Coffee Hours with Mike Cole are intended to create inter-generational discussions focused on central concepts of a critical, bio/social, cultural/historical approach to human development. Each 1.5 hour session is dedicated to a central text that the author is invited to discuss with me and those in attendance. Attendees are asked to contribute a question provoked by the text a few days before the session. The questions are both a means of facilitating and promoting inclusive and mutually educational discourse and the author’s task in gauging the audience’s concerns.