Make Big Talk
Join the Movement! Below are ways to make Big Talk.
Bring Big Talk to your campus and help foster social well-being, while promoting empathetic and open communication across your diverse student population!
While university/school can be an excellent opportunity for students to develop their social skills, an increasing number have reported feelings of depression, anxiety, disconnection, and isolation. To help combat loneliness, foster empathy amidst diversity, and promote social well-being, these universities have already introduced Big Talk programming to their campuses.
Foster Empathy and Confidence by Introducing Big Talk to Your Campus
Bringing Big Talk into students’ lives can help them feel more empathetically connected, less anxious and depressed, happier, and confident in their schoolwork. Whether you’re faculty, staff, or a student, you can apply Big Talk to help bring your community together.
Faculty
Host a Big Talk Workshop, Event, or Continuing Education Program. The founder and CEO, Kalina, delivers lectures and workshops all around the world to help others develop more meaningful connections.
Students
Skip the small talk of “What’s your field of study?” and “Where are you from?” to make more meaningful longer-lasting relationships. Become a Big Talk ambassador and become a leader at your school to help classmates feel more connected to each other.
Teachers
Using Big Talk Question Cards at the beginning of class is a great way to establish trust, understanding, and rapport. Big Talk has helped students feel more comfortable asking questions and sharing new ideas and perspectives.
Clubs and Sports
Conducting Big Talk Sessions with teammates or club members can help build more authentic relationships, which have been shown to nurture more supportive, comfortable, and social group settings.
Big Talk at Networking Events and Conferences
We create programming for keynote presentations, workshops, social events, and continuing education – as well as custom university-branded card decks.
Big Talk helped a LOT to break down potential barriers and make us all feel a lot more comfortable. The breakout group strategy was helpful in that it gave each of us a lot of choice about what we wanted to share with the group and how vulnerable we wanted to be, which worked out beautifully as people really started to open up over the course of the discussion, providing a great foundation for subsequent reflective sessions in our first week.
First-Year Student, Harvard Medical School
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