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What is The Wisdom Institute?
About the Director of The Wisdom Institute
What We Do
How We Do It
Who Needs Wisdom?
What You Can Do with Wisdom
Services and Offerings

What is the Wisdom Institute

The Wisdom Institute supports the development of wisdom in people, organizations, and communities through education, research, and consultation. We seek to help our clients move more consciously toward wisdom throughout their lives.

The work of The Wisdom Institute is based on psychology and adult development, philosophy, leadership, education, world religions, spirituality, myth, and literature. It adheres to no one religion or ideology and is not affiliated with any church, university, or political party.

About the Director of The Wisdom Institute

Caroline L. Bassett, Ph.D., has done pioneering research on wisdom and its applications for today’s world. Her presentations on the subject range from the academic to the intensely practical and have been sponsored by a widely diverse range of organizations from the International Association of Facilitators and the Association for Psychological Type to academic conferences. She also teaches classes on wisdom.

Currently Carrie is a faculty member at two graduate institutions, Walden University and Capella University. She has been a university administrator, a corporate trainer, a career counselor, a past president of the Minnesota Jung Association, a Peace Corps Volunteer, and is a board member of the Theatre de la Jeune Lune, a regional Tony-award winning theatre. She holds a doctorate in higher education from the University of Iowa.

What We Do

The Wisdom Institute:

• Explores the nature, uses, and benefits of wisdom.
• Acts as a forum for sharing about wisdom.
• Provides community for people who want to learn about wisdom and have more of it in their lives.
• Creates practical applications for wisdom for individuals, organizations, and communities.

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How We Do It

The Wisdom Institute employs the following strategies:

• Offering presentations, classes, seminars, and workshops on wisdom and its application.
• Facilitating ongoing groups for people who want to learn more about wisdom.
• Connecting people to important resources on wisdom.
• Conducting research on the dynamic of wisdom.
• Coaching for leadership and personal development.
• Consulting on projects that apply wisdom to current issues or concerns.

Who Needs Wisdom?

• Professionals dealing with conflicting or difficult demands.
• People caught up in the busyness of life who are curious about deeper levels of fulfillment.
• Leaders being challenged to make the best use of resources—including themselves.
• Seekers trying to understand their place in the world.
• People dissatisfied with the status quo who want to make things better for themselves and for others.

What You Can Do with Wisdom

• Find greater significance in your life.
• Develop new patterns of individual and organizational effectiveness.
• Learn to see things as they are, not merely as the ego would like them to be.
• Feel more at home and at peace with yourself.
• Make better decisions for the long and the short term.
• Lead more effectively toward a more just and humane world.
• Expand the scope of your moral imagination.
• See more clearly the options and consequences of a complex situation.
• Use your energy to create a more positive future.
• Expand your generosity of spirit.
• Understand and experience true compassion.
• See the big picture.
• Honor the wisdom in others