About CCI
The Center for Creative Inquiry was founded in 2000 to explore alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.
The Center for Creative Inquiry is inspired by and rooted in the Time, Space, Knowledge vision of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. Cutting across disciplines, Center for Creative Inquiry aims to identify and challenge basic assumptions that limit the styles of knowing available to us, the methods we use, and the knowledge we can discover.
We also seek to illuminate and liberate ourselves from hidden biases and from patterns at the systemic level that hinder our collective ability to thrive.
The creative inquiry approach is interactive, experiential, cooperative, and engaged. Never defined in advance, creative inquiry is also just plain fun: stimulating, surprising, and always new.
Creative inquiry is a way to find out who we are and what makes us tick. Knowledge becomes multidimensional, and new forms of understanding arise from moment to moment. Through active communities of inquiry, we can channel this new understanding into our own lives and into the social structures and shared perspectives of the culture we inhabit.
What We Do
Building community
Teaching meditative practices
Sharing the TSK Vision
Expanding limits
Full Presence Mindfulness
The Center for Creative Inquiry is home to Full Presence Mindfulness, a unique approach to mindfulness based on the TSK vision and developed by Jack Petranker. Full Presence Mindfulness centers mindfulness on the field of experience instead of the self. It emphasizes multidimensionality and softening the sharp distinctions we make between self and other.
Our organization is also dedicated to developing an innovative education model called NowHere, designed to bring contemplative, creative, interpersonal, and nature-oriented practices to teachers and younger generations. We believe in nurturing holistic growth by integrating meditation, artistic exploration, communication and deep connections with the natural world, empowering educators and students to cultivate presence, creativity, and meaningful relationships within and beyond the classroom.