Part I
Decode
Why good people disagree: values, generations, history and the stages of a life.
- The Spiral at Your Table
- When You Arrived
- Windows of Becoming
- Finding Your Coordinates
The Culture War Code
How to Make Peace at the Kitchen Table (and Maybe Save the Country Too)
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The book
The Culture War Code
How to Make Peace at the Kitchen Table (and Maybe Save the Country Too)
by Jamie Murray
Every family has a fight that keeps coming back. This book explains why good people disagree, and gives you simple tools to turn that fight into a conversation.
It brings together Spiral Dynamics, generational history and developmental psychology — research-informed, not proven — and turns them into practices anyone can use at the kitchen table, at work and in town.
What’s inside
Four parts, one practice.
Part II
Translate
The tools that turn a fight into a conversation, and one fight followed from start to finish.
- The Kitchen Table Translator
- One Fight, Start to Finish
Part III
Decide
How to get unstuck, and how to tell when a bridge can’t be built yet.
- Breaking Through
- When Bridges Can’t Be Built (Yet)
Part IV
Widen
Taking the practice from your table to your workplace, school board and town.
- From Your Table to the Town Square
Plus the Conclusion, “Welcome Home,” and four appendices: The Spiral at a Glance, Your Generational Decoder Ring, The Bridge-Builder’s Toolkit, and Resources for Bridge-Builders.
After you read it
What you’ll be able to do.
- Spot what someone is protecting, even in the middle of an argument.
- Read the four coordinates behind a view: values, generation, history and stage of life.
- Run a 5-Minute Peace Treaty with someone you love and disagree with.
- Know when to stop: four questions to ask before any hard topic.
- Bring the practice to your workplace, your school board or your town.
“None of this asks you to fix the country, or to become a wiser person before you start.”
From Chapter 9
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About the author
Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray writes about why good people disagree, and how families, workplaces and towns can learn to disagree better.