Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.

Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder

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The Art of Moderating
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The Art of Moderating

Powell’s approach, like most seminar moderators at the Aspen Institute, is deeply rooted in the Aspen method. Though he certainly gives his seminars their own flavor.

A group of seminar participants sit in a circular arrangement at a roundtable, engaged in discussion.
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Reflections on the Seminar Experience

“It was a seismic shift in the way I understood the world.”