The People-Based Learning portal is the result of a multi-year conversation campaign involving hundreds of participants in small, youth-led gatherings of four to seven people.

All conversations were recorded, transcribed, and coded by multiple reviewers, then analyzed to identify recurring patterns and themes. This qualitative research process surfaced five core insights about how learning happens with and through other people.

The portal weaves those insights together with selected personal stories from participants, centering lived experience alongside rigorous analysis. Together, they offer a research-backed, human-centered framework for understanding learning as a social and relational process.

The result is both a body of evidence and a living archive, one that honors individual voices while revealing the collective patterns that shaped People-Based Learning.