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1-Day Session on Buddhist Metaphysics
January 2025
Duration: 3 hrs
Audience: Open Community Session
Location: Rockford, IL
I presented a session covering the basics of Buddhist metaphysics and ontology as part of the Forest City Philosophy Club, one of my ongoing projects. Topics covered include: the post-Vedic context of Buddhism's birth; the four Noble Truths; the five Aggregates and their post-phenomenological importance; the six Sense-Bases; the temporal flow of karma; samsara and nirvana; and more.
Role: Supporting Fellow
Frequency: 2-3 sessions per month
Audience: Community Builders, Organizers, and Leaders
Organization: Cleveland VOTES (Cleveland, OH), supported by Liberation in a Generation
As one of the organizers of the first ever Democracy Collective (DemCo) cohort, I helped develop the program which would go on to incubate influential community leaders in Cleveland. Kirby Broadnax was the primary facilitator.
DemCo was an exercise in developing an educational system for organizers and changemakers that could cultivate their talents in the same way that trade schools or universities cultivate other professions. It was a multidisciplinary approach to education.
The Democracy Collective
August 2023 - May 2024
2-Week Course on Deleuzean and Stoic Metaphysics
January 2024
Duration: 2 weeks, 3 hrs/day
Audience: High School Students
Location: Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) (Aurora, IL)
I gave this course as an alumni presenter at IMSA's 2024 intersession, which gives students the opportunity to take one- or two-week courses on topics of interest taught by alumni, community members, and more.
My goal was to get the students to understand, to some comfort, the first four chapters of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, and hopefully gain an appreciation for the depth of philosophy along the way. Presenting graduate-level philosophy in a way that high schoolers could understand, none of whom which had taken a class in philosophy, was an exciting challenge. Although dense, and at points difficult to navigate, the students generally came to me with very positive feedback, and demonstrated an exceptional ability to grasp abstract concepts.