Why deep and wide?

Deep and Wide Academy Established in Love

A Curiously Different Education for a Boundless Life

The Deep and Wide Academy is a new endeavour that offers a curiously different kind of education. 

It is an approach to education that focuses less on the transfer of theoretical information from “expert” to “student”, and more on the experiential practice of wisdom to help us live well - both individually and together. 

We believe the deepest truths will be known in our bodies, minds, hearts and spirits. Acknowledging and honouring the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual connections that exist within us is central to our approach.

Asking questions is also central. Not all of the questions asked will have immediate answers. Some questions might just prompt further questions. We expect to learn even in the asking. In this we are following in the footsteps of Rabbi Jesus, who asked way more questions than he answered. 

We will be releasing a new online course every month that you can interact with individually, at your own pace. Or, even better, you could join a group of friends to interact with the material together. 

Our courses will go very deep. We will explore issues related to faith, human well-being, and our social and cultural landscapes with intellectual, psychological and spiritual intensity and rigour. 

Our courses will also go very wide. We are interested in the full swathe of the human experience, and are eager to explore the vast breadth of topics that present themselves to us. 

We will be creative; we will have fun; we will be interactive; we will be diverse; we will be grounded; we will be accessible; we will be hopeful; we will be communal.

The Deep and Wide Academy was established, chronologically, in 2024, but more accurately we are continually being rooted and established in love. It is the love that Creator has for creation, and the love that we are invited to have for our Creator and for one another, that we intend to be the cornerstone of the learning, growing and transforming that happens in and through the Deep and Wide Academy.