Theodore Richards is an educator,
writer, and philosopher, and the founder
of The Chicago Wisdom Project.
His work is dedicated to re-imagining
education and creating new narratives
about our place in the world.
ANNOUNCING
OVERVIEW
It’s the end of the world—if we understand that a “world” is something we put together through the stories and symbols of a culture. When a worldview or a cosmology unravels, when myths no longer give one a sense of place and meaning in the cosmos, we experience this as the end of the world—the apocalypse. But apocalypse means “unveiling.” While it often leads to destruction and fear—the clinging to an imagined past of fascism—it can also be a collective re-birth, the emergence of a new story, new sets of symbols, that give one a sense of place in the cosmos, that give our world meaning.
Reimagine:
Self & World(view) is…
An invitation to explore our worldview—the narratives and symbols that give us our sense of who we are and our place in the world—that has led us to the brink of apocalypse.
An inquiry into how we got here—to the great unraveling of late capitalism and global polycrisis—and an exploration of the possibilities for reimagining our worldview, and the values and systems that arise out of it.
An opportunity to reimagine ourselves and our world and an invitation to integrate and embody a new story.
DETAILS
We meet on Monday evenings from 8:00pm-9:00pm EST from July 14 – August 25
$100 (sliding scale)
Contact us (or email [email protected]) to register.
GREAT READS
Theodore Richards’ latest book, Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World is now available
We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about teaching and learning while reimagining educational spaces rooted in the notion that classrooms – and the stories we tell in them – are a metaphor for the world we hope to create.
