Lewin’s Legacy in Motion

20 Years of The Lewin Center. A Century of Influence. A Future We Shape Together.

For 20 years, The Lewin Center has carried forward Kurt Lewin’s enduring belief that understanding and action go hand in hand.

As we celebrate this milestone, we are looking back with gratitude and forward with purpose. Across a year of conversation, connection, and shared inquiry, we are asking what Lewin’s legacy can offer the challenges of this moment and what it asks of us next.

At the center of our anniversary is one question:

What does the world need from us now?

Join us as we explore that question together through Lewin Dialogues, a series of participatory conversations throughout the anniversary year, culminating in an in-person gathering designed to turn reflection into possibility and possibility into action.

Two Ways to Join the Conversation:

Lewin Dialogues

Conversations for the questions this moment is asking.

Throughout the anniversary year, Lewin Dialogues will bring people together for timely, provocative conversations about leadership, change, institutions, communities, and the common good.
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20th Anniversary Culminating Event

Co-Creating What’s Next

Our anniversary year will culminate in an in-person gathering to reflect on what we have learned, connect across perspectives, and imagine what this legacy asks of us in the years ahead.
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A Legacy Meant to Move

Kurt Lewin’s work changed how generations of leaders, scholars, practitioners, and communities understand people, groups, organizations, and change. His ideas were never intended to remain on the page. They were meant to help people understand the forces shaping their world and use that understanding to make it better.
The Lewin Center was founded 20 years ago to keep that spirit of inquiry, participation, and action alive.
This anniversary is an opportunity not simply to celebrate that history, but to put it to work.
We can’t wait to engage in conversation with you!

About The Lewin Center

Based on the legacy of Kurt Lewin’s work in the applied behavioral sciences, we support gatherings of students, educators and practitioners that inspire action and continued collaboration.

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The Lewin Center brings people together

to engage in experiential learning, dialogue and action research on social justice issues at the global, national, and community levels to enhance the quality of life for all.

Things we value

Experiential & Lifelong Learning

A framework that integrates the major processes of human growth and development – feeling, perceiving, thinking and doing.This framework is the theoretical underpinning of action research.

Community Building

Processes of engagement that help people explore and clarify their shared purpose, interests, concerns and possibilities.

Social Action & Social Change

Supporting the actions of groups and individuals to make positive adjustments in their lives and circumstances.

Action & Participatory Research

Collaborative methods based in collective inquiry that engage those involved in an experience in co-creation from the outset. The process simultaneously creates new ways of learning, interacting and working.

Social Justice

Working toward the fair and equal distribution of resources and opportunities among all human beings.

Diversity & Inclusion

Honoring our value that all perspectives have value and that groups operate best when every member is welcomed as a full participant.