The St. Paisius Institute Pedagogy can be described by a few concepts, organized as nodes.

Node 1 - An Orthodox Epistemology

• Some important files on the topic of Epistemology
  • Orthodox Epistemology by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, from “Orthodox Psychotherapy”
  • Homily 52 by St. Isaac the Syrian
  • The Anthropology and Epistemology of Ivan Kireevsky by Ivan Kontsevich (From the out of print expanded version of "The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit in Ancient Russia)
  • The Theory of Knowledge of St. Isaac the Syrian by St. Justin Popovic.

Node 2 - The Pedagogy of St. Gregory Palamas

See the video and related material here:

Seeking Wisdom: Orthodox Education and the Right Relationship of Human and Divine Wisdom According to St. Gregory Palamas - by Fr. Matthew Penny Ph.D

Node 3 - The Classical Liberal Arts

• The Trivium
  • Grammar
  • Logic
  • Rhetoric
• The Quadrivium
  • Arithmetic (numbers)
  • Geometry (numbers in space)
  • Music (numbers in time)
  • Astronomy (numbers in space and time)
• The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
• Orthodox Christianity and Higher_Education by Fr. John Peck

Node 4 - The Humanities

• An outline of the Humanities

Node 5 - The Classical Liberal Arts in Symbolic Systems

• Symbolic Systems study, based on the program at Stanford

Node 6 - The Orthodox Phronema

• An explanation of Phronema

Node 7 - The Eighth Liberal Art - Noetic Ascesis

• Noetic Symbolic Systems