Merlin CCC

We’re a Helena-based non-profit organization dedicated to enriching lives and strengthening the community and environment through philosophy. We believe very deeply in the value and relevance of philosophy and its ability to improve our everyday lives.  We also believe that it is (and should be) a resource for everyone — regardless of background or age — and that it is not meant to be closed away in some book, but to be lived.

Our organization’s mission (and what it is that we do) is to create, develop, and provide a broad-spectrum of unique, fun & accessible opportunities for the Helena community to do, breathe & live philosophy. Cross-disciplinary & inclusive, our activities and services are designed for people of all backgrounds and ages (from children to elders), including businesses, and are geared to:

• spark and encourage the exchange of ideas & the fun of doing philosophy

• promote critical, creative thought & reflection

• cultivate the faculty & virtue of “philosophical sensitivity”

• nurture and contribute to a sense of imagination and wonder

• reconnect people with nature by way of doing philosophy in inspiring places

• facilitate the application of philosophy to matters of everyday living

• inspire leadership & meaningful action, and

• build, foster & strengthen the community and environment