This half-day course explores the mystery of self and the search for meaning. Drawing on both Western and Eastern perspectives—including Descartes, Buddhism, and existential thinkers—participants reflect on questions of identity, purpose, and life’s unfolding narrative. Through visualization, journaling, and values mapping, the session offers space to consider how personal experiences shape our understanding of who we are and what truly matters.

Suggested Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

In a world of shifting beliefs and rising scientific discovery, Descartes sought clarity by beginning with doubt. What can we really know — and where can we ground our thinking when tradition no longer assures us? In this session, we’ll trace Descartes’ journey toward certainty, from radical doubt to the famous “I think, therefore I am.” We’ll also ask whether this modern turn to the self has liberated us, or left us more alone.

Suggested Reading: Discourse on the Method (Parts I–IV) by René Descartes

Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness meditation offers a gentle way to develop greater empathy and self-awareness, helping us respond more wisely to life’s challenges.

Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber

Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness meditation offers a gentle way to develop greater empathy and self-awareness, helping us respond more wisely to life’s challenges.

Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber

This half-day course explores the mystery of self and the search for meaning. Drawing on both Western and Eastern perspectives—including Descartes, Buddhism, and existential thinkers—participants reflect on questions of identity, purpose, and life’s unfolding narrative. Through visualization, journaling, and values mapping, the session offers space to consider how personal experiences shape our understanding of who we are and what truly matters.

Suggested Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

This half-day course explores the mystery of self and the search for meaning. Drawing on both Western and Eastern perspectives—including Descartes, Buddhism, and existential thinkers—participants reflect on questions of identity, purpose, and life’s unfolding narrative. Through visualization, journaling, and values mapping, the session offers space to consider how personal experiences shape our understanding of who we are and what truly matters.

Suggested Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness meditation offers a gentle way to develop greater empathy and self-awareness, helping us respond more wisely to life’s challenges.

Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber

Change is one of life’s few certainties—yet it can be difficult to navigate. This reflective half-day course explores how philosophers and wisdom traditions have understood impermanence, transition, and the passage of time. Drawing on insights from thinkers like Heraclitus, the Buddha, and Heidegger, participants consider how to live more peacefully with change and cultivate a sense of continuity amid life’s shifts. Through writing, discussion, and contemplative practice, we explore letting go not as loss, but as growth.

Suggested Reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Change is one of life’s few certainties—yet it can be difficult to navigate. This reflective half-day course explores how philosophers and wisdom traditions have understood impermanence, transition, and the passage of time. Drawing on insights from thinkers like Heraclitus, the Buddha, and Heidegger, participants consider how to live more peacefully with change and cultivate a sense of continuity amid life’s shifts. Through writing, discussion, and contemplative practice, we explore letting go not as loss, but as growth.

Suggested Reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness meditation offers a gentle way to develop greater empathy and self-awareness, helping us respond more wisely to life’s challenges.

Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber

Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness meditation offers a gentle way to develop greater empathy and self-awareness, helping us respond more wisely to life’s challenges.

Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber

What does it mean to live a good life? In this half-day course, we explore key ethical traditions—such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics—and apply them to real-life dilemmas. Participants engage in a reflective exercise on personal integrity and write a personal ethics statement. Through case discussions and critical thinking, this session invites deeper understanding of our moral values and how they inform our choices, character, and relationships.

Suggested Reading: Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

Baruch Spinoza offered a bold and radical vision of reality: a single divine substance unfolding through natural laws — not above the world, but as the world. In this session, we’ll explore Spinoza’s pantheism, his view of emotions as forms of knowledge, and his call to live wisely through understanding. Is true freedom found not in willpower, but in aligning ourselves with necessity? And can reason itself lead to spiritual liberation?

Suggested Reading: Ethics – Part I (on God) and Part V (on freedom & joy) by Baruch Spinoza

What does it mean to live a good life? In this half-day course, we explore key ethical traditions—such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics—and apply them to real-life dilemmas. Participants engage in a reflective exercise on personal integrity and write a personal ethics statement. Through case discussions and critical thinking, this session invites deeper understanding of our moral values and how they inform our choices, character, and relationships.

Suggested Reading: Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel