And the inaugural winner of the Alexander Phillips Arete Award is….
And the winning entry for the inaugural Alexander Phillips Arete Award, in honor of my father, Alexander Phillips, whose life was tragically truncated on or around September 17, 2011 is (drum roll, please): the International Baccalaureate class of 2018 at Vanguard...
Socrates Cafe is celebrated in Saihat, Saudi Arabia
I was delighted to hear that the ongoing Socrates Cafe in Saihat, Saudi Arabia is celebrating its one-year anniversary, and humbled to be asked to do a short video in which I applaud and share a few insights about their special...
First Annual ‘Alexander Phillips Arete Award’
Announcing the first annual Alexander Phillips ‘Areté Award’ The first annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award — arete is a Greek term that translates as ‘all around excellence’ — will go to the person or group of people of any age...
Worlds of Difference — the latest in The Philosophers’ Club series
In 2001, my first children’s book, The Philosophers’ Club, featuring actual Socratic inquiries on timely and timeless philosophical posers that I held with children far and wide — but in particular at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in the Mission...
Our new workbook: a journey of self discovery, the Socratic way
Stop (or start) the presses: After burning the midnight oil on and off for months on end, Ceci and Chris have come out with their first workbook on behalf of the nonprofit — A Socratic Journey of Self Discovery: Changing Your Life, One Question at a Time...
Why I started Socrates Cafe
One day in August 1996, I took a deep breath and walked into a Borders Bookstore in a nondescript shopping mall in Wayne, New Jersey, twenty miles southeast of New York City, and introduced myself to the store’s ‘community events coordinator.’ I told her of this idea...
Democracy Cafe, the Podcast
Always love it when I find a new passion that blends and builds on longstanding ones. I have been truly fascinated with people and their stories since I was a wee one, and hopefully Democracy Cafe and Socrates Cafe both are a reflection of that — at their most...Passing along the torch
Not only are our flagship endeavors, Socrates Cafe and Democracy Cafe, a moveable philosophical and democratical (my invention) feast — gathering places and spaces sometimes close, so people have to find a new venue at which to convene (the Socrates Cafe I...Democracy Cafe now in Poland
Very cool that our new initiative, ‘Democracy Cafe, A System Unrigged, is catching on abroad. Here’s an email we just received: Democracy Cafe and Socrates Cafe in Kraków, Poland Hi Chris, a little update from us from Kraków, Poland – we start with 2...Check out the Book:
