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THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE

The Humanist Institute is a leadership training program created by the North American Committee for Humanism. Read more about the Institute in our new online brochure:

New!Read our 2008 brochure (4.5 MB PDF)New!

Or read the Humanist Institute's 2006 Brochure and Curriculum Outline for Class XIV

The materials from the Institute's pre-conference sessions at the American Humanist Association's 2007 Conference in Portland, Oregon, are now online.

A New Humanist Leadership Class will start December, 2008.

In December, 2008, the sixteenth Humanist Institute Leadership Class will begin. The three-year (2008-2011) graduate-level program consists of intensive reading and reflection, and three annual seminars, leading to a Graduate Certificate in Humanist Leadership. Please visit the Class XVI webpage below for more information:

The Humanist Institute Class XVI (2008-2011)

Curricula and readings of current and previous Humanist Leadership Classes:

The Humanist Institute Class XIV (2006-2009)

The Humanist Institute Class XIII (2004-2007)

The Humanist Institute Class XII (2003-2005)

The Humanist Institute Class XI (2001-2003)

The Humanist Institute Class X (2000-2002)

The Humanist Institute Class IX (1999-2001)

The Humanist Institute Class VIII (1997-1999)

The Humanist Institute Class VI (1993-1996)

The Humanist Institute Class V (1992-1995)

Journal & Publications

The Institute publishes an annual journal, Humanism Today. Ordering instructions, and the online text of some issues, are available at the Humanism Today web site.

The first of a new series of occasional papers is available in print and online.

You can also read some of the Dean's Letters to Humanist Institute Classes online.

Websites of organizations that have members and leaders who are graduates of The Humanist Institute:

American Ethical Union

American Humanist Association

Council for Secular Humanism

Freedom from Religion Foundation

HUUmanists (formerly the Friends of Religious Humanism)

Humanist Association of Canada

The Humanist Society

International Humanist and Ethical Union

Society for Humanistic Judaism

Unitarian Universalist Association

The Humanist Institute is a member of the Coalition for the Community of Reason


For more information about the North American Committee for Humanism and The Humanist Institute, or to register for classes, please contact:

NACH/The Humanist Institute
c/o Kristin Wintermute, Business Manager
PMB #220, 8014 Olson Memorial Hwy
Golden Valley, MN 55427-4712
Email: manager@humanistinstitute.org

Kendyl Gibbons and Carol Wintermute, Co-Deans
The Humanist Institute
Email: dean@humanistinstitute.org


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