Adult Programs

Through this website, people can register to participate in civil debates on controversial issues of the day. The debates follow parliamentary rules, and are deliberately structured to bring people having different political beliefs together to search for collaborative solutions and common ground.

Go to this website to watch experts debate in a civil fashion current issues. You can register for paid monthly or annual subscriptions. Participants can ask questions tspeakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience.

The Better Arguments project is a national civic initiative to help bridge divides through equipping people to make “Better Arguments.” The emphasis is on civil, logical argumentation. The videos and other materials provide techniques that are useful to people in a variety of settings: in their personal lives, at the workplace, and as citizens.

This website advertises itself as the largest online, global site enabling people to debate a wide variety of issues online. It does through multiple formats, and is free.

Allows users to join and debate online current issues or to create new debate topics.

Co-founded by one of the nation's leading public intellectuals, Jonathan Haidt, this is a research-tested platform for schools, non profit and for profit organizations to conduct "hard conversations" with techniques adapted from debate. Proven record for facilitating agreement and reducing polarization

A text based platform with many debate topics for adults, who participate through text entries