Learn, Think, Grow

WE BELIEVE

Traditional learning environments are not necessarily the best places to learn or to think or to integrate big ideas into everyday life anymore. Engaged and inspiring teaching and learning can happen just about anywhere: online, through homeschooling projects, via classes offered by businesses, in facilitated groups, and so on. These configurations and settings can have a long-lasting impact on individual learners and communities of all sizes.

WE KNOW

Combining differents areas of study (such as the arts, environmental science & literature) provides vital avenues into problem-solving and collaborative work. The world of ideas need not be separate from the world of daily life. Curious, passionate life-long learners make the most dynamic teachers. Thinking deeply about the world - and one’s place in it - should start at an early age and continue throughout one's lifetime.

WE HAVE SEEN

How one single encounter between teacher and student can change the entire world. How individualized plans of study can open doors to employment and new career paths. How increasing our awareness of and exposure to the natural world helps us to feel grounded, confident, and connected. How cultivating curiosity and developing adventurous research methods can lead to impassioned mentoring of others. How groups can work together to achieve learning objectives and create social change. 

We have… created curricula of advanced study for college graduates, helped artists sketch designs for an institute of creative learning, encouraged individuals to turn their entire lives into a work of art, devised methods for integrating the arts more dynamically into the humanities, supporting writing projects and those who incorporate writing into their teaching, and brainstormed many more experiments aimed at helping each individual learn in his, her, or their own way. Our online self-paced courses - Grief Mapping, Race & Philosophy, and Write Brightly - have been taken by a diverse mix of learners, teachers, grievers, and healers. We can’t wait to work with you!

Learning and Teaching Support Offerings:

• Project Visioning & Support (see below)

• What’s Possible (a NEW workshop coming in 2025)

• Build Your Class: Teaching Workshop (2025 dates TBD)

• Revivify Your Syllabi

• Race & Philosophy (self-paced course)

• Write Brightly (self-paced course)

Mentorship Package

Project Visioning & Support

If you are developing a project that requires both Big Picture Thinking and Creative Support for Organizing Logistics, we can help to weave together ideas, offer resources, and review your writing materials (business plans, grant proposals, web copy, etc.).

With this package you receive:

• An Initial Planning Conversation, during which you tell us about the project’s origin, objectives, current state of development, etc. as well as any challenges that you have faced or that you anticipate tackling in the future;

• A Big-Picture Assessment of your Project, in which we identify possible resources, review any available written text, pose additional questions related to the content and/or structure of the project, and propose clear objectives & a timeline for our work together;

• Four Individual Sessions (60-75 minutes each) during which we tackle pieces of the project as related to our agreed-upon objectives.
  This may include:

  • writing coaching/support,

  • conducting research,

  • identifying possible funding sources or marketing ideas,

  • generating content,

  • devising ways to link the textual, visual, and/or embodied dimensions of the project,

  • share our publishing experience if you are looking to publish your work (with a press, through self-publishing, etc.)

  • providing ideas for archiving your research and materials,

• A List of Suggested Next Steps, including additional resources and questions, for you to continue developing your project.

• Email Support throughout the agreed-upon timeline

Mentorship Investment: $400