Understand Solitude and belonging — the necessary tension More Clearly

Solitude and belonging are not opposites but partners — each making the other possible and more meaningful. The person who cannot be alone brings a kind of desperation to community that community cannot satisfy; the person who cannot be in community eventually loses the ability to hear themselves in relation to anyone else. The examined life requires literacy in both.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.