Reuniting America
About Us
Reuniting America: Engaging Across the Divides
Reuniting America convenes leaders from across the spectrum in transpartisan gatherings. Our goal is to build trust and deepen relationships among national leaders in order to identify and support collaborative action on issues of national concern. Reuniting America is guided by a unique, transpartisan Steering Committee.
Transpartisan Leadership Retreats
Reuniting America has convened seven private, multi-day, professionally facilitated retreat dialogues among top leaders from groups as diverse as Common Cause, Christian Coalition, Americans for Tax Reform, American Conservative Union, American Legion, AARP, MoveOn.org, League of Women Voters and others
These expertly facilitated meetings create trust and deepen understanding of differences. The outcomes are new relationships, new transpartisan coalitions and working groups, and the beginnings of more politically integrated solutions to America's pressing needs.
Third Conference on Democracy in America, September 2007
BACKGROUND
From September 18-21, 2007, over the three day conference, 41 leaders gathered at Wye River for a retreat facilitated by two experts in political dialogue, Mark Gerzon and Donna Zajonc.
Lead Facilitators
Transpartisan Dialogue on Iran, September 2007
Aspen Wye River, Queenstown, Maryland
September 6-8, 2007
A group of high-level foreign policy leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Wye River to discuss the serious issue of US relations with Iran.
Transpartisan Women's Leadership Retreat, January 2007
A private retreat among women leaders as divergent as Joan Blades, Co-founder, MoveOn.org and Roberta Combs, Chairperson, Christian Coalition. Out of the retreat among 30 women leaders from across the political spectrum emerged working groups to include -- Ground Rules for Democracy, Energy Security and Climate Change, Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties, Health and Wellness, and Family Centered Policies.
Transpartisan Search for National Energy Security, June 2006
Gold Lake Mountain Resort and Spa, Ward, Colorado
June 4-7, 2006
A private retreat on long term national energy security and climate change among leaders and experts as divergent as Vice President Al Gore and Fred Smith, President, Competitve Enterprise Institute. See video.
Participants:
Transpartisan Search for Citizen Engagement at Scale, May 2006
Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 18-21, 2006
Second Conference on Democracy in America, December 2005
“A Trans-Partisan Leadership Retreat”
Gold Lake Mountain Resort and Spa, Ward, Colorado
RETREAT PURPOSE
According to Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 author of Democracy in America, political and civil associations are the guarantors of freedom in a democracy. The three day gathering December 1-4 among leaders of national political and civil associations -- approximately 1/3 generally perceived to be left of center, 1/3 generally perceived to be right of center, and 1/3 generally perceived to be unaligned -- was intended to build bridges of trust, respect and communication by engaging in facilitated dialogue about the values that unite us as Americans, and areas of mutual concern and potential transpartisan cooperation.
First Conference on Democracy in America, June 2004
Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan
June 11-13, 2004
Dave Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union talks with Bob Barr, former member U.S. Congress for Georgia and Board member of the NRA, Gary Aldrich, Founder, Patrick Henry Center, and Laura Chasin, Founder, Public Conversations Project.