Social Learning
What can we learn together that we cannot learn alone?
Social Learning gatherings bring people together to collectively learn about topics related to social health and well-being; things like, how do we improve the quality of our social relationships with partners, friends, and our larger communities? What are some cultural contributors to loneliness and what do we do about it? How can personal reflection and healing help us better connect with others? The Social Learning gatherings take different forms, but all of them include group discussions about the relevance of the topics in our lives. Gatherings include reading books aloud together, listening to podcasts together, expert led mini-lectures, and movie watch parties.
What is Social Learning?
The Social Learning gatherings don’t just explore topics relevant to our social well-being, but they are also structured using what we know about how learning together can help us connect more meaningfully with each other. We know from years of research and experience that we do our best learning when we learn in trusting and caring places and when that learning is social! Learning from others is good, but learning with others is better. Regardless of whether we are sharing a podcast, a book, a film, or connecting with an expert, our social learning gatherings are relational. The culture of these gatherings is characterized by curiosity, exploration, reflection, and compassion. Learning together can feel so good!
How does social learning support social health?
Sample Gatherings
Community Podcast & Process
Communal Reading
Social Learning Classroom
Community Watch Party
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De Felice, S., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Ponari, M., & Vigliocco, G. (2023). Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1870), 20210357.
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Header: Donald Lipski, Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!, 1994. 55 steel marine buoys. 65 x 65 x 3600 inches. Laumeier Sculpture Park Collection, gift of Terri Hyland.