Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern spoke with A Matter of the Mind’s Mark Perry about the Academy’s evolution journey, and how we used our own pedagogy and practices to reimagine our vision and work in the world. Listen to the full interview on KSFR’s website here.
After three years of deep reflection, the Academy has emerged with a new vision, visual identity, and expression of our work in the world. Learn more in our community update. In 2020, the Academy paused to reexamine how we express our mission and vision, and we asked ourselves: Are we creating the change we wish…
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…
Last week, Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern joined Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Hawah Kasat for Mind & Life’s Inspiring Minds conversation on Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Together, they shared reflections, learnings, and stories focused on two learning questions: How do we create safe spaces where intergenerational healing can take place, rooted in an understanding of our…
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…
Welcome to our new Inquiry Project Series! Through the months of February and June, we’ll share the story of our Learning Exchange with the Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Together we’re learning what becomes possible when young people explore what they want to learn and design their own learning. Join our…
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…
