Renaissance Weekend

• Approach
• Sample Program
• Sample Camp Program

Our Approach

Every Renaissance Weekend® addresses a broad range of public policy and personal subjects, including current events and central issues of the times. Each gathering includes many nationally distinguished authorities in diverse fields, and their contributions are supplemented by remarks from highly informed fellow participants.

The Weekends are comprised of hundreds of lectures, small seminars, focused panel sessions, large free-for-all discussions, skill-related workshops, and half-day Academies. A half-dozen to 20 simultaneous programs throughout each day, with several plenary sessions, permit each participant to tailor-make a personal schedule. Lively discussion is encouraged, and the tone is decidedly relaxed. All may come-and-go as they like.

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Some have likened Renaissance Weekends to "mini-universities" or reunions of an extended family of highly accomplished individuals. Programs always include specific sessions on business, finance and investments, international affairs, government and politics, medicine, science and technology, religion and philosophy, energy and the environment, literature and the arts, non-profits, philanthropy and NGOs, journalism, media and entertainment, health and fitness, computers and the Internet, psychology, travel and recreation, and family legacies and concerns. Music and laughter punctuate serious discussions.

Each Renaissance program, designed to highlight the unique competencies of individual participants, is organized about two weeks before the Weekend, and a Tentative Program with several assignments for each participant is e-mailed to them at that time. The final Program is only available at Registration.