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.
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.
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.
The first Dialogue Nights of 2024 operated under the assumption that stress is, in the words of event moderator Preandra Noel, a “shared reality” for all of us these days, whether it’s “with work, with relationships,” or just with “the state of the world.”
The Ikeda Center's 30th anniversary slate of events concluded with a Dialogue Nights devoted to the topic: “The Courage to Dialogue: The Surest Path to Peace.”
What does it take to restore our humanity? This simple but ambitious question served as the focus for the fourth Dialogue Nights of 2023, held on August 4th.
Meeting a core challenge put forth in Daisaku Ikeda’s 1993 Harvard lecture, "Mahayana Buddhism and 21st Century Civilization," the third Dialogue Nights explored the topic “What Can Death Teach Us About Life? A Conversation.”
Continuing the theme of exploring concepts from our founding lecture, the second Dialogue Nights of 2023 took up the essential Buddhist theme of interdependence.
