The Great Reframing - NaPodPoMo 2025 Day 18

Day 17 of our 30-day challenge exploring what it really takes to bridge our divides.In this episode, we explore a promising shift in how we navigate conflict and polarization: the great reframing.After spending more than two weeks unpacking the incentives driving outrage—misinformation, media dynamics, and our increasingly tribal political landscape—today we turn toward solutions.The great reframing challenges the belief that the core of our national division lies in other people—their misinformation, their extremism, their intentions. Instead, this perspective asks us to recognize the role we each play: how our interactions, assumptions, and habitual “us vs. them” framing reinforce the very problem we want to solve.Real change begins when we shift our own mindset. We can’t control the other side, but we can control how we show up in the conversation.To help us unpack this transformative approach, we hear from Guy and Heidi Burgess of Beyond Intractability, who have spent decades studying conflict resolution and the root dynamics of polarization.Learn more: OutrageOverload.netJoin the movement to lower the temperature: Count Me In for Calm Get full access to Outrage Overload Newsletter at outrageoverload.substack.com/subscribe