http://schumachercollege.org.uk/ http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:19:21 CET March 5-23, 2012 | Jenny Mackewn, Toni Spencer, Jean-Claude Audergon, Tim “Mac” Macartney, Bob Johansen, Barefoot Partnership, Nowhere and Encounters | The emerging field of ecological facilitation and leadership looks to healthy, dynamic ecosystems for guidance in approaching change. This highly experiential and practical course from some of the leading voices in Ecological Facilitation will help you develop your theoretical and practical skills in group process, leadership and change

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/ecological-facilitation-a-gritty-and-creative-approach-to-leadership-2 Monday, 05 March 2012 3:39pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/ecological-facilitation-a-gritty-and-creative-approach-to-leadership-2 A new online certificate-level programme from 14th March 2012 to Wednesday 4th July 2012 | This pilot course brings together elements of the College’s highly regarded postgraduate courses in Holistic Science and Economics for Transition and will allow you to explore these issues within a deeply transformative educational experience.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/certificate-in-holistic-science-and-economics-for-transition Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:09pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/certificate-in-holistic-science-and-economics-for-transition Two week intensive within a six month online study group: March to September 2012 (Residential dates: Sunday 25 March to 5 April, 2012 at Schumacher College) | This holistic learning journey for developing an ecoliterate worldview is specifically created to develop individual ecological awareness and practice that participants can apply to their work and personal lives. | Contributors to the residential: Satish Kumar, Stephan Harding, Philip Franses, Julie Richardson, Jon Rae, Jonathan Dawson, Gustavo Esteva (via videolink),David Orr (via videolink),Martin Crawford, Terry Irwin (via videolink), Bethan Stagg, Rob Hopkins, Hal Gimore,Toni Spencer, Mark Burton, and Emily Ryan (Facilitator).

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/cultivating-an-ecoliterate-worldview-person-place-and-practice-2 Sunday, 25 March 2012 10:49am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/cultivating-an-ecoliterate-worldview-person-place-and-practice-2 Friday – April 13-20, 2012 | Colin Tudge, Martin Crawford, Peter Harper, Bethan Stagg and Rebecca Laughton | This course will explore food production in an ecological context. Examining the vital role that ‘human scale’ horticulture and botanical diversity can play, in intensifying production without increasing environmental degradation, climate change or the consumption of finite resource

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/the-future-of-food-and-farming-creating-a-resilient-system Friday, 13 April 2012 12:49pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/the-future-of-food-and-farming-creating-a-resilient-system Friday – April 20-22, 2012 | Chloe Goodchild and Malcolm Lewis | In these uncertain and challenging times, organisations and individuals are increasingly seeking the means to access higher forms of consciousness to enable them to function better, and this pioneering course provides the opportunity to explore ways that direct engagement with the human voice can introduce participants to tools and skills for authentic expression and true sustainability.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/finding-our-collective-voice-consciousness-and-sound-leadership Friday, 20 April 2012 7:44pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/finding-our-collective-voice-consciousness-and-sound-leadership April 30 – May 4, 2012 | Dougald Hine and Vinay Gupta | As financial and ecological systems collapse around us, people can feel paralysed by despair or fear. Collapsonomics is the study of what happens when systems we grew up taking for granted let us down. Drawing on the inspiration of thinkers such as Ivan Illich, Gandhi and Buckminster Fuller, the course will examine the early 21st century through a number of different lenses and propose strategies for a radically different future. .

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/collapsonomics-making-a-good-job-of-living-through-difficult-times Monday, 30 April 2012 5:20pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/collapsonomics-making-a-good-job-of-living-through-difficult-times May 7-11, 2012 | Guy Claxton| An education system that is designed to leave around half of all young people with a sense of failure is not fit for purpose. The 21st century is full of possibility and fraught with risk. If young people are to be happy, they need to be helped to know what it is they want to be great at, and how to go about getting there.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/what-s-the-point-of-school-cultivating-minds-for-turbulent-times Monday, 07 May 2012 10:50am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/what-s-the-point-of-school-cultivating-minds-for-turbulent-times May 14-25, 2012 | Princess Irene van Lippe Biesterfeld, Satish Kumar, Jonathan Horwitz, Stephan Harding| Humans are part of nature, but few people in western society really feel this connection, with the result that the natural world is exploited and abused in ways that would seem incomprehensible to indigenous people who see the earth as their life-giver. This course offers you the opportunity to connect deeply with the natural world using a variety of traditional and transformational practices with some of the worlds preeminent voices.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/soul-in-nature-experiencing-the-connection Monday, 14 May 2012 5:53pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/soul-in-nature-experiencing-the-connection May 21-25, 2012 | John Perkins | We need to understand where we went wrong in order to work out how to do things better. In this course, John Perkins, an insider in the global financial system, describes how predatory capitalism has expanded across the globe, and where the potential is to transform our destructive economic system.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/hoodwinked-what-wrecked-our-economy-and-how-to-fix-it Monday, 21 May 2012 2:50pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/hoodwinked-what-wrecked-our-economy-and-how-to-fix-it Sunday, May 27 – June 1, 2012 | David Key & Mary-Jayne Rust | The concept of the ecological Self is central to Ecopsychology and challenges the idea that humans are separate from, and superior to, the rest of nature. Through a series of carefully facilitated outdoor experiences and small group work, this course will help participants experience the ecological Self and ask what it really means to “reconnect with nature”.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/ecopsychology-experiencing-the-ecological-self-2 Sunday, 27 May 2012 12:51pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/ecopsychology-experiencing-the-ecological-self-2 May 28 – June 1, 2012 | Margaret Wheatley | Our current challenge—as individuals, citizens and leaders, isn’t the rapid pace of change. It’s uncertainty—not knowing what’s next, what works, or where things are heading. Margaret Wheatley returns to Schumacher College to work with those who are trying to do good work and persevere in the face of unending challenges and uncertainty.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/fearlessness-in-the-face-of-uncertainty Monday, 28 May 2012 1:00am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/fearlessness-in-the-face-of-uncertainty June 11-15, 2012 | Eve Mitleton-Kelly | Successful organisations no longer operate in a “top-down” fashion, and benefit from empowering their employees to work collaboratively. Yet many organisations are stuck in hierarchical ways of operating and lack the tools to develop alternatives. This course provides a sound theoretical and practical grounding for all those interested in generating a more collaborative workplace.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/complexity-and-collaboration-applying-complexity-theory-to-organisational-transformation Monday, 11 June 2012 2:37pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/complexity-and-collaboration-applying-complexity-theory-to-organisational-transformation 18-22 June 2012 | Jonathan Balcombe (videolink), Marc Bekoff (videolink), Richard Ryder, Rachel Hevesi, Satish Kumar & others TBC | This course brings together world renowned experts in animal behaviour, welfare and philosophy to reflect on what we can learn from other species and how it can guide our own individual and social behaviour.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/animals-and-us Monday, 18 June 2012 2:45pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/animals-and-us June 18-22, 2012| Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose | This course starts from the insight that our bodies are not separate from the earth, but are inherently connected to the natural world: its minerals, air and water are our bones, breath and blood. By engaging with a combination of experiential anatomy and time spent in nature, participants will clarify their perception and deepen their relationship to place.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/body-and-earth Monday, 18 June 2012 6:56pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/body-and-earth June 25-29, 2012 | Hossein Elahi Ghomshei, Ian Skelly, Satish Kumar and others TBC | The concept of Harmony provides a way of looking at all areas of human activity, from philosophy, ethics and aesthetics, to science, land use, architecture and health care. In this course, esteemed teachers from very different cultural backgrounds will reflect on what harmony means to them and to modern society.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/harmony Monday, 25 June 2012 2:35pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/harmony July 2-7, 2012 | Satish Kumar, Peter Owen Jones & Stephan Harding | Our popular Earth Pilgrim course returns to our summer 2012 programme. Join Satish to share his thoughts on the importance of bringing soul into the heart of everything we do, and how this can enhance your creativity and work for sustainability and peace.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/earth-pilgrim-2012 Monday, 02 July 2012 10:24am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/earth-pilgrim-2012 July 9-13, 2012 | Gary Reiss, Mark O’Connell and Marina O’Connell | Process Oriented Ecology is based on the belief that sustainable solutions may be found to various human and planetary problems through bringing awareness to different levels: the personal, the interpersonal, and the co-creative relationship in nature.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/process-oriented-ecology-finding-sustainability-in-ourselves-our-communities-and-with-the-earth Monday, 09 July 2012 5:18pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/process-oriented-ecology-finding-sustainability-in-ourselves-our-communities-and-with-the-earth 17-21, September 2012 | Andrew Harvey | In this special course, Andrew will share his vision, the inspiration he gained from the great poet Rumi, and the principles and practices he has developed that can help people to connect with their deepest sources of spiritual inspiration and become purposeful and effective sacred activists.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/love-in-action-a-guide-to-sacred-activism Monday, 17 September 2012 1:24pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/love-in-action-a-guide-to-sacred-activism Friday, 21st – 23 September, 2012 | Tim Malnick | Far from needing to run away to a monastery or a cave, some spiritual traditions emphasise the value and potential of turning fully towards the chaos, challenge and emotionality of our work as a basis for self discovery and for benefitting others and the world at large.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/what-about-monday-morning-awareness-wisdom-and-compassion-in-the-workplace-2 Friday, 21 September 2012 11:27am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/what-about-monday-morning-awareness-wisdom-and-compassion-in-the-workplace-2