Shaka Sydnor on Hope

Shake Sydnor shares a 12 minute Spark Talk on Hope at our September Deeper Dialogues.

WHAT IS THE DEEPER DIALOGUES INITIATIVE AT UVA?

Deeper Dialogues is a series of facilitated and structured small-group conversations around five topics of human flourishing taking place through June 2022. It is sponsored by Theological Horizons in partnership with Essential Partners. ALL ARE WELCOME.

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF DEEPER DIALOGUES?

The Deeper Dialogues initiative has three primary goals:

● To convene a variety of stakeholders — faculty, students, staff & administrators — from across the university community to improve understanding and connection around common challenges and goals;

● To leverage the unique resources of the university context (e.g. intellectual curiosity, original research, physical proximity) to facilitate honest exchange and promote greater collaboration between and among various members of the university community; AND

● To give community members an experience of reflective structured dialogue in which conversations of meaning and purpose foster a university culture of greater compassion and care, with the added hope that participants will leave equipped with dialogic communication tools transferable to other UVA spaces, groups and discussions.