Because Kallion is committed to training Agents of Leadership, our programming is grounded in the Humanities, a field that includes humanity’s collective record of art, music, literature, philosophy, and history across all times and cultures. We believe that the humanities works of any and all cultures can inform leadership development.

Carefully studying this humanistic record is a slow, reflective process that focuses on details, context, analysis, and interconnectedness. Study allows for multiple meanings and changing perspectives. It is motivated by passionate curiosity and dispassionate reasoning, with the goal of knowledge and personal development. Study involves taking ownership of understanding by crafting a “distillation” of a complex work rather than relying on someone else to distill it for you.

Kallion promotes the study of the humanities through Diverse Communities. Community involvement entails an ongoing commitment of time, energy, ideas, and resources on the part of all members toward its collective health and wellbeing. Our communities are comprised of diverse members with multiple identities, such as educators, learners, professionals, researchers, writers, artists, and performers. Over time, community members come to “think with” each other in two ways: (1) they share information, insights, and reactions to the humanities works they study with each other, and (2) they absorb and think with the perspectives of others as they navigate their own leadership challenges.

For Kallion, the study of the humanities in communities always returns to the challenge of translating study into practice with a Commitment to Lead through four basic questions:

1 – Do I have the capacity to lead in the ways I have been studying?

2 – Do I have the opportunity to lead?

3 – Would I actually address the needs, and activate the potential, of others?

4 – Would I find happiness and fulfillment in this leadership?