*Uses the powerful Franklin Circle adult learning model. (see below)
*True companions on a common journey.
*Teach to Learn - Learn to Win!

*Learn more, faster, and have fun.
*Meet interesting new people.
*Make friends with life-long learners.

*Do more Good Work to achieve True Sucess. (1)
*Become a better citizen and neighbor.

See format for the meeting under "Files" to the left.

Join us here each Friday, or start a similar group at a time and place better for you and your friends. You'll get enough information at this meeting to start your own, and I'll help you start your group if you want help. If you become a tuition paid member here, John Wren will be your part-time Assistant-to and help you start your own free or tuition paid group. Questions? Contact John Wren at John@JohnWren.com or (303)861-1447

Life's too short to learn from just our own experience!

Today as never before, we all need to be life-long learners.

"He who knows most knows best how little he knows." Thomas Jefferson

These are free, open meetings. You learn from each meeting, and get help if you want it to start a similar group at another time and place that would work better for you.

In 1727 Ben Franklin started the first Franklin Circle, what that first group called the Junto. It may have been Ben's best invention!

The groups are based on the most fundamental principle of adult education: Adults learn best by teaching others. There are two parts to each meeting. In the first part, members take turns to present on a topic or read a paper. In the second part of each meeting, members share around the table using a structured format.

The sharing around the table uses a set of standard questions based on those originally written by Franklin, what some say was his best invention. Members can ask for discussion or brainstorming of a problem or opportunity they currently face. Or time can be used to share what has been recently learned that might be of interest to the group.

Meetings are always lively, informative, and entertaining. But the big value to members is the learning that is stimulated between meetings. Awareness is raised by the meetings and also through a private meeting with the facilitator each month to set learning goals, to address any problems, and to encourage efforts to reach out to others through teaching, publishing, speaking, and organizing and/or facilitating other groups.

Do you sincerely want True Success*? Are you willing to share your experience with peers? Then join us for our next meeting!

RSVP "no" if you can't make it, and you'll be sent a reminder next week.

*(1) True Success: 1) Discover your positive talents; 2) Develop the most meaningful and beneficial of those talents; 3) Deploy your talents into the world for the good of others as well as yourself. From: Tom Morris, Philosophy for Dummies (Morris's Philosophy 101 at Notre Dame). Also see www.MorrisInstitute.com

*(2) Good Work: 1) Provides necessary and useful goods and services; 2) to enable every one of us to use and thereby perfect our gifts as good stewards; and 3) to do so in service to, and in cooperation with, others, so as to liberate ourselves from our inborn egocentricity. EF Schumacher, Good Work (Harper & Row, 1979)