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30 Wednesday, January 6, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CIVILITY: Multiple community meetings are on offer Continued from page 1 as churches, will meet noon to 1:30 p.m. for lunch at the Sisters fire station community hall, 301 S. Elm St., hosted by C4C. RSVP to C4C at 541-549-1482. Thursday evening, 5 to 7 p.m., C4C will host a free all- community meeting at the fire station community hall. No RSVP necessary. At each of the Thursday meetings, questionnaires will be available for citizens to complete and then, on Friday, January 15, 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the fire hall, there will be a “Next Steps” meeting, for anyone interested in hearing the results of the question- naires and helping to plan how and if to proceed with the Civility Project in Sisters. Those unable to attend a Thursday meeting are encour- aged to come to the Friday gathering. A graduate of University of Kansas in journalism with an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Karwath began his journalistic career as a reporter at one of America’s leading newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, where he eventually became the busi- ness editor, general manager and director of product devel- opment. As business editor, he led a team of reporters whose series on the downfall of the Arthur Anderson accounting firm in the Enron scandal was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Karwath’s career has involved other print, online, and broadcast journalism jobs in both Chicago and Duluth, MN, until he returned to Duluth in 2011 to establish North Coast Communications, where he serves as president and CEO. His firm helps large and small clients navigate the complex world of communi- cations and messaging. The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, which established the SYP project in 2003 to address difficulties the communi- ties were having in solv- ing difficult challenges, was Karwath’s first client and accounts for about half of his business. He serves as their national representative when inquiries regarding SYP are received from across the U.S. and the world. Karwath, who as a journal- ist first viewed SYP with skep- ticism and a mild disinterest, has experienced first-hand the positive impact of the proj- ect when bringing together disparate parties with deep- seated differences, as well as those who are in agreement but stuck in their process. In his experience with SYP, he has observed that breakdowns in process and communications usually come not from dealing with big issues but rather from not observing very simple tenets of civility, which allow every- one involved to feel heard and fairly treated. Often opportu- nities are missed or subopti- mized when the attitude is, “We know what they’re going to say before they say it; there’s no point in engaging.” When communities or organizations agree to adopt the SYP tenets of civility, or some version of them, they are agreeing to conduct them- selves and work on issues, being guided by the over- arching concept of “Is this process, communication, or action civil or not civil?” Karwath summed it up: “The SYP project provides a community of any kind with an intellectually simple, easy- to-understand set of tools…. SYP doesn’t provide a single ‘aha’ moment nor is it a one- time inoculation that is good for life.” Rather, it is a way to cre- ate a safe platform for people to respectfully communicate with each other in public photo provided Speak your Peace national spokesperson Rob Karwath will introduce the community-building initiative to Sisters January 14 and 15. meetings and organizational settings, to minimize divisive- ness and misunderstanding, and to maximize collaboration and creative problem-solving. For more information, contact Robyn Holdman 541-549-1482 or the SYP national office www.dsaspeak yourpeace.org. Local nonprofit promotes civility Citizens4Civility (C4C) is a local nonprofit corporation formed in 2015 by residents of Sisters Country who care deeply about the community. They came together around the idea that when citizens in a community are provided with tools for infor- mation, education, and com- munication, they will have every opportunity to create a safe and respectful platform Specializing in Central Oregon Rural Properties from which to work to improve business, economic, and social aspects in Sisters. They have observed over the past few years that Sisters Country has faced many challenges that have created controversy in the commu- nity. Communication often broke down and the qual- ity of the discourse became unproductive. As a volunteer-driven, grass-roots effort, their goal at this time is to give citizens an opportunity to become familiar with Speak Your Peace (SYP), a successful program that has been repli- cated in some 34 communi- ties around the country. Following the SYP intro- duction on January 14-15, and with community feed- back, C4C will assess how to move forward. 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