Special Events
Let’s Learn! is a global learning and teaching community
with ties to innovative educational, cultural,
and community-empowering organizations all over the world.
Here are some events and activities
that might be of interest to our global network of learners, teachers and seekers.
6-Week Study Group
Sept 8 - Oct 13 | 3:30 - 4:45pm (Fee: $100 | $75 | $45 | Sliding Scale) Click here to convert to your time zone
Join Melissa Meyer and Desire Wandan for a dive into Lois Holzman’s The Overweight Brain. Through selected chapters and group dialogue, participants will explore how the belief that knowing is required for growth can limit creativity, risk-taking, and our capacity to create something new. Together, the group will explore “non-knowing growing” and learn about key influences, including developmental psychologist, Lev Vygotsky and philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. No prior familiarity is needed.
A 4-Week Group
Mondays, Oct 5, 12, 19, 26 | 6 - 7:30pm ($175 | $125 | $60 | Sliding Scale) Click here to convert to your time zone
Helen Abel (USA) and Nicola Pauling (NZ) invite you to play with the experience of aging, to explore and reshape how we relate to being older and being seen as older. Together, we’ll discover creative ways to respond to physical changes and illness, to give and receive care, and to honour our right to lifelong development.
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A 5-Week Guide to Building Life Teams
Sundays, Oct 25 - Nov 22 | 10:30am - 12pm (Fee: $150 | $85 | $45 | Sliding Scale) Click here to convert to your time zone
Building a meaningful life is something we can do together. In this five-week Developing Across Borders workshop, social therapeutic coaches Lea Csikós and Elyse Mendel invite you to explore where you feel stuck, experiment with new ways of responding, and strengthen the relationships that support you. Through conversation, improvisation, readings, and group-building, you’ll discover how to live more socially—and build your life with others.
A 5-Week Developmental Learning Lab
Sundays, Oct 25 - Nov 22 | 12 - 1:30pm (Fee: $195 | $145 | $75) Click here to convert to your time zone
Mark Twain, Pablo Neruda, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nazim Hikmet, Lev Vygotsky, Bayo Akomolafe, Mahatma Gandhi and many others have given us words that can stop us, move us, make us think and feel—and suddenly help us see differently. Join Lois Holzman as together we open our ears and hearts, roll up our sleeves, and play with their provocations drawn from her Words to Ponder archive. Together we will spark our imagination and widen our gaze, question assumptions and make new, unexpected connections.
The Radical Therapist: The Stories We Live By
In this episode of All Power to the Developing, Desire Wandan talks with Dr. Chris Hoff—narrative therapist, educator, author, and host of The Radical Therapist podcast. Chris shares his journey to narrative therapy and explores identity, relationships, radical helping, imagination, and the stories we tell about ourselves. What becomes possible when we challenge inherited stories and create new ones together?
Performing the World Community Presents... workshops, panels, conversations, storytelling circles and performances inspired by the performative spirit of Performing the World and its playful approach to transforming the world.
International Storytelling Circle
Thurs, Sept 17 | 10am
with Gwen Johnson and Dan Friedman
For information and to register contact Dan Friedman at danfriedmannyc@gmail.com
Beyond the Numbers: Making Data a Tool for Collective Creativity and Social Change
Sun, Sep 27 | 11am - 12:30pm
with Veronica S. Smith
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Create Community with Our Concerns About Our Planet
Sat, Oct 24 | 12 - 1:00pm
with Gwen Lowenheim and Jim Martinez
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6-Week Study Group
Sept 8 - Oct 13 | 3:30 - 4:45pm (Fee: $100 | $75 | $45 | Sliding Scale) Click here to convert to your time zone
Join Melissa Meyer and Desire Wandan for a dive into Lois Holzman’s The Overweight Brain. Through selected chapters and group dialogue, participants will explore how the belief that knowing is required for growth can limit creativity, risk-taking, and our capacity to create something new. Together, the group will explore “non-knowing growing” and learn about key influences, including developmental psychologist, Lev Vygotsky and philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. No prior familiarity is pneeded.
Let’s Learn! The World as Classroom, an ESI alliance with Lloyd International Honors College, UNC-Greensboro. For a view of the entire fall schedule and FREE registration, click here.
For Profit Higher Ed: The Promise and the Trap.
Sat, Sept 5 | 2 - 3:30pm
Leah Barlow, Ph.D.
Poetry in a Time of Trouble and Crisis
Sat, Sept 19 | 2 – 3:30pm
Caroline Donnola
Indoor Gardening
Sat, Sept 26 | 2 – 3:30pm
Emilie Knoerzer
International Short Story Reading Club Sundays, Sept 27, Oct 4, 11 | 2 – 4:00pm
Sowjana Siva