Cafe Shakespeare, our newest initiative
CAFE FOR SHAKESPEAREWhy?Well, for one thing, William Shakespeare posed some of the most piercing, unsettling, exhilarating, vexing questions ever. He slipped them into the mouths of his characters and the narrators of his sonnets. If alive today, they are questions the Bard of Avon may well explore in a cafe (or cafe-type ambience, or in […]
How the ‘Socrates Cafe Method’ differs from Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue
Some have been asking for more scholarly-ish articles and essays from yours truly posted here, so here’s one I recently put together: Philosophizing with Children and Youth – Juxtaposing the Socrates Café & Philosophers’ Club Approach with Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue By Christopher Phillips, PhD Leonard Nelson, who wrote widely and deeply on such subjects as […]
When to hold on, and when to let go? A stirring essay by the winner of our Third Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award contest
by Michael Dea, submitted for the Third Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award No five-year-old child should have to learn the meaning of the word “cancer.” In a perfect world, every child would be blissfully unaware of death and how the body can be ripped apart and stitched back together in an attempt to keep a […]
Having facilitation challenges? Who you gonna call? One of us!
At our latest Socrates Cafe Facilitators Forum, the wonderful suggestion arose that if you who organize, facilitate or take part in one of our gatherings around the world and are experiencing problems/challenges facilitating — e.g., utilizing the Socrates Cafe method of inquiry in a maximally beneficial way, dealing with ‘difficult’ participants or with disconcerting questions, […]
Luminary public intellectual Dr. Cornel West pens foreword for Christopher Phillips’ newest book
” Christopher Phillips is the greatest living embodiment of the Socratic spirit in our catastrophic times.” So says Democracy Cafe advisory board member, the beloved, luminary public intellectual and nonpareil scholar and activist Dr. Cornel West in the opening sentence of a stirring 12-page handwritten foreword he wrote to support Christopher and his newest book. […]
Global Socrates Cafes on Jackson Browne’s Birthday, 10/9, & Indigenous People’s Day 10/12
Come one come all to what are sure to be most meaningful global Socrates Cafe gatherings — the first, on October 9, is on the birthday of two of the greatest artist-musician-philosophers of all time, Jackson Browne and John Lennon, and the second, on Indigenous Peoples Day. The images have all the info! Look forward […]
Feature on 8th annual Conversation with the Constitution
Lovely feature article about our 8th annual Conversation with the Constitution in the marvelous San Antonio Report! And it makes really nice mention at the end of our upcoming Constitution Cafe this Monday on ‘The DNA of Citizenship’ https://sanantonioreport.org/conversation-with-the-constitution-examines-the-first-amendments-right-to-assemble/
Constitution Week Events! Conversation with the Constitution, and a Constitution Cafe on ‘The DNA of Citizenship’
Come one come all. We have some great events upcoming. Besides our annual (8th annual!) Constitution Day event — Conversation with the Constitution — this year we’ll also hold during Constitution Week, on September 21st, a Constitution Cafe on ‘The DNA of Citizenship.” Christopher Phillips and Karl Hebenstreit, Jr. are co-hosting this event, which gets […]
Socrates Cafe global, 28 de Agosto, que nos acompanen. Come one come all.
29 Julio, Socrates Cafe: Que es el papel de la cultura en tiempos de pandemia? What’s the role of culture in times of pandemia?
Acompanenos! Join us! Here’s all the info: