In January 2025, 50 students from 18 countries across 10 schools at Harvard came together to ask a profound question: what does it mean to be human?
Over ten days, the students and the teaching team engaged in a deeply experiential exploration of this question, drawing on reflection, readings, art, music, philosophy, and relationship building. Rather than examining human experience in isolated pieces, they sought to bring the whole person into the learning process—integrating a humanistic lens into their leadership practices.
Join us on February 26th at 9am Eastern Time for a showcase of the Being Human course—a powerful program inviting students to explore what it truly means to be human amid the rampant dehumanization in the world around us.
We will hear from Professors Marshall Ganz and Chris Robichaud, and the dedicated teaching team, about the course’s distinctive and innovative pedagogy that includes multimodal learning, learning teams, and coaching. We will also explore the course’s unique content such as games, art making, film screening, museum visits, and more. These exercises are designed to enable students to experience what it means to be human—recognizing moments when we see and are seen, and when we are not.
The course can also offer insights for educators, coaches, and trainers in our community around diverse ways to engage in educational content, foster collective learning, and integrate a humanistic lens into our leadership
Whether you are part of the LCN community, working in higher education, or centering human-centered approaches in your work, we invite you to join this session and discover the possibilities of learning that revolves around our shared humanity.
Come experience why this course has been described as one of the most transformative learning experiences participants and teaching team have encountered—and what it can teach us.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and experience the unique pedagogy and content of the Being Human course
• Reflect on the possibilities around multimodal, experiential, and shared approaches to learning
• Explore insights from the course that you can take forward in your own leadership work and practice

For more information about this event please contact Sachiko Osawa