We do not live in a post-racial nation, the 2012 "Portraits of American Life Study" suggests, but in a land of two Americas divided by race, and less willing than ever to find a common ground of understanding.
Repeated discussions among the authors regarding the interpretation of data as well as the cultural context facilitated a common ground of understanding and consensus on the meaning of the data.
Training and education for all stakeholders, including patients, would help to achieve common language and common grounds for understanding the benefits of and the 'how-to' of patient engagement.
Rather it aims to provide common ground for understanding the current state of California school finance and governance and for a serious and substantive conversation about necessary reforms.
Moments of crisis can bring people together and provide common ground for understanding if we stay away from blame and vilification.
As such this collaborative process should be built upon increased patient participation and dialog, in order to find common ground and understanding about the direction and goals of the care.
This can be achieved by taking advantage of the communal ritual of breaking bread, which is conducive to finding common ground and understanding the other person.
While one side speaks, the other is seeking vulnerabilities, not common ground or understanding.
Whether you're a literary or genre writer, working for page or the screen, you'll leave the course with new perspectives on your own work and a greater understanding of the neurological common ground of all audiences.
Game-changing concepts are few and far between, not because the people in the room are incapable of game changing concepts, but because there is no common, fertile ground of understanding, no incubation, no real readiness for what is about to transpire -- or could.
