in Central Europe – published
February 2024 | In this guide for NGOs we are sharing the depolarization tools we have developed and applied in Poland since 2021
Let’s talk: A civic guide to difficult conversations – published
Febraury 2024 | Here is our guide to conducting conversations across political differences: how to approach and handle polarization one-on-one
2023 election year dialogues – the results
December 2023 | 122 citizens, representing different political camps, met in 10 online dialogues to discuss national identity, family policy, wall on the border to Belarus, EU-Poland relations
Dialogues on climate change 2023 – the results
November 2023 | We delivered 10 de-polarization dialogues on issues related to climate change. 122 people from across the country participated
Ukrainians in Poland: immigration dialogues – the results
May 2023 | In response to Russia’s agression on Ukraine and the resulting inflow of refugees into Poland, we launched a series of dialogues to ease Polish-Ukrainian integration