Across Yale, an array of programs offers education and opportunities for our community to engage in constructive dialogue. Cultivating Conversation is proud to partner with many of them.
The Yale Center for Civic Thought aims to encourage thoughtful public discourse and civically responsible intellectual life in a rising generation of students, faculty, citizens, and leaders.
Chaplain’s Teas are a weekly series of talks running throughout the academic year where Maytal Saltiel, University Chaplain, has a conversation with faculty, members of the Yale community, and other guests around topics of meaning and purpose.
The Compassionate Dialogue Program at Yale School of Public Health trains all incoming students at the school in active listening and offers talks and workshops to the community.
Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis hosts faculty and guest experts to model respectful, curious, and candid conversation about difficult topics. The Dean’s Dialogues series provides a space for civil discussion and invites participants to engage across a diversity of viewpoints. Presented by the Yale College Dean’s Office and Yale Schwarzman Center and co-sponsored by Cultivating Conversation.
The Good Life Center aims to empower students with evidence-based skills for fostering mental, physical, social, and emotional well-being, and to cultivate a campus culture that promotes wellness as a fundamental, accessible human right. Yale College Community Care expands mental health and wellness support to Yale College’s diverse undergraduate student community.
The Poorvu Center is a hub for teaching and learning excellence at Yale, providing a wide array of resources and support for students and faculty across the university and beyond. The center’s Pedagogical Partners Program pairs undergraduate students and instructors in Yale College for critical dialogue about teaching and learning through a semester-long partnership.
Restorative practices are skills, strategies, and frameworks that help us form, strengthen, and mend our relationships with one another. Yale’s Restorative Practices team offers training, consultation, coaching, and some direct facilitation.
The Ronnie F. Heyman ’72 Crossing Divides Program at Yale Law School produces a formal speaker series that brings together high-profile leaders from opposite sides of major national debates to discuss how they bridge differences and work to understand each other.
In this series of talks hosted by President Maurie McInnis, leading experts visit Yale to share ideas and inspire critical thought on today’s most complex topics.
This public forum aims to foster respectful debate and intellectual exchange across differences. Yale Conversations are presented by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs in collaboration with the Office of the President and led by Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks.
From Yale School of the Environment, Yale Environmental Dialogue injects new energy and fresh thinking into the national conversation about sustainability, moving beyond partisan divides to develop the workable solutions we need to ensure a healthy future for ourselves and the planet.
Yale Learn & Grow offers learning opportunities for staff at the university.
The Office of Community Engagement and Dialogue (OCED) at Yale SOM leads efforts to foster a learning environment where students, faculty, staff, and alumni can engage across lines of difference with curiosity, empathy, and confidence.
The Office of Collaborative Excellence at Yale School of Medicine pursues collaborative excellence through the intentional cultivation of a broad range of perspectives and experiences to advance the three pillars of our mission: educating and nurturing leaders in medicine and science, advancing discovery and innovation, and caring for patients with compassion while improving the health of all.
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