In our current globalized century, the world is more religiously diverse than at any other point in history. Frequently, religious and belief-based conflicts divide communities and cultures. These divisions are often exacerbated when religious and spiritual diversity is complicated by our political, national, ethnic, and gender identities. This seminar offers an investigation into pluralism, understood as active engagement with diversity towards a positive end. We will learn pluralistic communication skills such as active listening, storytelling, empathy and self-care. We will practice those skills in meaningful encounters with people of differing religious, spiritual and secular beliefs as a way to build social cohesion and bridge divides. Regardless of discipline or career path, governments, employers and communities need citizens who can initiate, facilitate, and skillfully guide difficult yet transformative conversations across diverse belief identities. Join this seminar and become a more socially competent communicator and bridge builder with those who orient around religion differently than you do.