Upcoming Community Conversations

You’re warmly invited to join us for an upcoming Community Conversation, where we’ll be exploring the theme “Cultivating Joy in Difficult Times.” Life often presents us with challenges, but together, we can discover ways to uncover moments of joy, wellbeing, and connection, even when times are tough. Join us for an opportunity to reflect, share perspectives, and discuss personal philosophies.

This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community.

Recent shifts in immigration enforcement and immigration policy have changed things in our nation. Some may welcome the changes. For others, it has meant heightened fear, uncertainty, and mistrust - particularly among immigrant families and communities with close ties to immigration systems. Let’s come together to talk about immigration policy and ICE enforcement, including how we can support each other. These realities affect how people access education, healthcare, employment, and community spaces.

We invite you to a conversation on engaging with with diverse populations and communities. What assumptions have we made, and how have we (or have we not!) practiced with cultural humility? How have our experiences influenced the way we engage with others?

This is a safe space to be open about our experiences so that we can grow as individuals.  

This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community.

We invite you to a Community Conversation about Misinformation, Disinformation, and Misdirection on Friday, February 6, 2026 from 12-1PM.

We invite you to a Community Conversation around Reframing ADHD on Tuesday, January 20 from 12 pm to 1 pm.

The medical and mental health communities have traditionally conceptualized ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in completely deficit-oriented language. However, ADHD is a neurotype that comes with a unique blend of strengths and challenges (see this article). Let’s come together to talk about how we can reframe ADHD and better support people with ADHD.

We invite you to a Community Conversation around Living Restoratively.

We invite you to a Community Conversation on Grief.

Grief is a universal human experience, but it looks and feels different for everyone. Whether related to the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, changes in health, loss of identity, or a job transition, grief can deeply impact our lives in both visible and invisible ways. Join us for an open conversation about the many faces of grief—what it means, how it affects us, and how we navigate it as individuals and as a community.

We invite you to join an open and thoughtful Community Conversation about Health at Every Size. We live in a society that often views weight and health as one in the same; skinny = healthy, and fat = unhealthy. Fat bodies are villainized as “promoting unhealthy lifestyles” by people who don’t know any other aspects of someone’s health status. But what if our society approached health in a way that focuses not on weight or size, but on mental, emotional, social, spiritual, physical, and all types of health as parts of a bigger whole?

We invite you to a Community Conversation around Social Impact in the Corporate World

For the first time ever, The School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the School of Social Work (SSW) are partnering together to invite you to a joint Community Conversation around Social Impact in the Corporate World. We believe there is immense opportunity for us to learn from each other and explore the topic of social justice in the workplace together.

We invite you to a Community Conversation around Assisting Survivors in our Community

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Being a survivor of domestic violence can be extremely challenging both in the immediate aftermath of leaving an abuser and can also have a long term impact. Let's talk together as a community about how we can all support survivors of domestic violence. This is the third in a three part community conversation discussion series about domestic violence. You are invited to attend a single session or as many as you would like.