Cultivate Your Mind and Have Fun While Doing It: Summer Seminars for High School and College Students

Highly recommended to anyone who wishes to achieve a higher level of understanding on any subject area. The Great Connections Seminar prepares you to be both critical and self reflective, allowing you to make questions that are outside the box. The program allows you to gain self confidence through open discussions where wrong answers don't exist. Facilitators make you feel very welcome, they are always accessible and very open to any kind of conversations, making sure that you'll get something out of it. You'll feel like if one week is not enough.
You also get to meet like minded people from all around the world where you get the chance to get to know different cultures and share ideas. It is a great opportunity to grow, learn, and network.
Highly recommended to everyone.

I have attended a considerable number of seminars so far. However, the Great Connections Seminar, tops the list in terms of so many factors. The modules and the methods of the seminar takes one to the depth of the issues, without any pressure being felt. The study of the "study method" in addition to the contents of the seminar, helps in building an important tool for self-improvement. The seminar will help in sharpening one's thinking and reasoning capacity. I am sure you will feel the transformation within a week. The seminar is indeed a life-changing experience.
I am very thankful to the seminar for a wide range of things from providing philosophical insights, architectural understanding to introducing me to some amazing people from different places.

I highly recommend it. There´s no better place to have great conversations about philosophy, arts, math, and many other interesting subjects.

During the seminar, I had a lot of fun, got to discover the city of Chicago and practice another language (in my case). I also met incredible people from all around the world that shared other cultures and with whom I still keep in touch, all of this while learning.
Imagine how great!

I learned how to discuss texts and listen to other opinions, with an opened mind and that is something that has benefited in my life, I´m very thankful for that.
Another thing that I enjoyed a lot was the improv comedy workshop because it made me less shy and helped me to think out of the box.

This seminar is one of the best experiences I´ve had.
I would take it many more times.

I attended these seminars 3 times now, and each time leaves me wanting for more! It is just a pleasure to meet like-minded people, fascinated about philosophy, politics and have a taste for refined ideas.

These seminars have had a key role in my education, mainly the first one I went when I was still in school. It was the first encounter with the college life and left me such a positive memory that profoundly marked one of my greatest passions that still accompanies me to this very day: love of philosophy.

I honestly recommend this seminar to all those who are by nature curious, passionate about thought, who wish to go out into the world as a critical thinker and, overall, being able to think in groups.

Can never thank you enough!
Ian

A fun, fascinating, life-changing program! I recommend The Great Connections Seminar to anyone who is interested in self-development, philosophy, and discovering the tools to navigate life's big questions. In one week, I learned so much about myself and the world. I developed nearly-instant bonds with the other students, as well as the wonderful, caring people who organize and facilitate this program.

You'll gain genuine confidence in yourself as a thinker as you learn how to use the principles of reason. This is an educational program, but it’s education like you have never experienced in a classroom before. You'll make lasting connections with incredible people and walk away with a newfound sense of life’s possibilities, and an appreciation for the merits of philosophical reasoning in everyday life.