Cultivating Conversation Events and Related Activities
Past Events
Speed Friending
November 20, 2025
Yale staff members made new connections over lunch at a Speed Friending event sponsored by Cultivating Conversation, Future Leaders of Yale, and Being Well at Yale. Question cards at each table offered plenty of conversation topics, and participants rotated tables for the chance to talk with everyone in the room.
October 28, 2025
In this interactive workshop open to all Yale staff members, participants learned how to ask better questions to create space for productive dialogue. Led by Dan Rothstein and Naomi Campbell of the Right Question Institute, staff members practiced formulating questions to enhance problem-solving, decision-making capacity, and leadership abilities. Read more.
September 24, 2025
Award-winning journalist Ann Curry explores how humanity and ethics in journalism can help us engage with one another despite differing perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs. Drawing from her extensive career covering global conflicts and crises, Curry references storytelling’s power to foster understanding and meaningful dialogue. The event was facilitated by Kimberly Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president of university life at Yale, and co-hosted by Cultivating Conversation and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Read more.