Canvassing on Climate – The Power of Listening to Persuade

The Yale Center for Environmental Communication invites you to a conversation on deep canvassing around climate change moderated by Dr. Joshua Kalla, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and featuring Montana Burgess, Executive Director of Neighbours United and Steve Deline, Co-Founder at The New Conversation Initiative.

“Deep canvassing” is an outreach method that persuades by listening to people’s mixed feelings and thoughts without judgment, giving people a safe conversational space to resolve their internal conflict on an issue. Persuasion can be difficult on polarized issues like climate change. Studies by Josh Kalla and David Broockman found that persuasion effects from deep canvassing lasted up to 9 months–much longer than common campaign outreach methods.

This event is sponsored by the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and the Yale School of the Environment.

To register, go here.