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FOR CURRENT PARTICIPANTS

Your next conversation
starts here.

Find your Pod or single session below. Expand a session to see its readings, then open the Google folder to access them.

Pod readings

One big life question. Three sessions. Choose the session you’re preparing for.

3-SESSION POD · Portland

What is home?

  • SAMPLE READINGS
    On Going Home, Joan Didion
    A Native Hill, Wendell Berry

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  • SAMPLE READINGS
    The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
    The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W. B. Yeats

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  • SAMPLE READINGS
    The Gift, Li-Young Lee
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes

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3-SESSION POD · Online

Are we who we’ve always been?

  • SAMPLE READINGS
    The Other, Jorge Luis Borges
    Speak, Memory, Oliver Sacks
    On Aging, Maya Angelou

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  • SAMPLE READINGS
    Goodness, Toni Morrison
    Thank You, Ma’am, Langston Hughes

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  • SAMPLE READINGS
    The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Summer Day, Mary Oliver

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Single-session readings

One conversation. A fresh perspective. Find your session below.

  • SAMPLE READINGS
    On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Friedrich Nietzsche
    Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Emily Dickinson

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  • SAMPLE READINGS
    The Lottery Ticket, Anton Chekhov
    The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry

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Bring your questions. Bring your curiosity.

Preparation between sessions is designed to take under two hours.

Need help finding your readings? Email mary@premiseinstitute.com.

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