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@isabelagranic.bsky.social
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developmental psychologist | complexity science | poetry | tech4mental health | Director, Games for Emotional & Mental Health: gemhlab.com | @McMasterU | Co-founder, Liminal Learning liminal-learning.com linktr.ee/isabela_granic

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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Gen Z is Crossing the Threshold into Adulthood and We Need to Show Up for Them substack.com/@isabelagran...
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Gen Z is Crossing the Threshold into Adulthood and We Need to Show Up for Them
On “failure to launch,” the developmental passage into adulthood, and what actually helps
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I've just written an essay on why "failure to launch" is an AWFUL phrase to lay on Gen Z and how we can do better. isabelagranic.substack.com/p/gen-z-is-c...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Before anything, we co-regulate our nervous systems
I just returned from a little holiday with my sons.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I wrote about collective effervescence and why it's so important for learning and flourishing: isabelagranic.substack.com/p/dancing-du...
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Dancing, Durkheim, and the Alchemy of Collective Change
Thinking about Collective Effervescence
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
More details on [the program here](liminal-learning.com/program). Liminal Learning is a nonprofit, aiming to provide 30% of its places on scholarship over its lifetime.
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Liminal Learning
Liminal Learning offers a comprehensive “world-readiness” program that prepares young people (ages ~18–24 years) to thrive. Young people need strong friendships, a sense of agency, and trusted mentors...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The yearlong program helps young people find their way in work, study, and life. We start with a weeklong retreat in the wilderness (Quest), and continues with online and offline programming. Check out some of the testimonials from our last cohort: liminallearning.substack.com
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The Liminal Post | Liminal Learning | Substack
News and community updates from Liminal Learning — a collective launch into purposeful adulthood. Click to read The Liminal Post, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We've got 5 scholarship places open for Liminal Learning's next cohort, starting October 19: liminal-learning.com/upcoming-que...!
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Liminal Learning — Quests
A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I wrote about the power of love to liberate... and how education can do the same. open.substack.com/pub/isabelag...
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Love (and Education) Liberates
It's been a harrowing week of working around the clock with some of the most devoted, talented people I know, pulling off massive milestones for a collective dream called Liminal Learning. We submitte...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I've started a newsletter. If you're interested in ideas about how to support the next generation of young adults, parenting adult youth, and how to make this world a much better place by loving SO big and bravely and being ALL IN, please subscribe: isabelagranic.substack.com?r=1mri0p&utm...
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Isabela Granic | Substack
Recovering academic/developmental psychology professor, co-founder of Liminal Learning (a communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood). I love poetry, complexity science, creativity in collectives, ...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Oh how WONDERFUL. I'm so grateful! Can't wait to dive in tonight... many thanks!
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"... that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.” - Joanna Macy
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I wish I knew where to go on this platform to talk more about this wonder of a woman, Joanna Macy. I miss her so, already.
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Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 25/06/2025
In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...
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Neither/Nor Paper Discussion 🎧
With Isabela Granic
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Join us for a live Q&A on Wednesday, July 16th at 6pm EST to learn about upcoming Quests and the Liminal Learning program. There's SO MUCH going on in young people's lives; we're helping them navigate the transition to adulthood collectively, with joy & curiosity. Registration: liminal-learning.com
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Liminal Learning — Home
A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm thrilled to share this story in the Kingstonist. They did SUCH a beautiful piece on Liminal Learning. The SWEETEST part is hearing our Pioneers (the first cohort of youth who joined us on the Quest last year) react to the piece with such pride and glee. www.kingstonist.com/news/liminal...
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Liminal Learning aims to help young people 'thrive in a world of flux' – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) A new venture, based partly in Kingston, is aiming to support young adults in their journey toward independence, or “purposeful adulthood."
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Learn more about how our Quests -- weeklong immersions in the wilderness with like-hearted peers and mentors -- become the foundations of the rest of our Liminal Learning curriculum. liminallearning.substack.com/p/why-start-...
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Why start with a Quest?
Why we think Quests matter, plus a sneak peek of our Quest location at Elbow Lake
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Excellent 1-min summary of data on the loneliness epidemic. Similar trend in N. American, Europe, the UK, the Nordic countries, & Australia. This is one of our biggest motivators at Liminal Learning: we set the conditions for young people to make lifelong friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w3...
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The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With
YouTube video by The Pudding
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Important report/call to action by Next In Mind focused on emerging adults' (18-29 years old) urgent need for support, care, and community. They're facing astronomical mental health problems. Yet we know at Liminal Learning that they're also at the cusp of so much opportunity. www.nextinmind.org
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Next in Mind
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Visionary, timely, effective, AND based on well-known developmental principles! Youth need something else beside multiple choice and status quo if they are going to thrive and work collectively on solutions we/they desparately need over the next generation. Highly recommend. 5 stars
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
HELLO! Here's what I've been up to for the last 2 years! If you're 18-24 years old, come join us for a Quest! Liminal Learning is preparing young people to thrive in a world in flux, together. We are focused on collective flourishing and it shows 🥰. Come see what's on offer: liminal-learning.com
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Liminal Learning — Home
A communal launch into purpose-driven adulthood. Immersive communal experiences built on evolutionary principles of play and experimentation.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thrilled to share how Liminal Learning is helping young people launch into adulthood. Here, I explain the rationale of our hybrid (offline/online) learning model. www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nS... If you're interested in joining us on a Quest, get in touch here: liminal-learning.com/upcoming-que...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Getting my Covid shot and reminded of this poem: firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescr... (Translated from German by Robert Bly)
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Losing memory for source (e.g., names, dates, book titles, titles of movies/books, etc). Not the content, but sources.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
I'm excited (and a tad nervous) to share w/ you a special conversation I had w/ Guy Sengstock, founder of the Circling Institute. His curiosity & care kindled personal stories from me that I rarely share, but reveal core motivations for my next big project. Thoughts? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys5r...
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
No other app has given me such a quality of life boost and a genuine sense of kid-like “oh wow…” than Readwise Reader. They just shipped a bunch of new features but their core experience remains what I come back to daily, with pleasure. readwise.io/reader/update-august2023
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
You’re a BABY. live another 10 and tell me you don’t change your mind…
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
This is a phenomenal series, and a unique piece of emergent, collective art. A bit podcast-y, a lot like old-school letters, a bit of the PostSecret feel to it also. And you can also be a part of it yourself, just send in a little voice note answering this timeless question:
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
Absolutely. I’ll wait a bit for anyone else to chime in and then be in touch 🚀🙏
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
Has anyone read this? I’d love a chat with a few people re. its thesis and the implications. It’s very good, nuanced & radical re. shifting capitalist mindsets & how we work, play, make art, build useful stuff. If you’d be interested in talking w/ others, pls lmk & I’ll organize
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
"Every being cries out silently to be read differently." Simone Weil
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
Being torn apart over here, how about you? youtu.be/0PJ2nufgWRc
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 20/06/2023
What’s up with you all? I’ve been eating poetry and feeling so full I may not sleep tonight:
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 19/06/2023
I’d love to see more poetry on my feeds. Anyone know how to find my poetry peeps on here? I’ll put out what I want to see more of in this world, poems. Here’s one I love by Rilke:
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 07/06/2023
Have a listen to Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book @bryankam is working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠I talk to him about the Buddhist term "papança" (sorta rumination) and how it relates to anxiety and depression and much more! shorturl.at/nrHZ5
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
Here's another link if the above one doesn't work! relatingtoself.transistor.fm/episod…
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
Take a luxurious soak in what feels to me like a new art form. I was moved, elevated, and inspired by this "epistolary" on beauty, quality, and aesthetic enjoyment, delivered as intimate voicenotes between @bryankam.com and @joachim.bsky.social shorturl.at/euyQ8
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 22/05/2023
You two are adorable and I don’t know any back story but thank you for sharing it with us♥️
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 19/05/2023
Absolutly thrilled to be sharing this deeply inspiring project on collective healing. Funded by the Templeton World Charity Fdn, we’re just getting started. Come join us as we build, learn, and connect across disciplines and our varied experiences. ♥️ t.co/a66S20SU7p
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
EXTREMELY privileged to have worked with such talented producers. Stories of Impact made a gorgeous documentary about our lab's work which focuses on games designed for young people's wellbeing. It's been honoured with an Award of Excellence! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDBrm1qClEU
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
This is SUCH an important insight I too had early in my parenting experience. But being at the tail end of the most intense years (they’re 17 yrs old now), I can say that it was a much more joyful, healing, and hopeful process than I feared. I think you’re already so far by seeing the challenge🫶💪🚀
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
I lived in the Netherlands for a decade and this is PRECISELY how I felt. Could never explain my sense of unease in the vast flatland. From Romania and lived a few places, all had their nooks and bumps and hiding spaces.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
Same
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
I’m a random person so wishing I knew the backstory to this and other similar stories here… I can’t quite figure out how to follow these discussions here.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
Same!
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
It’s tough because I also feel a bit odd trying to pull people over when the What’s Hot is random in-jokes, fun boobies, and very little academic stuff so far. I know it’s a matter of time. But I’m just supporting your point about getting in a bunch at once.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
Come join us! I’m pretty sure you’ll change one or two mindsets in some recognizable way. These are practices that fire up collective creativity in novel ways and I’m genuinely excited to get into the fray with you all. 🤩 interintellect.com/salon/from-conce…
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
I love this challenge and im deeply committed to thinking through this exact challenge. Stay tuned!
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
Will do! That’s a great idea. I’ll try to post monthly (at least) updates of the main points we’re covering in our discussion group.
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Isabela @isabelagranic.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
For me, I’m focused on kindling these dialogues through a new initiative I’m hoping will get some traction with young people and their potential cross- generational mentors. Not much online yet, but here are the first stirrings: liminal-learning.com
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