Bridging Through Collective Meaning-Making -NaPodPoMo 2025 Day 3

NaPodPoMo 2025 — 30 episodes in 30 days — exploring how we move from conflict to connection.


Today’s question comes from a participant at the Bridging Movement Summit:


Where have you seen community-wide visioning or collective meaning-making help cultivate shared goals and a long-term outlook?


To explore this, we turn to Matthew Cotton Jr., Race Discourse Officer at the Baha’i Office of Public Affairs (U.S.), who brings thoughtful, grounded insights on how communities create shared meaning across differences — and how that helps bridge divides in practice, not just in theory.


This is Day 3 of our month-long series answering real questions from real people about bridging divides — one bite at a time.


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