The Learning Project

Do our plans to improve or succeed require a change in the quantity of what we do, or the quality of who we are? Does success require special intentions or particular opportunities? The Learning Project is a search for an answer.

In The Learning Project people of all ages and circumstances explore their struggle and inspiration. Artists, athletes, tradesmen, soldiers, scientists, and politicians describe their passages of inner change. What does a future Nobel Laureate have in common with a High School truant, a soldier, or a homeless woman on the streets of New York?

One struggles with adolescence as in immigrant, another trains to be an astronaut, and a third learns craftsmanship from a grandfather who lived during the Civil War. These rites of passage echo a mythology going back thousands of years. In them are the secrets to growing our humanity.

This is not the sanitized version, reduced to self-help or buzzwords for business schools. These are neither pigeonholed people nor bedtime stories that meet a teacher's approval. These are full textured, authentic rites of passage, unfiltered and unfolded by layers. Lives like ours: twisted, complex, uncertain, and in the process of being born. This is the story of our transformation and transcendence.