I'm Right and You're a Fool: Bridging Polarization Through Empathy

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Portrait of Christa Kirby

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Christa Kirby — Licensed psychotherapist; VP of Talent Development and Global Practice Director for Management and Leadership at Corporate Education Group

A licensed psychotherapist, Christa integrates her global experience as a mental health professional with her passion for holistically developing leaders and teams, with work spanning North America, Europe, and countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Ethiopia, India, and Singapore.

About this webinar

It has never been easier to write off the people who disagree with us. When a belief becomes part of who we are, the person on the other side of it stops looking like a person with a different view and starts looking like a fool — or worse. Misinformation, tribalism, and toxic rhetoric only accelerate the slide from disagreement to dehumanization.

In this interactive webinar, licensed psychotherapist Christa Kirby explores how polarization takes hold when identity and belief intertwine, and how empathy can transform adversarial debate into respectful dialogue. It’s not about abandoning your convictions — it’s about staying in genuine conversation across even deeply held differences, in a way that restores the humanity on both sides.

What you’ll learn

Why polarization intensifies — how misinformation, tribalism, and toxic rhetoric amplify division.

Identity and belief — how our sense of self gets tangled up in what we believe to be true.

Debate versus dialogue — the shift from trying to win to trying to understand.

Empathy as a bridge — practical ways to use empathy to connect across deeply held differences.

Dialogue without surrender — staying in respectful conversation without abandoning your own values.

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This webinar opens the conversation; CEG’s management and leadership programs build the capability — communication, emotional intelligence, and the facilitation skills that keep teams in productive dialogue across difference.

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