In Fall 2025, realtalk@MIT supported the UA’s participatory budgeting cycle, providing bottom-up sensemaking by clustering PB suggestions, and spotlighting community voices in conversation about what to do with the funds.

We are collaborating with the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center to support conversations about how to create a career where we can live out our values proudly.

We collaborated with MIT’s Radius program to host conversations about personal experiences when our values collide with funding sources in work or research

In collaboration with the Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life (ORSEL), we have developed a unique conversation experience which guides students through meditative reflection and personal sharing around the prompt: “What is your guiding light?”

With support from the MAS team, we gathered graduating Master’s and PhD students at the Media Lab over lunch and helped them reflect on their time here and how to make meaning of it during a busy period of transition.

DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers into an experiment in how we gather, listen, and be in conversation with one another. ​

In Spring 2025, realtalk@MIT partnered with WRAP (the MIT Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program) to support groups of lecturers in reflecting on their work, their collective identity, and the future of their program.

In January 2025, nineteen undergraduate delegates came together for a three-day Student Assembly on Sustainability to learn, deliberate, and vote on a set of recommendations for the MIT Office of Sustainability.

Students across MIT dorms shared meaningful moments within their communities, and their hopes for the future of their unique dorm cultures.

We collaborated with the MIT Systems Awareness Lab in 2024 on a small pilot study conducted in the Fall of 2024.

In spring 2022, CCC launched a realtalk@MIT pilot with the support of the MIT Values Statement Committee and the Office of the Provost.

The realtalk@MIT team worked to design a program that could include MIT students and staff both on-campus and off.

Students were invited to reflect on the values they intended to bring to MIT and talk through their anxiety and hopes for the exciting year ahead.