How do you stay present and centered when communicating with someone different? How do you claim your voice and stay open to new and challenging ways of looking at the world? Sacred Conversations invites students to develop communication and self-reflection as grounded, real world practices of attention, curiosity, responsibility, and understanding. Through dialogue, writing, and experiential learning outside, students explore how your personal voice is formed in relationship with others and how meaning emerges through lived experience. Drawing from interfaith phenomenology, Jewish Mussar-inspired attention to ethics and character with eco-chaplaincy approaches, the course treats conversation as a lived practice rather than an abstract skill. Students examine how identity and meaning are shaped through encounter, place, ancestry, and connection with the more-than-human world.