Let's build a neighborhood.

Let's do something that hasn't been done before.

(upbeat music) I'm Wendy Goldberg.

I'm the executive director and the co-founder of the Tri-Faith Initiative in Omaha, Nebraska.

[Narrator] Tri-Faith is a unique project with Jewish, Muslim, and Christian congregations worshiping and learning about each other on one Omaha campus.

Connected by an interfaith center providing opportunities to learn and interact.

Small gatherings and big events, even a community garden bring people from all three faiths and the general public together.

The idea was born from post 9/11 conversations among different faith leaders.

It's hard.

People disagree.

People get uncomfortable, and yet it's beautiful, right?

[Narrator] As a founding board member and former executive director, Wendy was involved with Tri-Faith for two decades.

She's also worked with several other nonprofits and holds a master's degree in communication and media studies.

Hi, my name is Braxton.

What are some ways that you are still learning?

I'm still learning how to be curious, how to open myself to someone who I am not on the face of a conversation in line with, and to find ways to ask questions and be curious in a manner that invites them to tell them how they came to their closely held belief.

With an opportunity for me to listen deeply for them to help me hear them in a way that I might not have otherwise imagined.

Hi, my name is Giovanna.

And what does it mean to take risks?

Taking risks is about getting uncomfortable, and for me, taking risks is about finding a path to empathy.

And empathy, as I come to understand it, is not about walking in someone else's shoes.

I don't think we can really ever do that.

Empathy and that risk, the edge of empathy is hearing someone else's story, believing it to be true, getting uncomfortable, and being uncomfortable in realizing my own accountability.

And it is the accountability measure that is the risk to allow space to happen.

Hi, my name is Breanna.

How does collaborating with others help you?

Collaboration is an opportunity to move beyond a single narrative and to invite kind of a mess and in messy nonhomogenous groups, we have space to open ourselves to different ways of thinking, to different sectors of ideas, to different opportunities for resources, and I have ended up through collaboration to be in a growth mindset.

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