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Past Short Courses at Schumacher
Below you will find a list of past short courses at Schumacher College. The College has been offering excellent learning since 1991. However, this list has been compiled since the inception of the new web site and so only contains details of courses starting from the begining of the 2007/08 course programme. Details of courses taking place before this date should be added in due course.
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Archived Short Courses
Sustainability and Leadership: The Personal Challenge
Starts: Tuesday October 14, 2008
October 14 – 17, 2008| Richard Olivier | Those on this participatory three day Mythodrama workshop will benefit from a unique form of experiential learning that combines theatre practice, psychology and philosophy with organisational development. read more…
Earth Jurisprudence: Making the law work for nature
Starts: Monday September 22, 2008
September 22 – 26, 2008 | Cormac Cullinan, Mellese Damtie, Ng’ang’a Thiong’o, Ian Mason | The dominant western industrial legal system is founded on promoting or protecting human interests. There is an expanding debate and practice around assigning rights to the planet and all species. What are the characteristics of a governance system established to protect the rights of all members of a particular ecological community? read more…
Walking With the Earth Pilgrim
Starts: Monday September 15, 2008
September 15-19, 2008 | With Satish Kumar, on Dartmoor, participants will visit landscapes pictured in the documentary – woods, rivers, tors, stone circles, and the open moor – walking together, talking and sitting quietly. There will also be talks from resident College staff about Gaia theory, deep ecology and sustainability.
Sacred Activism
Starts: Monday July 14, 2008
One or Two Week Course | New teacher line-up – Starhawk to teach | Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, Starhawk. Participants will discuss visions of the world and how to deal with global crisis through Sacred Activism, sustainable wellbeing, environmental ethics and religion.read more…
Certificate in Education: Modules
Starts: Tuesday July 8, 2008
Application of Earth Jurisprudence
Starts: Friday June 20, 2008
Topics within the study of Earth Jurisprudence
Starts: Friday June 20, 2008
Earth Jurisprudence: Aligning law and society with nature
Starts: Friday June 20, 2008
Soul of Science
Starts: Monday June 16, 2008
One or Two Week Course | Arthur Zajonc, Rupert Sheldrake | The practice of modern science has for centuries been divorced from values other than that of “objectivity” and this has done much to alienate us from our direct, intuitive experience of nature. This approach is now being challenged. read more…
Creating Nature: Art in the landscape
Starts: Monday May 26, 2008
One or Two Week Course (Various start dates) | Nature in all its beauty and complexity has been an integral part of art from the first images and artefacts ever created by humans. Recent years have seen a resurgence of its importance for artists, not just as inspiration but as the actual medium within which they work. read more…
Reconnecting with Nature as Healer
Starts: Monday May 5, 2008
One or Two Week Course (Various start dates) | The industrialised world is rapidly realising the importance of nature as a provider of essential but limited resources including water, soil, and air. But its value for human wellbeing in the broader sense is only beginning to be fully understood. read more…
Inspired Leadership: Seeing organisations as living systems
Starts: Monday April 21, 2008
One Week Course | Today, organisations of all types struggle with issues such as leadership, motivation, accountability, and organisational and cultural change. Much money and dedicated staff time have been applied to these issues. However, these areas of development continue to be problematic. read more…
Tackling Climate Change at Home
Starts: Monday April 7, 2008
One Week Course | Bookshops and magazines are full of tips on how to live in a more environmentally friendly way and reduce your carbon footprint. This course will take this further, helping participants engage with these practical in-depth issues through understanding and applying solutions to their everyday lives. read more…
Development: What Next?
Starts: Monday March 3, 2008
One, Two or Three Week Course (Various start dates) | The world has had over half a century of “development” and now has more people living in poverty, more inequality and more ecosystem destruction than it did before the process began. What went wrong? read more…
Roots of Learning: Educating for community and sustainability
Starts: Monday February 25, 2008
One Week Course | Educational institutions are starting to interact more with the communities they exist in, moving away from their “ivory tower” image. This process can be beneficial for all involved, bringing fresh perspectives into academia and new energy and expertise into the community. read more…
Designing for Sustainability: Systems, ethics and beauty
Starts: Monday February 4, 2008
One, Two or Three Week Course (Various start dates) | Design has the potential to create solutions to many of the global problems confronting us in the 21st century. It relates not just to products but to social systems, so environmental, ethical and social concerns need to be placed at the heart of the design process. read more…
Can the Earth Survive Capitalism? Exploring sustainable economic models
Starts: Monday January 7, 2008
One or Two Week Course (Various start dates) | It has become increasingly apparent that capitalism is environmentally and socially unsustainable. However, the world has yet to find a convincing large-scale alternative economic system. read more…
Roots of Learning: Approaches to holistic & transformative learning
Starts: Monday November 5, 2007
One Week Course | We are living in a period of history characterised by radical change. Some habitual life patterns that we have inherited from the past have now become dysfunctional. We are being driven, by necessity, to devise new ways of living in order to survive in a manner that gives us a sustainable quality of life. read more…
Food for Thought: Transforming the food culture of universities
Starts: Monday October 29, 2007
One Week Course | Universities can play a major role in changing students’ and the wider society’s relationship with food. Large institutions account for about 40% of all food bought, and thus a move towards local procurement can have dramatic effects on the regional food economy. read more…
Business responses to climate change
Starts: Thursday October 18, 2007
Four Day Course | Some parts of the business world have actively responded to the challenges of climate change, often in advance of government policy. read more…
Developing low-carbon food policies
Starts: Thursday October 11, 2007
Reducing carbon emissions from food production is a global problem. Nine per-cent of UK carbon emissions come from agriculture and another nine per-cent from the processing and distribution of food. read more…
Engaging with the politics of climate change
Starts: Thursday October 4, 2007
With the subject constantly in the media and discussed in the corridors of power, future generations may say that this is the year when the world finally woke up to climate change. read more…
Towards Urban Sustainability: Cities for the future
Starts: Monday September 10, 2007
Dongtan in China is being designed to be as near to 100% carbon-neutral as possible. The teachers on this course are all closely involved with the project. Using the example of Dongtan, this course will help participants explore a range of technologies and strategies for application in new developments and housing projects. read more…
Earth and the Sacred: The Personal and the Planetary
Starts: Sunday July 1, 2007
Much of today’s environmental thinking is based upon a predominantly scientific analysis of complex planetary problems. This course will explore the sacred, religious and spiritual dimensions of environmentalism to develop a vision where the care of the earth plays a central role. read more…
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