Ben Franklin Circle: About Virtues and Community
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Let's get together to talk about the practice of virtue as a way to improve ourselves and our community. We're proud to bring a model as old as the country itself to Austin. Come be a part of our local Ben Franklin Circle at Austin's Central Library.
Franklin started this model in 1727 when he formed his first "Junto", a weekly mutual-improvement club made up of individuals with an array of interests and skills. Founding father, master inventor: Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneer of self-improvement. Now, almost 300 years later, the Ben Franklin Circles are revisiting and redefining these virtues – as tools to enrich our own lives and our communities.
Austin's Ben Franklin Circle will meet once a month, focusing on one of Ben Franklin's 13 virtues each meeting. The facilitated conversation will provide time for reflection on each individual's understanding of that virtue and how it applies to them. The conversation will then continue to address how we could use the virtue to make a positive change in our community. Learn more about the effort to make conversations like these available nationwide: https://benfranklincircles.org
• What to bring
You may want to bring pen and paper, whatever your preferred device is for catching your own thoughts and learning from others.
• Important to know
We hope you will plan to join us each month to learn more about the rest of Franklin's virtues for mutual improvement. We will meet on Tuesday during the second full week of each month. We offer this opportunity in partnership with Austin Public Library and will meet in one of their Shared Learning Rooms. For this meeting ONLY, we will meet in Shared Learning Room 615 (6th floor, east side of the building). Beginning in April we will have a s standing reservation for Room 621 that sits right along the atrium.
Today's effort to host Ben Franklin Circles across the country is produced and supported by 92Y in collaboration with Citizen University and Hoover Institution.