Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern invites you to explore our emerging work in the world, and stay tuned for what’s next in 2023. Dear Academy Friends, As we begin this new year, I find myself turning once again to the wisdom of Joanna Macy, the remarkable deep ecologist, environmental activist, and Buddhist scholar. More…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern invites you to read our new publication The Poetry of Learning, a research framework created in partnership with the Center for Healthy Minds, exploring the connection between transformational learning and wellbeing. Dear Friends, It is my great joy to share with you The Poetry of Learning, a research framework…
Join Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for a transformational conversation on healing intergenerational trauma in Mind & Life’s Inspiring Minds, an online conversation series. Dear Friends, In two weeks, I’ll have the opportunity to join my dear friend Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela in an Inspiring Minds video podcast. The Mind & Life Institute has organized…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern invites you to learn more about our emerging work in the world and join us in learning! Dear Friends, As I write this annual update, it seems impossible that yet another whole year has gone by. At times it feels as if we are treading water – yet of…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern thanks you for sharing your 2020 reflections with us. We’ve gathered your reflections and insights to create a collection of learnings for 2021. Dear Friends, At the Academy for the Love of Learning, we ended 2020 by reflecting on the year and considering what we could learn from our…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern invites you to reflect, make meaning, and imagine possibilities for the future with us. Dear Friends, As 2020 comes to a close, having brought us… all that it has brought…we see in the prospect of 2021 possible glimpses of hope and light – a bit distant and uncertain still…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern shares an Annual Letter with updates on Academy events and projects for 2020. Dear Friends, As 2019 comes to a close here at the Academy for the Love of Learning I’m writing with news of our work this year and a look toward 2020. You may recall that in…
Aaron Stern shared a letter with attendees of Bearing Witness: The Academy’s Annual Leonard Bernstein Celebration on Sunday, August 25th. We experienced a thought-provoking concert and enjoyed sharing music, reflection, and contemplation with old and new friends in a communal setting. Experience music, images, and footage from the concert here.
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern shares a year end message with emergent Academy news for 2019. Dear Friends, As the year comes to a close, I am writing, as is my annual tradition, to share news of the past year at the Academy and to invite you to join with us in imagining and…
Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and President Aaron Stern shared this letter with participants after our 20th anniversary and Leonard Bernstein centennial birthday celebration on August 25th, Lenny’s Living Legacy: A Concert Celebration. Throughout 2018, the Academy for the Love of Learning has been celebrating our 20th year through the themes of “Reflection and…
