and qantas with us -- celeste headlee is with us courtesy of the state university, celeste is host of the georgia public broadcasting program on second thought as well as previous cohost of the takeaway and midwest correspondent for national public radio and classically trained soprano. in between all this she has written a book called "we need to talk: how to have conversations that matter". a very good book about communications and one that i will have my wife read very soon. please give me a warm welcome fuzz to celeste headlee. [applause] >> i am a buddhist so this feels uncomfortable. we tried it the other way for a long time. for generation after generation we have taught our children and ourselves that if something will cause an argument we don't talk about it. it used to be we didn't talk about politics and religion. now we have added race, we have added climate change and guns. eventually we are going to just add everything until we are just not talking about anything difficult anymore. we don't talk to people unless they agree with you and you don't talk to people if you're

[laughter] >> please give me a warm welcome to celeste headlee. [applause] >> i am a buddhist so this feels a little uncomfortable ( we tried it the other way for a long time for generation after generation we talk about children and ourselves into something causes an argument we don't talk about it used to be we didn't talkal about politics that we have added race, climate change and eventually we will add everything to not talk about anything that is difficult anymore and we don't talk to people mess they agree with you or that if you will be challenged and you cannot learn anything new about the subject otherwise forgive me if i get a little emotional because after the shooting in florida last week i see these headline saying it is unspeakable tragedy but it is not the couple. we have to speak about it. [applause] but honestly i could not care less your views. all of us are most of us have people in her families that disagree with h us that is what makes holiday so awkward. [laughter] you can get along with people who don't agree withso you. yo

we kick off this weekend with journalist celeste headlee who offers communication strategies to improve civil discourse. this