🎙️ This week on Conflict Managed, join me in welcoming featured guest Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, Deputy Director of Strategic Advocacy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Tune in as we delve into: 👂 Discovering shared values with deep listening. 🌟 Seeing the person beyond their beliefs. 🤝 Moving past workplace competition to collaboration 🔍 Understanding the how’s and why’s of building relationships. ❤️ Uncovering what truly matters to others. 🌱 Nurturing deeper connections in the workplace.   As FCNL’s deputy director of Strategic Advocacy, Sarah Freeman-Woolpert is responsible for deepening and expanding the Advocacy Teams program, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice. Since 2018, Sarah has trained and organized FCNL’s grassroots network, and has contributed to the broader base-building work of the Strategic Advocacy Team. Sarah has trained hundreds of people to lobby, strengthened FCNL’s intersectional approach to grassroots advocacy, and mobilized new constituencies to take action with FCNL. Sarah is a former correspondent and associate editor at WagingNonviolence.org, a people-powered news source examining grassroots struggles for peace and justice around the globe. She has also served as a board member for Učimo, an educational nonprofit in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Sarah holds a master’s degree in human rights and democracy in Southeast Europe from the University of Sarajevo. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs with a focus on conflict resolution from The George Washington University.   A native of Pembroke, New Hampshire, Sarah was raised in the Concord Friends Meeting.  Conflict Managed is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services (3pconflictrestoration.com).