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Challenging Conversations: Using Values-Based Narratives to Build Healthy Communities

Written by Build Healthy Places Staff on June 4, 2025

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Recent years have seen a focus on the increasing division in the national dialogue, particularly around issues of race and equity. Now more than ever, we need spaces where we can collectively identify our shared values to build support to advance health for all.

Join us on Monday, June 30, from 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET / 10:00–11:30 a.m. PT for a Network Commons webinar exploring how public health and community development practitioners can leverage the power of solidarity to reshape the narratives that drive systems-level change. 

This live conversation will offer strategies on navigating difficult conversations and examine ways to build connections across sectors to foster collaboration, belonging, and collective action.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leaders who are modeling what’s possible! Gain practical insights into using narratives, reflect on the tensions in determining language selection for conformity versus conviction, and hear from leaders who work to connect across differences and mobilize partners to advance long-term, systems-level change.

Register for the Network Commons here!