Low commitment
Drop in every other week, come as you are. There's no homework and no experience required. The Civity Club is space where everyone belongs and is heard from day one.
Civity Club is where high schoolers practice talking across political, cultural, and personal divides.
Civity Club practices discourse in a way that's different from the adversarial format of debate clubs or the echo chambers of politics clubs.
Members answer the same personal prompt. The "faceless opponent" becomes a familiar, relatable human being.
We discuss contentious issues that matter to high schoolers, focused on understanding the other's view.
No group-wide debates, no long lectures. Just short exercises and breakout discussions of two or three.
Chapters practice building relationships and then disagreeing respectfully. Norms are read outloud before every meeting. Each chapter builds upon these four to make them their own.
Walk through a meetingShare airtime
Be curious before pushing back
Challenge ideas, never people
No ad hominem
The facilitator restates the norms and names the topics of discussion for the day.
A quick share around the circle to get everyone talking and warmed up.
Groups of 2–3 answer a question that reveals a "level 4–5 out of 10" about who someone really is.
Same groups pick a topic where they disagree and discuss with respect. Focus is on understanding the other perspective.
Everyone shares one thing they came to understand about the opposing viewpoint from their breakout.
The Civity Club is where you come to relax and engage freely with fellow classmates. There is no judgement or pressure.
Drop in every other week, come as you are. There's no homework and no experience required. The Civity Club is space where everyone belongs and is heard from day one.
Have something on your mind? If it matters to you, it's fair game. Heads give topic guidance, but members suggest ideas at the end of each meeting, and decide what to discuss in breakouts.
Civity is about building a real community across your whole school. Chapters are encouraged to take on the questions and tensions relevant to their own student body, not just headlines.
Every new club head receives $100 in club funding to get their chapter off the ground. Used for snacks, supplies, and whatever else helps get the conversation going.
Chapters grow one student at a time. We need you to join the movement.
Apply to become a chapter head. We recruit one motivated student at a time. No experience required.
Join a dedicated training meeting run by Malka and Palma, Civity founders. You'll learn the method firsthand.
Receive your $100 in startup funding. Recruit your first members. Hold your first 45-minute meeting using the ready-made format.
Not at all. Civity is about the skill of disagreeing well. Discussion topics are contentious issues relevant to high schoolers, but not politically divisive.
Meetings are 45 minutes, every other week. Because every meeting follows the same clear format, prep is light once you've been trained.
It's startup money for your chapter that helps you gather members and create a warm environment with snacks and drinks. Every chapter head recieves it.
The opposite. There are no group-wide debates and no lectures. The goal is to understand the other person's perspective and reduce animosity, never to win an argument or force agreement.
No Problem. Civity clubs are about creating welcoming communities of productive discourse. Civity clubs aren't high commitment activities that will compete with existing clubs.