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Center for Playful Inquiry

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Published 9 months ago • 1 min read

The Studio for Playful Inquiry

Leading for Playful Inquiry

This week, we're on retreat with our first leadership cohort in Cannon Beach, Oregon, thinking and reflecting and planning with the friends we have made through our online program over the year - meeting in person for the first time - sharing food (lots of food) and impressions that can only be shared when you are breathing the same air, feeling the same ocean mist together in the three-dimensional world.

So we're stopping by your inbox to remind you that the rates for next year's cohort go up this week. The retreat will be optional again next year - Zoom meetings will be monthly. All details - including lots of words from current participants - are at the link below. Register by FRIDAY and you'll get your yearlong Studio membership included in your registration fees.

Hope to see you there!

3950 NW St. Helens Rd. , Portland, OR 97210
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Center for Playful Inquiry

Pedagogical partnership inspiring courage, community, change.

Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlsen provide consulting, coaching, and mentorship to educators who are seeking companionship and community in creating and sustaining inquiry-based, aesthetically rich, democratic learning environments and experiences for young children and themselves. Former directors of Opal School in Portland, Oregon. Author: Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers (Heinemann, 2021). Membership is open at the Studio for Playful Inquiry.

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