Curiosity is an essential starting point for meaningful connection across differences. In this introductory course, you’ll explore the skills and practices that help us approach conversations about faith, identity, and lived experience with greater awareness and openness. Together, we’ll examine how the language we use shapes understanding, how the same words can hold different meanings for different people, and what makes a question thoughtful, respectful, and genuinely curious.

What you will learn:

• Develop greater awareness of language and assumptions by exploring how the words and terms we use can carry different meanings, histories, and experiences for different people.
• Strengthen your ability to ask thoughtful questions by considering how questions can invite openness, create connection, or unintentionally create barriers.
• Practice the art of curious inquiry through opportunities to develop and refine questions that communicate respect, openness, and a genuine desire to understand.
• Deepen your self-awareness and understanding of others by recognizing that learning across differences is not only about discovering someone else’s perspective—it is also an opportunity to reflect on your own experiences, assumptions, and ways of seeing the world.

Whether you are beginning a journey of religious understanding, working in a diverse community, or simply seeking to become a more curious neighbor, this course offers practical tools you can begin using right away.

Certificate in Religious Literacy and Interfaith Engagement
Practice Curiosity is the fundamental course in the Religious Literacy and Interfaith Engagement Certificate Program. To earn the certificate, participants must complete Practice Curiousity plus 5 additional Everday Faith sessions (listed below).

• Thursday, September 3, 4:00-5:30 — Judaism

• Thursday, October 22, 4:00–5:30 PM — Hinduism

• Wednesday, November 11, 4:00–5:30 PM — Indigenous Traditions

• Thursday, December 10, 4:00–5:30 PM — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Wednesday, January 27, 4:00–5:30 PM — Islam

• Wednesday, February 24, 4:00–5:30 PM — Christianity

• Thursday, March 18, 4:00–5:30 PM — Buddhism

• Thursday, April 15, 4:00–5:30 PM — Paganism

• Wednesday, May 12, 4:00–5:30 PM — Quakerism