We are learners, and we see our lives and this very universe as a school. For us, our curiosity is sacred, and learning is an act of worship. Learning is endless—there are always more questions, there is always more to be curious about, there is always more to learn.
We aspire to be happy learners, learning and growing and flourishing in our lives, shining brightly in our own singular magnificence. We reflect on what our nature is, what we are curious to learn about, and how we wish to do so, and embark on learning as a journey into a more complex, interesting, fulfilling life for ourselves and the world.
Our learning process begins with noticing, trusting, and following our questions, our curiosities, and our interests. We do not know where they will lead us, but we trust that they will guide us forward through the complexity of our lives and the mysteries of the world.
Divergence: We create learning plans to explore our curiosity: reading books; having conversations; taking online courses; working with teachers, mentors, and coaches; and creating, unique individualized learning experiments or field trips. As we learn, we digest our learning through note-taking, conversation, journaling, and reflection.
Convergence: As we learn, we synthesize what we learn, so that it can be shared with others. We leave the breadcrumbs we wish we’d found when we became interested in a given topic. Ideally, it is easier for others to learn about a topic because we have learned about it. To the extent that our learning leads to novel ideas and new connections between existing ideas, we share those developments with the world. What we learn, the whole world learns.
Throughout this process, we support each other as learning partners—fellow stewards of the flame of curiosity, shepherds of the insights born of following our respective curiosities. We keep track of what we’re learning about individually and collectively, providing accountability and support along the way, and sharing what we find in deep, rich conversation.
Over time, we are able to fold more learners into our process. This gradually takes the shape of a school, a voluntary academy of curious humans consensually electing to continue their learning process, steering by their questions, curiosities, and joy. At this scale, we are able to support more and more learners, with bigger questions and larger learning projects. This will accelerate our collective rate, breadth, and depth of learning, for the benefit of all.
always be asking yourself “what am I burning with curiosity about?”—and be faithful to your curiosity, to your questions, to your awe at the endless mysteries
Team
Kristijan Ivančić
Kristijan is a Croatian living in Glasgow. A machine learning engineer by trade, he spends most of his spare time exploring the intersection between movement and contemplative practices.
Loves watermelons. 🍉
Tasshin Fogleman
Tasshin is an extremely online pilgrim wandering this precious world for the benefit of all beings. 💗
Tasshin follows his curiosity through his blog, podcast, books, art, and other endeavors.
Abi Ly
Abi is on a mission to see how she can help herself & others live fuller lives, using the lenses of collaboration, curiosity, and art-making.
She’s a finance and governance lead at a worker’s co-op, and a member of the community building network Microsolidarity.
Resources
- The Path of Curiosity: Tasshin’s book on Curiosity, asking questions, conversations, and more.
- The Solar System Model of Collective Learning: uses the concept of a solar system to relate multiple individual learners (planets) exploring their shared intention or curiosity (the sun).
- The Value of Recording and Sharing Conversations: on the low effort, high reward practice of recording conversations
- The Art of Writing the Informational Blog Post: how to leave the breadcrumbs U wish U’d found, in writing
- altar to the school of the universe: a poetic, suggestive, psychoactive metaphor about learning