Listening, Loving, Acting Together

My Neighbor’s Voice invites you to share your stories and perspectives. Join us for community conversations that will give you hope.

The mission of My Neighbor’s Voice is to create purposeful and productive community connections. Using MNV Listening Cards and a moderated format, we provide a safe and hospitable space in which everyone is invited to share their personal stories, thoughts, and opinions about how to best live together. It’s through deeply listening that we deeply connect, and when we are connected, we are resilient.

Our Directors, Victoria and Mary Anne recently sat down with Ame Sanders of the State Of Inclusion Podcast to talk about Listening and how My Neighbor's Voice embarks on this act of Love.  Listen to the latest episode below!

How It Works:


My Neighbor’s Voice uses a deck of Listening Cards to guide each session. These universal community questions cover nine different categories: Hello Neighbor, Political Thought, Our Society, Environment and Health, Civic Rights and Responsibilities, American Culture, Sacred Thought, Our World, and Home and Hearth. In our gatherings, each participant gets a question and then has up to three minutes to share their perspective on the topic. As each person answers their question, no one is allowed to respond, comment, or interrupt. When the time is up, the next person gets a new question and the process repeats. A moderator will keep the time.

Whether these questions are used with a friend over coffee or in a meeting with strangers, the purpose of My Neighbor's Voice is to simply allow our neighbors to share their stories and for us to hear them with generosity. With participants having the freedom to speak openly about the things that matter most, we can all discover deep truths in one another’s perspectives. Through these intentional gatherings, we can address community issues with hope and a productive way forward.

Here are a few of the questions you might encounter:

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Please reach out to us at myneighborsvoice@gmail.com if you are interested in any of our services or programs. We are happy to have you join us in our work to end civic discord.

 Our Freedom of Speech requires a responsibility to listen

We believe that what we are doing at My Neighbor’s Voice is offering a better way for us all of us to communicate, particularly in an age of divisive social media and partisan politics. In our forums, we find common purpose even if common solutions are elusive. In bringing people together to listen to one another’s views, we are challenging barriers of distrust and disrespect across ideological lines.

We build more vibrant communities because our model builds on respect for one another using a sustainable model. It is precisely this kind of connection that will keep our neighbors from choosing to support or participate in violence like we saw in Charlottesville, El Paso, Dayton, Charleston, and so many other American towns and cities as well as find ways to positively address racial disparity and discrimination. We also believe that this is exactly the work we need to be doing to create a more perfect union.

Please take this opportunity to join in one of our forums and see how we can build stronger communities, by building each other up, not tearing each other down, either physically or verbally. We look forward to hearing your voice!