Hard Work And Bittersweet Fruit
By Stefanie Takacs In our April and July newsletters, we wrote about our Saturday community discussions—one of our early responses to being physically isolated
Recent Fiction as Navigating an Emerging and a Virtual World
A New Touchstones Discussion Program Since late spring, once a month 12 professionals— lawyers, CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs—sign onto a ZOOM meeting to spend 90
Bridging the Distance
By Stefanie Takacs Over the last five months, we’ve become more acutely aware of distance. The word enters our daily language more times and
Shaping the New Normal
By Jenn Macris Like other non-profits, businesses and organizations around the world, Touchstones is moving forward in the new normal we all face due
Transformative Giving
Elliott Zuckerman Self-portrait as Landscape #1. 1999 By Alexandra Fotos Last year, Touchstones received an extraordinary gift from the estate of Elliott
Adapting to a Remote- Access World
By Abraham Zhao The staff at Touchstones is hard at work making necessary transitions in this new educational environment online. Some teachers we have
Reflections from Within
By Jenn Macris Fyodor Dostoyevsky famously wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Recently I
Honoring the Legacy of Geoffrey J. Comber
Last November, Touchstones received the very sad news that one of the founders of the Touchstones Discussion Project had passed away. Geoffrey J. Comber
Our Approach to Uncertainty
By Stefanie Takacs We at Touchstones are well-versed in and quite comfortable with situations of high uncertainty—what is more unpredictable than a Touchstones workshop
Reinventing Home with Veterans
An Interview With Howard Zeiderman I understand you’re getting ready to release the newest Touchstones program volume. Tell me a little about it. This
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