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EDSN Plexlearning Lifestyle Programs

 Lifelong learning communities advancing civic engagement, accountable governance, and sustainable ways of being through mindful peer reviewed Research-to-Practice (R2P).   

EDSN Plexlearning Lifestyle Programs form the foundation of Lifestyle Academies and Neighborhood Centers that leverage trusted long-term relationships.  These relationships evolved from experiential learning, sponsored research, and distributed knowledge networks rooted in place-based realities and objectives.  Together, these programs strengthen civic engagement, curiosity-driven inquiry, accountable governance, and mutual respect within the politics of being as epistemic agents.  Within EDSN, knowledge and other epistemic achievements are not understood as static or final, but as sufficiently viable foundations from which deeper and more mindful understandings emerge through continuous reflection, co-learning, co-adopting, and co-creating.     Contact us to learn more and become engaged. 

Workforce Pipeline Development

AI Skills Retooling & Development

Accessible opportunities for meaningful skills retooling that strengthen adaptation to co-learning and collaborative thinking with autonomous technological agents.  

STEAM Workshops & Gateway Courses

Intergenerational one-on-one co-learning experiences focused on knowledge transfer and the co-adoption of meaningful pathways toward growth and improved understanding.

Resident Fellows & Student Interns

Plexlearning opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and students to be imbedded in place-based communities or special interest learning communities.  

Workforce & Lifestyle Academies

Curriculum and spaces for developing evolving understandings of workforce and lifestyle opportunities for meaningful action within one’s environment.   

Research to Practice Partnerships

Community Engagement Cost-Sharing 

EDSN membership provides shared access to technologies, coordinated bulk purchasing, and professional services designed to reduce expenses expand capacity.  

Makerspace Labs

Shared community spaces with access to specialized tools and equipment for repairs, hands-on skills training, innovation, and the strengthening of local productive capacity.

Peer Review and Self Evaluation

Peer Review and Self-Evaluation within EDSN provide structured processes for quality assurance, professional growth, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Entrepreneurship Labs​

EDSN Entrepreneurship Labs provide support for testing proof-of-concept ideas, evaluating products and services, and analyzing business strategies.

Plexlearning Applications

Financial Education Research Lab​

Program to deepen our understanding of the social behaviors and mental effects associated with being cash-poor -- even when credit-rich and own or control fixed asset.  

Place-based Sustainability initiatives

Reframing success in growth and sustainability beyond economies of scale, by prioritizing trusted relationships and well-being over profit maximization.  

Lifestyle & Career Management

long-term, peer-reviewed engagement and accountable support within trusted small-groups that strengthen self-confidence, personal agency, and access to meaningful resources and opportunities.

EDSN Personal Epistemic Library

Use of autonomous technological agents to expand personal bookshelves beyond physical collections towards dynamic systems of knowledge, understanding, and the ways we acquire organize, and validate what we know.

Community Engagements

Sports, Health, and Wellbeing

Sports, health, and wellbeing programs to promote community quality of life, physical health, and overall wellbeing through participation in sports, recreation, and active lifestyles.   

Navigating the Politics of Being

On-demand programs that support individuals and groups in affirming, understanding, and navigating the lived realities and politics of being within their social and natural environments.  

Horticulture & Food Production Labs

Small-group initiatives that integrate lifestyle engagement, food security, sustainable growing practices, plant-soil science, and community-based food production.   

Local Security and Infrastructure 

Sponsored programs that advance local community engagement, stewardship and improvement of essential local infrastructure and environmental quality.