Programs For Youth & Families
We design programs for all ages, tailoring content to your needs, and always working to ensure the experience aligns with desired outcomes. Contact us today to start creating your program!
“I found the content to be interesting and engaging for both children and adults!”
— Robert, Great Big Ideas Parent
Since 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to run a wide variety of fun, exploratory and hands-on programs for youth and families. Here are a few examples!
Great Big Ideas
We offered our Great Big Ideas program as an offering through the Brattleboro Recreation & Parks Department. Families with children ranging in age from 5 to 11 y.o. joined Everywhere Philosophy for games, puppets, art, music and experiments to stimulate wonder about some of life’s Great Big Ideas: Happiness, friendship, beauty and nature.
Outdoor Philosophy and Orienteering
Everywhere Philosophy hosted two week-long orienteering summer camps through the Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro and the Recreation and Parks Department. One way to view the activity of philosophizing is as a process of orienting ourselves to the world and each other, by way of evaluating our most basic assumptions and biases. We found orienteering to provide a surprising pathway to philosophical exploration over topics as diverse as leadership, reality, and the relationship between the mind and the world. Campers learned, literally, how to navigate around the natural environment, while at once team-building with peers and reinforcing their understanding of their leadership potential. Land navigation exercises were supported with philosophy games, thought experiments and discussions that kept campers simultaneously navigating through the wilderness of concepts, assumptions and beliefs that guide our thinking and behavior every day.
Philosophy Lab
Concepts, claims, logic, thought experiments, games, and great debates. Join Everywhere Philosophy as we playfully grapple with some big questions: Truth, Knowledge, Reality, Justice, Happiness, Identity, Mind, Love, Autonomy, Freedom, Beauty & Existence.
Read & Imagine with Everywhere Philosophy
Philosophy is everywhere - including in beloved fairy tales and children’s stories for the young and young at heart. In another collaboration with Brattleboro Recreation and Parks, families with children of a variety of ages joined Everywhere Philosophy for live readings, virtual and in-person, that wove storytelling, philosophy and hands-on activities together into an immersive philosophical experience.