Updates

The second edition of the Ikeda Center’s new Dialogue Nights Lite series was held on October 4, 2024, providing attendees with the chance to hone their dialoguing skills.

A high-spirited crowd of more than 50 attendees gathered for this August 2024 event, which focused on the ways that all of us can healthily navigate the modern world, full of so many anxiety-inducing factors and forces.

The 2024 edition of the annual Indigo Talks featured a longtime friend of the Ikeda Center, Dr. Andrea Bartoli, whose talk was called “Opening Pathways to Peace: The Role of Dialogue in Times of Conflict.”

After hosting more than 30 successful and engaging Dialogue Nights events, on July 19, 2024, the Ikeda Center debuted Dialogue Nights Lite,  designed to help participants learn and strengthen their dialogue skills to better connect with people in their lives.

For the fourth (2024) iteration of the annual Global Citizens Seminar, seven Boston-area doctoral students gathered at the Ikeda Center to share their own stories as global citizens and engage in dialogue on key issues and challenges in the endeavor to create local and global cultures of peace.

The June 2024 Dialogue Nights responded to the sense of isolation people feel even with the connectivity enabled by technology.

In May 2024 a group of students, scholars, and activists came together to make the case for educating as many people as possible not only about the imminent dangers and consequences of nuclear war, but also about the very real pathways to global nuclear disarmament.

The highest-attended Dialogue Nights since the easing of pandemic restrictions tackled the perennial question of how best to recognize one’s most authentic self and bring it to all one’s interactions.

In our introductory video staff members and friends from our network offer impressions of what makes the Ikeda Center unique.