1. The Fruition
Academy
of Social Imagination and
Action
Narrated by:
Jessica R. Dreistadt

2. Imagine…
• Love
• Hope
• Freedom
• Peace
• Harmony
“Learning is a place where paradise
can be created”
bell hooks

3. Fruition Academy Goals
• Connect and mobilize progressive activists
• Open up possibilities
• New ideas and tools
• Opportunities for dialogue and
collaboration
“Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela

4. Fruition Academy Classes
• Ideas from scholarly and practitioner
research, personal experience, and the field
• Interpretation, integration, creation
• Holistic
• Interdisciplinary
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. Fruition Academy Classes
• Inspire curiosity and dialogue
• Provoke critical thought
• Bridge gaps in understanding
• Open our hearts and minds
• Prepare us for effective, sustainable action
“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.”
Mohandas Gandhi

6. Fruition Academy Students
“Leadership and learning are indispensable
to each other.”
John F. Kennedy

7. Approach to Education
• Open-ended and integrative
• Exploring ‘Why?’
• Expanding the desire to learn
• We are all students and teachers
• Opportunities for self-discovery
• Building a community
“I am not a teacher but an awakener.”
Robert Frost

8. Process of Education
”The world we have created is a product of our
thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our
thinking.”
Albert Einstein

9. Each Class Includes…
• Workbook
• Reflection questions
• Resources
• Recommendations
• Le Salon Utopique
• Certificate
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of
a fire.”
William Butler Yeats

10. Benefits for Students
• Save time and money
• Participate in real time or ‘you time’
• Replay and share with others
• Engage with an international learning
community
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

11. The Fruition
Academy
of Social Imagination and
Action
www.FruitionCoalition.com
“The future is not some place we are
going to, but a place we are
creating.” - Jane Garvey