Aesthetic Knowledge is the deep, holistic knowledge that can only be gained by doing. It is a practical, sensory knowledge that once made up our entire understanding of the world. In this experiential realm, the whole person is engaged—mind, muscles, heart, and...
VISIONS is a unique teen summer program that has worked for over twenty-five years to create programs that enable teenagers to experience the richness of other cultures through long standing community relationships, challenging work, and invigorating travel. The...
Article originally published by: Riverdale Country School This summer Noa Weinstein, a senior, spent part of her summer vacation in Peru with VISIONS Service Adventures, an international service learning program. Noa was one of 20 high school students who traveled to...
Hundreds of high school students volunteer every summer, and many go abroad to countries where the foreign language could be a barrier to more than passing connections with local people. For over 20 years our participants have been showing us that teenagers,...
Monique Schmidt directed VISIONS service programs abroad in Guadeloupe and at home in Montana. A poet, teacher and published author (her memoir Last Moon Dancing is the story of her Peace Corps years in Africa), Monique moved to Rwanda last November tobe Program...
Reflections on VISIONS Vietnam 2009 by Alex Ottenstein I sit down on Hue’s bed, a metal frame with a bamboo mat on top of it. Hue is eleven years old, with luminous eyes and long black hair that reaches her waist. She wants to teach me a board game. I know this will...
