Lighthouse 2024

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How Can We Heal the Public Conversation?

Themes Discovered

Better public conversations will help us tackle social problems like loneliness, fake news and extremism, and global challenges like climate change and conflict.

  • FRAGMENTATION: Healing societal polarization and disengagement.

  • TRUST: in a world where truth is hard to discern.

  • TECH TOOLS: Technology, business and the evolving social contract.

  • HUMANITY: What is bringing us together, what is tearing us apart?

OutCome Summarized

10 Actions that needs leadership:

1. Build vehicles for more and better public conversation, digital and IRL

2. Define the process and principles of building a shared reality.

3. Train “public conversation” facilitators in a nation-wide processes, globally.

4. Spread the ethics of healthy public conversation.

5. In schools and media, lift the art of conversation and why it is needed.

6. Lift the responsibility of citizenship in schools.

7. Promote lifetime continuous learning

8. Define tools to navigate complexity and uncertainty – for media and leaders.

9. Lift the value of reflection for better decision-making.

10. Nurture understanding of critical thinking and healthy anger in constructive conversation.