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Somehow in the wake of an election season that has built on fractures, decades in the making,

we are called now to consider who we want to be as a people and what kind of world we will build

with and for our children. I believe that across every divide of party and age and race and class

and geography, the vast majority of us don't want to live this way anymore. And my guest today,

Karen Murphy has been gathering wisdom for this juncture we're at as she's worked with teachers

and students across the world who are taking up the existential societal challenge of moving beyond

destabilizing and dehumanizing division. As the title of her organization suggests and the American

President demonstrates, this always entails facing history and ourselves, history as nothing more

and nothing less than the story of us. We learn much this hour about the work of repair ahead

and how to prepare ourselves for a great civic adventure in which the stakes are so high.

The thing that we hope that we're striving for, which is to actually imagine repair reconstruction

accountability is not going to be in a straight line. It's going to be messy. It's going to be

multi-generational, creating a foundation so that the young people who are in high school now

have firmer ground to stand upon. With this is a marathon and we need to carry the baton

a certain distance for them. I'm Chris DeTippet and this is on Beeing.

Karen Murphy creates curricula, trains teachers and leads global gatherings for facing history and

ourselves, which partners with over 100,000 teachers and their classrooms around the world.

A hallmark of this work is trusting the moral and civic intelligence of the young with a focus

on 11 to 18 year olds. Karen has worked from Rwanda to Columbia from South Africa to Northern Ireland

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