Being Persuasive with Climate Skeptics or Skills for Thanksgiving Dinner

November 10, 2010,
5:45pm - 7:30pm

Just in time for the requisite family discussions at Thanksgiving dinner: Learn how to be persuasive--rather than patronizing or angry-- with climate-skeptics.

Featuring:
Larry Suskind, a director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and founder of the Consensus Building Institute, explaining how to be persuasive
Todd Feinburg, a WRKO talk-show host, explaining why he is a skeptic
Dan Chavas, an MIT grad student, listing the top five persuasive facts about climate change, and
Dr. Sarah Conn, a psychologist, will explain how to frame the subject while using facts to communicate successfully.

It will all round up with you trying out your new skills on the skeptic to practice for Thanksgiving dinner with your less liberal relatives.