Town Talks Live! believes WE can build community through shared stories, discussions, books, and topics of interest that matter to all. TTL provides regular opportunities for engagement to better represent ourselves and our communities, and, in doing so, heal the divide that keeps our country from moving forward and forming a more perfect union. Town Talks Live customizes each workshop as events unfold, with a fluid design to work toward strengthening conversations within our communities. Workshops will be offered, focusing on how to have conversations with others in one’s own circle of family & friends, and ripple out, as we listen to one another and begin to understand why we view things the way we do. Within this framework, we’ll begin to heal our relationships and our communities.

Let’s Talk: Saving Democracy One Conversation at a Time.

Let’s re-envision the town hall & other community gatherings, by learning how to talk to one another! We'll gather and share stories of who we are and why we are choosing to be engaged in Democracy! We'll give a "book tasting" from Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from a Culture of Contempt by Arthur Brooks, as well as visit conversation strategies from Monica Guzman’s book, I Never Thought of it That Way: How to have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Through our own personal stories, we'll discuss what most concerns us, listen to the concerns of others and practice for future political and policy discussions! Leave with strategies to help extend these conversations further into our communities, “rippling out” to others with perceived different views. New books are added to the tasting as situations develop, such as John Inazu’s book, Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy & Respect, as well as Rutger Bregman’s latest book, Moral Ambitiobn: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.

The 2026 workshop in this series, Policy Matters: Guided Conversataions for Civil Political Discourse

Each workshop will focus on a different policy issue, allowing us the time to listen and discuss to different perspectives and ideas. Maybe we can solve what Congress cannot! Guided group conversations will utilizine techniques from the previous workshop. If you were not able to make the first workshop, we’ll have the opportunity to sign on to the highlights of the “Norms” that keep conversations civil and productive that all will agree to ahead of time.

Topics may include Housing, Transportation, Energy, Healthcare & Education.

Click on Events to sign up! Bringing others into the fold? Have them sign up! Events will post monthly in the greater St. Louis area.