Leadership Education Mentoring Institute

Last weekend I attended an amazing training called Liber Community Series with LEMI, Leadership Education Mentoring Institute. It was INCREDIBLE! There were about 24 people I had never met before in the training and I left that weekend feeling like I had known them for years! This sense of community was created in such a short time through experiences that I will now be able to take into and recreate in my own community.

In the manual it states the following:
The Liber Community Series is empowering families and communities by:

1. Encouraging a progessive Scholar Phase* while teaching abilities and skills needed for its success; in preparation for a broad and deep study of the classics.
2. Teaching and encouraging principles of leadership.
3. Offering a peer enviornment that encourages growth of knowledge, understanding and character.
4. Providing mentoring and tools for individuals who desire to influence the cause of liberty through education and virtue.

*Scholar Phase is "a readiness to apply a new level of effort to personal and academic achievement through a process of commitments and accountability" (definition taken from A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver DeMille).

We were immersed in experiences such as oral exams, writing workshops, book discussions, and oral presentations that required us to dig deep within us and share our personal growth with each other. It was beautiful to watch each other struggle with a concept and come out with greater understanding of it and of ourselves. I encourage you to check out the LEMI Website for more information about their mission and how they accomplish it!