Critical Thinking – Beginner(16+)
This course introduces the fundamentals of logical reasoning, argument analysis, and the identification of cognitive biases. Using interactive discussions and real-world examples, students learn to deconstruct arguments, assess evidence, and develop clarity in reasoning. The course emphasizes collaborative learning, where students engage in peer-to-peer dialogue and structured exercises that mirror real-world critical thinking challenges.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 2 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
Critical Thinking – Intermediate
Building on the foundational skills of Critical Thinking 1, this advanced course focuses on logical fallacies, rhetorical manipulation, and deeper argument analysis. Students engage in structured debates, case studies, and media analysis, applying critical pedagogy principles to examine how power, language, and persuasion function in different contexts.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 2 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
Philosophical Inquiry I
This course provides a structured space for students to explore fundamental philosophical questions through discussion, guided questioning, and conceptual analysis. Students develop skills in dialogical reasoning, learning to refine their thoughts in relation to others while fostering an appreciation for complexity and ambiguity. Inquiry sessions are student-led, encouraging independent thought within a collaborative structure.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
Philosophical Inquiry (Community of Inquiry)
This course provides a structured space for students to explore fundamental philosophical questions through discussion, guided questioning, and conceptual analysis. Students develop skills in dialogical reasoning, learning to refine their thoughts in relation to others while fostering an appreciation for complexity and ambiguity. Inquiry sessions are student-led, encouraging independent thought within a collaborative structure.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 6 hours a week
Duration: Ongoing
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Ongoing
Philosophy for Children (P4C) – (Community of Inquiry)
Using storytelling, Socratic questioning, and play-based inquiry, this course helps younger learners develop reasoning, curiosity, and expression. Sessions adapt to students’ developmental levels, fostering confidence in expressing ideas while learning to listen and engage thoughtfully with others.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 1 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks sessions followed by 2-3 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (9-11 year old)
Status: Ongoing
Philosophy for Children (P4C) – (Community of Inquiry)
Using storytelling, Socratic questioning, and play-based inquiry, this course helps younger learners develop reasoning, curiosity, and expression. Sessions adapt to students’ developmental levels, fostering confidence in expressing ideas while learning to listen and engage thoughtfully with others.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 1 hour a week
Duration: 14 weeks sessions followed by 2-3 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (12-15 year old)
Status: Ongoing
Socratic Dialogue and Plato
This course introduces students to the methods of Socratic dialogue and the philosophical ideas of Plato. Drawing on the approach outlined in our Socratic Dialogue Course Program, sessions focus on questioning assumptions, clarifying concepts, and collaboratively examining ethical and metaphysical questions. Students practice formulating precise questions and engaging in sustained, respectful dialogue, building both critical thinking and reflective capacities. The course emphasizes learning by doing, allowing participants to experience the dialogical process firsthand.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 2 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
History of Western Philosophy I
This course provides an overview of major philosophical movements and thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. Students engage in close readings of primary texts and guided discussions informed by Philosophical Inquiry (PHiE) and Critical Pedagogy. Emphasis is placed on understanding how philosophical ideas develop in response to historical contexts and how they remain relevant today. The course aims to cultivate independent judgment and collective exploration of enduring questions.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
History of Western Philosophy II
This course provides an overview of major philosophical movements and thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. Students engage in close readings of primary texts and guided discussions informed by Philosophical Inquiry (PHiE) and Critical Pedagogy. Emphasis is placed on understanding how philosophical ideas develop in response to historical contexts and how they remain relevant today. The course aims to cultivate independent judgment and collective exploration of enduring questions.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
History of Western Philosophy III (16+)
This course provides an overview of major philosophical movements and thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. Students engage in close readings of primary texts and guided discussions informed by Philosophical Inquiry (PHiE) and Critical Pedagogy. Emphasis is placed on understanding how philosophical ideas develop in response to historical contexts and how they remain relevant today. The course aims to cultivate independent judgment and collective exploration of enduring questions.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
History of Western Philosophy IV (16+)
This course provides an overview of major philosophical movements and thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. Students engage in close readings of primary texts and guided discussions informed by Philosophical Inquiry (PHiE) and Critical Pedagogy. Emphasis is placed on understanding how philosophical ideas develop in response to historical contexts and how they remain relevant today. The course aims to cultivate independent judgment and collective exploration of enduring questions.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
Theory and Change (16+)
This course examines philosophical and social theories related to change, activism, and collective transformation. Drawing on Freire’s critical pedagogy, Marxist theory, and contemporary social thought, students reflect on the relationship between personal experience and structural forces. The approach integrates philosophical inquiry with critical reflection, supporting participants to connect theoretical frameworks to their own lives and aspirations for change.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 28 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
Philosophy of Lived Experience, Critical Reflection and Agency
In this course, students critically examine their own experiences and the social realities around them. The sessions combine philosophical inquiry, structured reflection exercises, and group discussion. The aim is to build confidence in articulating personal as well as collective perspectives while learning to situate individual experiences within broader philosophical and social frameworks. Emphasis is placed on fostering both self-understanding and collective insight.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 16 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
A Room of One’s Own Workshop: Reflect, Create, Connect
This five-session workshop offers a structured process for exploring experience through embodied awareness, creative expression, deep listening and shared reflection. Each session begins with guided meditation and somatic check-ins, which centre attention on bodily sensations and emotional states as a foundation for inquiry. This is followed by imaginative activation—using visualisation or poetic prompts—to loosen habitual thinking and invite symbolic or pre-verbal material to surface. Participants then engage in unstructured writing or drawing without censorship or interpretation, allowing memories, associations, and images to emerge in their own form. Reflection happens in two stages: first, individually, as participants revisit their creations through open-ended questions such as “What surprised me? What resisted expression?”; second, collectively, as the group shares reflections and listens for resonances and differences without imposing analysis. This process strengthens critical and creative thinking by cultivating attention to nuance and ambiguity, promoting trust in personal perception, and developing the capacity for deep listening. Through these practices, participants contribute to a collective exploration in which each perspective enriches and complicates the understanding of self and community.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 2 hours a week
Duration: 5 weeks followed by a 2 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Ongoing
Creative Writing and Reflective Storytelling I
This course offers a rich space for exploring personal and collective experience through writing, observation, and imaginative reconstruction. Each session combines structured practices—such as daily journalling, freewriting, character invention, and perspective-shifting—with exercises in dialogue, poetry, and shared storytelling. Participants learn to notice and describe the textures of memory and emotion, using tools like autowriting and sensory observation to loosen habitual thinking and reveal new associations. Reflection is woven into every stage: individually, as writers discover what their own words disclose, and collectively, as shared readings and discussions allow each person’s voice to be heard, questioned, and expanded by the group. By practising sustained attention to language—both its meaning and its rhythm—the course develops critical, empathetic, and creative thinking. Through this process, participants deepen their understanding of themselves and others, while learning to co-create narratives that honour complexity, ambiguity, and the shared work of making meaning together.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 3 hours a week
Duration: 14 weeks
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Completed
English Through Dialogue and Inquiry – Intermediate
This intermediate course helps learners express themselves clearly in English while developing critical thinking and empathy. Through tasks like guided dialogues, Socratic questioning, collaborative projects, and structured debates, participants practise articulating ideas, asking thoughtful questions, and defending viewpoints in real-life contexts. Emphasis is placed on examining assumptions, evaluating reasons, and considering diverse perspectives. Reflective discussions encourage active listening and empathetic responses. By engaging in these activities, students build both linguistic fluency and intellectual flexibility, preparing them to communicate thoughtfully and critically in diverse settings.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 1 hours a week
Duration: 12 weeks followed by a 2 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Ongoing
English Through Dialogue and Inquiry – Advanced
This advanced course sharpens learners’ English communication and critical thinking through complex debates, Socratic seminars, and collaborative research. Students practice articulating nuanced ideas, evaluating assumptions, and synthesizing diverse perspectives with cultural sensitivity. Reflective discussions develop advanced listening and empathy skills. The course fosters linguistic mastery and intellectual agility, preparing students for confident, thoughtful engagement in academic, professional, and cross-cultural settings.
Mode: Online
Frequency: 1 hours a week
Duration: 12 weeks followed by a 2 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Ongoing
Theory, Change, and Creative Expression (16+)
This course weaves together critical social theory with reflective storytelling and creative writing to support participants in exploring the relationship between personal experience and structural change. Each session combines discussion of philosophical and political ideas—such as power, inequality, resistance, and collective action—with exercises in narrative, dialogue, and poetic expression. Through practices like autowriting, memory work, character creation, and collaborative inquiry, participants learn to articulate their own perspectives, question assumptions, and imagine alternative futures. Reflection happens in both individual and collective forms: personally, as writing surfaces hidden connections between lived experience and broader social forces, and collectively, as shared dialogue and group critique deepen understanding and expand each person’s thinking. This integrated approach strengthens critical, creative, and empathetic capacities, enabling participants to develop language for naming injustice and envisioning transformation while building confidence in their voice as both thinkers and storytellers.
Duration: 16 weeks
Mode: Online
Frequency: 1 hours a week
Duration: 12 weeks followed by a 2 weeks interval
Audience: Persian speaking target audience (16 – 22 year old)
Status: Ongoing
