The Aspen Seminar
Leadership, Values and the Good Society

For more than fifty years, the Aspen Seminar has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply about the good society. Our proven method of text-based dialogue offers participants a neutral forum in which to reflect on timeless human values, pursue common ground, and cultivate a richer understanding of the human condition. Participants emerge from the Aspen Seminar personally renewed, professionally re-focused, and better prepared to lead as they confront the difficult choices of our ever-changing world.

In a setting conducive to thought and fellowship, each seminar convenes a diverse group of 15-20 leaders for lively, intensive roundtable discussions led by skilled moderators. Classic and contemporary texts reflecting the breadth of human civilization form the starting points of a rich conversation in which the questions posed by the group are frequently as illuminating as the varied, timeless wisdom of the texts. Countless seminar graduates report that they leave the seminar personally and professionally invigorated, more skilled in making decisions, and often so transformed by their experience that they chart a new course of action. Who participates in the Aspen Seminar?

• Top leaders from all walks of life who are looking for a leadership development program that focuses on questions rather than on answers.
• Successful leaders who want to clarify their core values as they strive to live more significant professional and personal lives.
• Visionary leaders who are looking to understand better the tensions inherent in conceptions of the good society.
• Global leaders from the 13 leadership initiatives that make up the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
• Concerned leaders who want to be challenged to think more deeply and act more justly.

Seminars are held at our Aspen campus in Colorado and our Wye River campus alongside the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Cost to attend in 2008: $8,000. (The cost is inclusive of lodging, meals, group events, and materials. Airfare is not included; early booking is strongly recommended.)

For information on how to be nominated to participate in the Aspen Seminar, please contact Charlene Costello, Senior Seminars Coordinator (charlene.costello@aspeninstitute.org; phone: 410-820-5374).

February 16 - 21, 2008 in Aspen, CO

March 7 - 12, 2008 in Aspen, CO 

May 31 - June 5, 2008 in Aspen, CO 

June 21 - 26, 2008 in Wye River, MD

July 12 - 17, 2008 in Aspen, CO 

August 2 - 7, 2008 in Aspen, CO

August 16 - 21, 2008 in Aspen, CO 

September 6 - 11, 2008 in Aspen, CO 

October 25 - 30, 2008 in Wye River, MD