For Modern Stoicism, there are six main purposes These provide an ethos, a mission, a direction, and accountability. We actually do so many different things now that it might be hard to keep track of some of them – all the more reason for providing an overview here! Modern Stoicism’s MissionĮvery company has a set of purposes. We consolidated the Stoicism Today blog with the Modern Stoicism website, and built up a significant base of readership. Additional projects were undertaken, and many of them came to be integral and recurring parts of our work. New members came on while some of the original founders retired from the team. Over the years, the organization and the community it serves has grown considerably.

And from early on, the team began engaging in quantitative research about the effects of practicing Stoicism. They also started the blog you’re reading right now, Stoicism Today, originally edited by Patrick Ussher. Suffice it to say that – as far as the Modern Stoicism organization goes – the original conference in 2012, and the following “Live Like A Stoic” week that came out of it, are one main starting point.įrom that point onward, the working group regularly held an annual conference with talks, workshops, and symposia – what developed into Stoicon – and hosted the online class called “Stoic Week”, which did indeed (and still does) invite people to incorporate Stoic ideas and practices into their daily life to see what differences it makes for them. Sometime down the line, we’ll likely produce a sort of mini-documentary about the rise of interest in contemporary applications and interpretations of Stoicism over the last few decades and how that brought together a number of philosophers, psychotherapists, and professionals from other fields into a growing conversation about ancient Stoicism adapted to modern times. But as Stoicism worldwide attracts more and more interest, and many new people start studying, practicing, and inquiring about it, we thought that it is probably time to provide an overview about the Modern Stoicism organization. Those of you who started reading Stoicism Today, participating in Stoic Week or the SMRT course, or going to the international Stoicon conferences before that likely remember that time of transition.

Modern Stoicism, Ltd has been an official non-profit organization since incorporating in 2017.

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