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Our society is enduring a form of escalated and destructive conflict that—left unaddressed—is known to unravel communities, hamstring problem-solving, erode democracy, and foment hatred and violence.
Research shows we’re living with massive “perception gaps”—a distorted understanding of who our counterparts are, what they think and why, and how they relate to us. These perceptions breed distrust and cycles of conflict that make everything we care about harder to address.
Our programs bring about healthy engagement across divides on multiple levels:
Catalytic Training that ripples through institutions, builds will and skill for constructive conflict, and makes it possible to sustain community across our differences.
Transformative Encounters that forge trust, bonds, collaboration, and a shared sense of “we,” even in the face of adversarialism and fear.
Mass Storytelling that harnesses TV, film, and media to transport us into each other’s worlds and ignite collective imagination for a shared life.
RTT activates leaders who have outsized influence through their work in Hollywood, faith communities, higher education, and more.
An external evaluation in 2024 shows the sustained ripples of our training, with our alumni disseminating RTT tools to promote healthy engagement across divides in their institutions, sectors, and leadership.
direct participants, in turn reaching an estimated 2,000,000+ Americans
states reached
of RTT alumni continue to use tools and skills 5+ years later
This training has encouraged me to lean into difference as a gift that can reveal, rather than as a problem to be fixed or avoided... Entering into the differences and hearing the nuance of the other’s position gives a far deeper well of creativity and relationship out of which to seek a common way forward.”
Though many of us in this industry consider ourselves open and empathetic, RTT’s tangible strategies for having meaningful connection across divides makes that actionable.
RTT creates an environment in which vulnerability is welcome and growth is empowered. I want to emphasize the actionable part—it’s so helpful to have concrete tools that will allow us to dig deeper into the material that we’re working on and create more honest portraits of the people we don’t yet understand.”
Getting RTT technology out into the community is hugely beneficial and exactly what is needed at this divisive moment in our politics….
RTT has created an impressive, brilliant framework for facilitating difficult conversations—about anything. Their insights about what people need, and about what a conversation needs, in order to be resilient, interesting, and meaningful are revolutionary.... [RTT’s trainers] are spectacular at what they do. Anyone who has to facilitate discussions on contentious issues in a way that is both civil and increases understanding would benefit by using RTT’s approach.”
RTT is a phenomenal organization that listens to the people and communities that they work with and adjusts to the need at hand. These conversations are invaluable and will pay big dividends in strengthening our community and world.”
The Resetting the Table program was pivotal for me. I have been convening Muslims and Jews in difficult conversations for 15 years, and feel like the skills and support I received in this training will help me do my work better. I feel more confident diving into the differences.”
In 2014, RTT’s founders saw that a proxy war around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the U.S. had many harmful ripples. Grounded in decades of experience as practitioners and scholars, they innovated a research-backed methodology that supports opposing parties to investigate charged political differences and come out the other side with stronger relationships, insight, and capacity to solve problems. In 2016, they saw that America was degenerating into its own intractable conflict and that RTT’s toolkit was needed much more broadly in the U.S.
