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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote about collective effervescence and why it's so important for learning and flourishing:

isabelagranic.substack.com/p/dancing-du...

Dancing, Durkheim, and the Alchemy of Collective Change

Thinking about Collective Effervescence

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 25

More details on [the program here](liminal-learning.com/program). Liminal Learning is a nonprofit, aiming to provide 30% of its places on scholarship over its lifetime.

Liminal Learning

Liminal Learning offers a comprehensive “world-readiness” program that prepares young people (ages ~18–24 years) to thrive. Young people need strong friendships, a sense of agency, and trusted mentors...

liminal-learning.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 25

The yearlong program helps young people find their way in work, study, and life. We start with a weeklong retreat in the wilderness (Quest), and continues with online and offline programming. Check out some of the testimonials from our last cohort: liminallearning.substack.com

The Liminal Post | Liminal Learning | Substack

News and community updates from Liminal Learning — a collective launch into purposeful adulthood. Click to read The Liminal Post, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

liminallearning.substack.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 25

We've got 5 scholarship places open for Liminal Learning's next cohort, starting October 19: liminal-learning.com/upcoming-que...!

Liminal Learning — Quests

A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.

liminal-learning.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 24

I wrote about the power of love to liberate... and how education can do the same.

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Love (and Education) Liberates

It's been a harrowing week of working around the clock with some of the most devoted, talented people I know, pulling off massive milestones for a collective dream called Liminal Learning. We submitte...

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 1

I've started a newsletter. If you're interested in ideas about how to support the next generation of young adults, parenting adult youth, and how to make this world a much better place by loving SO big and bravely and being ALL IN, please subscribe: isabelagranic.substack.com?r=1mri0p&utm...

Isabela Granic | Substack

Recovering academic/developmental psychology professor, co-founder of Liminal Learning (a communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood). I love poetry, complexity science, creativity in collectives, ...

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oh how WONDERFUL. I'm so grateful! Can't wait to dive in tonight... many thanks!

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 29

"... that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.” - Joanna Macy

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 29

“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up...

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 29

I wish I knew where to go on this platform to talk more about this wonder of a woman, Joanna Macy. I miss her so, already.

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Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · Jun 25

In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...

Neither/Nor Paper Discussion 🎧

With Isabela Granic

www.bryankam.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 7

Join us for a live Q&A on Wednesday, July 16th at 6pm EST to learn about upcoming Quests and the Liminal Learning program. There's SO MUCH going on in young people's lives; we're helping them navigate the transition to adulthood collectively, with joy & curiosity.
Registration: liminal-learning.com

Liminal Learning — Home

A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.

liminal-learning.com

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm thrilled to share this story in the Kingstonist. They did SUCH a beautiful piece on Liminal Learning. The SWEETEST part is hearing our Pioneers (the first cohort of youth who joined us on the Quest last year) react to the piece with such pride and glee.

www.kingstonist.com/news/liminal...

Liminal Learning aims to help young people 'thrive in a world of flux' – Kingston News

(Kingston, Ontario) A new venture, based partly in Kingston, is aiming to support young adults in their journey toward independence, or “purposeful adulthood."

www.kingstonist.com

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 14

Learn more about how our Quests -- weeklong immersions in the wilderness with like-hearted peers and mentors -- become the foundations of the rest of our Liminal Learning curriculum.

liminallearning.substack.com/p/why-start-...

Why start with a Quest?

Why we think Quests matter, plus a sneak peek of our Quest location at Elbow Lake

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 12

Excellent 1-min summary of data on the loneliness epidemic. Similar trend in N. American, Europe, the UK, the Nordic countries, & Australia.

This is one of our biggest motivators at Liminal Learning: we set the conditions for young people to make lifelong friends.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w3...

The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With

YouTube video by The Pudding

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 12

Important report/call to action by Next In Mind focused on emerging adults' (18-29 years old) urgent need for support, care, and community. They're facing astronomical mental health problems. Yet we know at Liminal Learning that they're also at the cusp of so much opportunity.

www.nextinmind.org

Next in Mind

www.nextinmind.org

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · Jun 9

Visionary, timely, effective, AND based on well-known developmental principles!
Youth need something else beside multiple choice and status quo if they are going to thrive and work collectively on solutions we/they desparately need over the next generation.
Highly recommend. 5 stars

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 9

HELLO! Here's what I've been up to for the last 2 years! If you're 18-24 years old, come join us for a Quest!

Liminal Learning is preparing young people to thrive in a world in flux, together. We are focused on collective flourishing and it shows 🥰. Come see what's on offer: liminal-learning.com

Liminal Learning — Home

A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.

liminal-learning.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 9

HELLO! Here's what I've been up to for the last 2 years! If you're 18-24 years old, come join us for a Quest!

Liminal Learning is preparing young people to thrive in a world in flux, together. We are focused on collective flourishing and it shows 🥰. Come see what's on offer: liminal-learning.com

Liminal Learning — Home

A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.

liminal-learning.com

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thrilled to share how Liminal Learning is helping young people launch into adulthood. Here, I explain the rationale of our hybrid (offline/online) learning model. www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nS...

If you're interested in joining us on a Quest, get in touch here: liminal-learning.com/upcoming-que...

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Dec 24

Getting my Covid shot and reminded of this poem:
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(Translated from German by Robert Bly)

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Sep 28

Losing memory for source (e.g., names, dates, book titles, titles of movies/books, etc). Not the content, but sources.

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm excited (and a tad nervous) to share w/ you a special conversation I had w/ Guy Sengstock, founder of the Circling Institute. His curiosity & care kindled personal stories from me that I rarely share, but reveal core motivations for my next big project. Thoughts?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys5r...

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 16

No other app has given me such a quality of life boost and a genuine sense of kid-like “oh wow…” than Readwise Reader. They just shipped a bunch of new features but their core experience remains what I come back to daily, with pleasure.

https://readwise.io/reader/update-august2023

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Aug 13

You’re a BABY. live another 10 and tell me you don’t change your mind…

Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is a phenomenal series, and a unique piece of emergent, collective art. A bit podcast-y, a lot like old-school letters, a bit of the PostSecret feel to it also. And you can also be a part of it yourself, just send in a little voice note answering this timeless question:

Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · Jul 19

How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life?

Here's the fifth set of responses I received to that question: https://pod.fo/e/18db48

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