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Newsletter: New year 2009 - 2010
Resourcing ourselves for creative change in 2010
We leave you this year with a taste of our exciting course areas for the year to come including: organisational change, leadership and facilitation; refocusing after Copenhagen; and the meeting of Gaia and consciousness.
Wishing you all the very best for the new year. We hope to see you soon.
All at Schumacher College
Ecological Facilitation: A gritty and creative approach to leadership
How do you facilitate groups engaged in the challenges of creating a sustainable future? This course has been developed to enable those who want to resource and inspire themselves for a new kind of leadership in community, business and educational settings. The course will be creative, practical and playful. It will support participants in learning new skills, finding clarity within their diverse roles as facilitators as well as seeing the benefits of uncertainty and emergent change in their practice.
Margaret Wheatley returns to Schumacher College
Leadership in Times of Chaos: Exploring Old and New Wisdom: The systems that created modern crises cannot resolve them and, in fact, are dying. New systems based on new beliefs and practices must be created if we are to find our way through to new and real solutions. Leaders, therefore, are called upon to play two very different roles—hospice workers to the demise of failed systems and midwives to the birth of new ones. Participants will delve deeply into leader identity—what role do I willingly take on? How do I claim and use my power and authority?
Read more information about Leadership in Times of Chaos: Exploring Old and New Wisdom, May 2010
Resourcing Ourselves: Effective working in organisation.
This workshop is open only to alumni and past participants of Schumacher College. They will have the opportunity to share experiences and ideas in developing and reinvigorating their work in the supportive environment of Schumacher College. Resourcing Ourselves: Effective working in organisations will take place across three days in February and will be led by experienced and active facilitators who share a keen interest in exploring and developing new ways of working for profound learning and change in organisational life.
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Think its all over after COP15? Copenhagen Accord not enough?
We could spend time wishing the agreement was stronger and the process different. But now, more than ever, we need to direct our activities to do what our politicians influenced by powerful corporate interests, as well as much domestic public opinion, felt they could not – which is to address shared concerns and find solutions locally as well as internationally. In March, at Schumacher College, we will be running After Copenhagen: Opportunities and challenges to reflect on what happened at COP15 and most importantly how we can move your work in this area forward as a matter of urgency. To read more of this posting from Director Charlie McConnell.
To read more news and comment including from the Schumacher team who attended the Civil Society event running alongside COP15 in Copenhagen, click here to go to the Editorial section
To read more about the course After Copenhagen: Challenges and opportunities, March 2010
Course reminder: What can we as individuals do to combat the dominance of materialism, and how can our economic system be reformed so that it promotes well-being rather than economic growth? Economics and Happiness, a Schumacher College course, February 2010, click here for more details.
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Animate Earth: Exploring our perception, connection and reverence for nature
A DVD of the new film Animate Earth will be available through Green Books in the spring. It is narrated by Dr. Stephan Harding, Resident Ecologist at Schumacher College, on whose book the film is based. The film is directed by an alumnus of the MSc in Holistic Science run at Schumacher College, Clive Ardagh. It includes key interviews with eminent scientists and activists, and uses the power and universal language of nature to sensitively explore and convey a new way of connecting to the Earth on both intellectual and emotional levels. A special preview screening was held at the Danish Academic Institute alongside the United Nations Climate Change Summit in association with Schumacher College events. Further screenings will take place in the new year.
Read more about Animate Earth on DVD
Stephan Harding teaches short course exploring Gaia and the Evolution of Consciousness
How does the fact that we can think of our planet as being a living entity in its own right affect our relationship to the natural world? These issues will be discussed from philosophical, psychological and scientific perspectives, and participants’ understanding will be enhanced with a range of experiential exercises which enable people to reconnect with nature and their own expanded consciousness. Stephan joins Sean Kelly and Rupert Sheldrake to teach this course.
For more information about the course Gaia and the Evolution of Consciousness, July 2010
Reminder: Applications for entry on to the MSc in Holistic Science due February 2010. Click here for more details and to download an application form.
Last chance for you to book for Science Meets Spirit with Elisabet Sahtouris, Arthur Zajonc, Mary Midgley, Bernadette Brady, Ravi Ravindra, January 2010. Click here for more details
Courses open for booking in 2010
Science Meets Spirit: The search for meaning
Elisabet Sahtouris, Arthur Zajonc, Mary Midgley, Bernadette Brady, Ravi Ravindra
4 – 22 January 2010
The Economics of Happiness
Tim Kasser, Dasho Karma Ura, Per Espen Stoknes, Andrew Simms
1 – 19 February 2010
Resourcing Ourselves: Effective working in organisations
Chris Nichols, Chris Seeley
22 – 25 February, 2010
After Copenhagen: Opportunities and challenges
Vandana Shiva, Malini Mehra, Richard Heinberg (via video link), Ian Christie, Clare Short MP, Rob Hopkins, Miriam Kennet, Nigel Topping
1 – 19 March 2010
Ecoliteracy: First principles for radical change
Fritjof Capra (Via video link), Stephan Harding, Philip Franses, Satish Kumar, Anne Miller, Oliver Greenfield and others
22 March – 1 April 2010
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Ecological Facilitation: A gritty and creative approach to leadership
Jenny Mackewn and Toni Spencer
April 6 – 10, 2010
Green Design in Practice: Building an earthship
Kevan Trott
19 – 30 April 2010
Leadership in Times of Chaos: Exploring Old and New Wisdom
Margaret Wheatley
May 10 – 14, 2010
Creativity, Perception and the Modern Mind: Leonardo and the Search for Holism
Fritjof Capra, Peter Adams with guest lecturer: Iain McGilchrist
May 17 – 28, 2010
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Open Evenings are announced for January – February 2010 |
Children and Nature: Rediscovering a sense of wonder
Richard Louv, Kathy Louv, Jan van Boeckel
31 May – 4 June 2010
Gaia and the Evolution of Consciousness
Sean Kelly, Rupert Sheldrake, Stephan Harding
June 21 – July 2, 2010
MSc in Holistic Science
September 2010
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