On our Find a Study Circle page you’ll see a list of circles that we’re aware of around the world. Some circles are currently quite active1, and many others are not active, though I think they could be reactivated in some cases. We’ve just overhauled the design and layout of this Study Circles site (as I hope you can see!), and are enlarging it to include more “resources,” not just blog articles, and so we need to reach out to you right now.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been engaging with our volunteers and getting more active on Facebook and Twitter, and the first order of business (at least for me) is to ask around about what we can do for you!
Sitting here at my desk in the media
studio, I’d like to also recognize several contributors, whose articles will appear very soon. Each of them brings an additional perspective to the conversation—or completely new threads in some cases. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, our overall study circles coordinator, from Jos, Nigeria, kicked off the site with an introduction, and I interviewed Emmanuel about how he first connected with the Foundation. And the most recent of our contributors is Ellen Feig, who writes for us about ethics and higher education. Jen Schaeff, in Montréal, will be with us shortly, and Ronnie Wilson is writing about study circles for inmates. And there’s more than that coming up!
Here are some of the top things we think we can do — but you need to tell us your own opinion as well:
- Support “conversations” of all sorts related to ethics, peace, and study circles themselves;
- Help you locate events (including Where’s the Dalai Lama now?) that might be of interest to you or your study circle participants;
- Help you locate people (including the Dalai Lama) involved in ethics and peace—especially online video and sites;
- Provide resources for study circle participants and facilitators—the people “on the ground” starting their own circles (such as downloadable and printed study guides and books);
- Help you connect to people running circles elsewhere and learn from their experience.
Please let us know your ideas about what we can do that would be of the most use (or the most fun, if you prefer).
- Montréal, Canada is a great example ↩
