Next year, 2011, is the 20th anniversary of the opening of Schumacher College. It is also the centenary of the birth of E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, whose work was an inspiration in the founding of the College. There is much to celebrate and we look forward to announcing details of our anniversary programme over the coming months. We are ever mindful of the major economic and environmental issues facing our world and remain encouraged by our friends and supporters that now, more than ever, our College can play a leadership role in addressing these issues.
As you will see from the article below we are very excited to announce our new Masters in sustainable economics. This programme has grown out of a central theme of our work over the last twenty years – the consequences of unsustainable models of economic development. We are also designing a new Masters programme building upon our Schumacher Certificate in Education for Sustainability. Both Masters will open for recruitment later this year for those wanting to enrol in 2011.
As part of our expansion plans, we want to offer a wider range of courses with more options to participate either on site or remotely through open learning access. We plan, for example, to expand our postgraduate courses to complement our MSc in Holistic Science and short course programme. We will also be developing more courses offering practical skills in areas such as food production and farming, and on renewable energy and eco-housing. This month we are appointing our first Open Learning Manager, who will identify new ways for our students to access teaching and learning support who are either unable to or do not wish to travel. This project will run alongside our emerging Schumacher Worldwide programme, which we look forward to telling you a lot more about in the coming months.
Many of you have enjoyed coming to the Old Postern since 1991. This has been a wonderful and deeply loved home for Schumacher College. However, it is both in need of costly renovation and too small to allow us to expand and offer a range of new programmes. So in July 2011, we are planning to say goodbye to the Old Postern.
Many of our programmes will remain at Dartington, where we are currently located. In August 2011, we will move to another building on the Dartington estate. We shall also be finding a second new home close by and will announce details of this very soon. We are already working on how to retain the essence of the Schumacher experience in these two new locations. We know that we can’t replace the Old Postern, but we welcome the support of past and future participants in making our new homes as wonderful and welcoming as ever.
We greatly value the support of our thousands of alumni, as well as those who will sign up for our courses in years to come. We plan to update you regularly through the newsletter and website to keep you informed of our plans.
Please visit our website to read about our new programmes and Frequently Asked Questions. If you would like more information, please contact us at twenty.years@schumachercollege.org.uk While we are a small team, we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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Supporting a new generation of leaders and activists creating an economy fit for the future
For nearly 20 years, Schumacher College has been pioneering radical new thinking in economics attracting participants and inspirational teachers from around the globe. Now we are working with like-minded people and organisations to develop a Masters programme in economics to inspire, skill and support a new generation of leaders and activists in creating an economy fit for the challenges of the 21st century. The programme should open for application later this year to start in 2011…. Read more…
For more details about our newly announced Masters in Economics
Teachers: Tim Jackson, Ed Mayo, Julie Richardson
Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of our economic activity – and there is no evidence to suggest that we can – we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth.
As our course last year, Growth and Consequence: Rethinking our economic future, was oversubscribed we have decided to continue on this theme, linking the consequences of personal consumer choice with the larger issue of economy and growth.
For first announcement about our Masters in Economics, 2011
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For true sustainability, we need to try to design systems in full awareness of our dynamic participation with all the other forces within those systems. This is how living systems operate, as complex, dynamic wholes which are alive, resilient, self-organizing, and developing or evolving.
If you were asked to define yourself, you could reel off a list of factual statements descriptive of the way you look: height, weight, hair, eye and skin colour, clothing, etc… This would be valid and necessary information, but not sufficient, and would not serve to define you as an individual. Such a definition would be applicable to many other people too. So what is it that defines you? Or put another way, how would you describe who you are?… This analogy serves to illustrate the physical and relational system connections that need to be considered: through what is obviously apparent on the surface, and the invisible connections between parts of the system which play vital roles within the system’s dynamics…. Read more…
Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney has been working as a people and organisation development professional since 1984 before which he enjoyed an eclectic and spontaneous career path that included drama and theatre skills, restaurants, mine rescue, horticulture, and various social enterprises. He is the founder of Embercombe, a published author, a trustee with two other charities, and an associate with Leaders’ Quest. Over a period of twenty years Mac has been mentored and coached by Native American metis ‘Medicine’ people to learn the cultural and spiritual teachings that once informed the practice of his own British indigenous culture. The values, principles, and wisdom of this tradition inform and guide all aspects of his work. Mac’s book ‘Finding Earth, Finding Soul – the invisible path to authentic leadership’ speaks to the necessity for each of us to gather our courage and step out of the shadows and become ‘the leaders we have been waiting for’.
Download a flyer about Tracking the Past, Meeting the Future: Rediscovering our indigenous roots
Read more about The Be-wildered Leader: An Open Evening with Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney, May 2010
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I must confess that Avatar was not a film that I particularly wanted to see. It is, after all, a Hollywood blockbuster that consumed huge amounts of money and resources in its making and which has no doubt produced huge profits for a handful of people who are already far too wealthy for their own good and for the good of us all…
…To my amazement, the Pandorans, despite their ‘CG’ blue skins, long tails and feline Nubian good looks, movingly portrayed something of the wonderful gentleness and sensitivity of our own, real life, indigenous people. The speech was right, the elegant movements and physical agility were right, the dignity was right, but above all, their deep connection and love of their mother planet was utterly and totally spot-on. They called her Eiwa (I think) – we call her Gaia, but to me they are one and the same…. Read more…
Stephan Harding is teaching on Gaia and the Evolution of Consciousness in June
Leadership in Times of Chaos: Exploring Old and New Wisdom ONE PLACE LEFT
Margaret Wheatley
May 10 – 14, 2010
Creativity, Perception and the Modern Mind: Leonardo and the Search for Holism FINAL PLACES
Fritjof Capra, Peter Adams with guest lecturer: Iain McGilchrist
May 17 – 28, 2010
Children and Nature: Rediscovering a sense of wonder
Richard Louv, Kathy Louv, Jan van Boeckel
31 May – 4 June, 2010
Tracking the Past, Meeting the Future: Rediscovering our indigenous roots
Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney
June 7 – 11, 2010
Pilgrimage and Discovery: Further explorations with the Earth Pilgrim
Satish Kumar, Chris Lloyd and others
11 – 18 June, 2010
Gaia and the Evolution of Consciousness
Sean Kelly, Rupert Sheldrake and Stephan Harding
June 21 – July 2, 2010
Complex Systems, Stories of Place and Regenerative Design
Bill Reed, Ben Haggard, Bill Rees, Michael Pawlyn
July 5 – 16, 2010
Gaia’s Garden: Summer in the Schumacher grounds NEW COURSE
Dyane Osborne, Martin Crawford, Rhamis Kent, Nick Gooderham
July 18 – 22, 2010
Awakening our Relationship with Food
Edward Espe Brown, Carolyn Steel
September 13 – 17, 2010
Wild Nature, Human Nature: Deep sustainability through Ecotherapy
Mary-Jayne Rust, Dave Key
September 18 – 24, 2010
Creativity and Social Innovation NEW COURSE
Kate Davies, Jonathan Robinson
20 – 24 September, 2010
Whose Land is it Anyway? Empowerment and community of place
Alastair McIntosh, Iain MacKinnnon, Sulemana Abudulai
27 September – 1 October, 2010
To Buy or Not to Buy? Consumption, Growth and Prosperity
Tim Jackson, Ed Mayo, Julie Richardson
October 4 – 8, 2010
Wild Plants as Food and Medicine
Erin Smith, Simon Mills
11 – 15 October 2010
Leadership, Education and the Closed Loop Economy NEW COURSE
Ellen MacArthur, Ken Webster
November 8 – 12, 2010
Ecopsychology: Exploring the Roots to Change NEW COURSE
Mary-Jayne Rust and Dave Key
March 7th – 25th, 2011
Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney: The Be-wildered Leader May 12
Fritjof Capra: Learning from Leonardo May 19
Peter Adams: The Engaged Artist May 26
Helena Norberg Hodge: Economics of Happiness June 16
Sean Kelly: Five Principles of Integral Ecology June 23
Rupert Sheldrake: Mind and Cosmos June 30
Process and pilgrimage is a forum for intellectual and practical inquiry, where exploring another way of being in the world is significant in creating renewal. Earthlinks brings Schumacher College’s holistic debate for a society in transition onto the road in Italy.
‘Seeing through paradox, believing through difference’, Officine Al Sole, Assisi, July 22nd- 25th, is a dialogue into pathway for peace featuring philosopher Henri Bortoft, historian Ilan Pappe, and Schumacher College’s Philip Franses (http://www.earthlinksall.com/paradox/seeing.pdf).
‘Science, Sense, Consensus’ July 18th-20th hosted by Aboca, contrasts a paradigm of medicine based on a cold science, with the sense-based evidence of health, where consensus gives validation. By invitation, contributions of original ideas welcome. (http://www.earthlinksall.com/paradox/science.pdf)
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