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Welcome to the Schumacher College newsletter, July 2008
We know many of you are still keen to take advantage of our summer deal, so we have extended this offer until the end of July. Please see below for details. Also here – more details about some of the exceptional teaching in-store on our sustainability and leadership courses in the autumn, experiences from the first year of the Certificate in Education and information about a temporary post at Schumacher College
‘Summer deal’ – 15% off many short courses – Extended until end July
Many of you have taken advantage of the early booking discount on offer and will receive 15% off your normal course fees. Due to its popularity we have decided to extend the discount for a further few days until 31 July 2008. See course pages for more information. Courses include Biomimicry: New Directions in sustainable design; Sustainability and Leadership; and How to Commmunicate Climate Change: The business challenge.
Read more about all short courses.
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Olivier Mythodrama comes to Schumacher College to support you, as leaders of change
Richard Olivier has been using Mythodrama for many years to help individuals with their personal development as leaders in a range of organisations and companies. This autumn he will run a special residential session for Schumacher College participants Sustainability and Leadership: The personal challenge. Subjects covered will include: building social capital and resilience in work communities, and learning the conditions of emergent change. The sessions in this course provide a unique space to combine great stories, theatre practice, psychology and philosophy with organisational development techniques. Richard’s courses are incredibly transformative; and a much needed resource for leaders in sustainability.
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Sustainability and Leadership: Climate Change leader Allan Jones come to Schumacher College
We are delighted that Allan Jones has agreed to teach on our course Sustainability and Leadership: The organisational challenge. Allan is CEO of the London Climate Change Agency. He previously worked for Woking Borough Council, and is certainly a ‘doer’ when it comes to leading on sustainability in organisations and communities having reducing CO2 emissions there by 77.5% from 1990 levels.
Allan’s sessions will look at the strategic challenge of moving energy infrastructure away from a centralised and non-renewable model, so that future energy needs can be derived from wholly renewable energy resources. He sees this as one of the fundamental issues for any organisation seeking to achieve sustainability.
Numbers attending Schumacher College courses are kept discrete, in order to allow for in-depth conversation with experts like Allan. His discussions will draw from his experience in Woking and as the leader of the London Climate Change Agency. Amongst other practical topics relevant to leading on sustainability, he will talk with participants about delivering innovation and overcoming bureaucracy, financial, commercial, regulatory and mind set barriers.
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A new generation of educators in times of change: The Schumacher Certificate in Education
Here at Schumacher College, we are completing the first year of our Certificate in Education. It is clear at this point that this innovative programme has been as successful in supporting the professional and personal development of eleven dynamic individuals as we had hoped. Already they are integrating new ideas and practices into their work as educators for sustainability, and creating a strong peer network for future collaborations. A diverse and international group, they are working in a host of areas in academia, professional training and as independent educators.
Read more about the first year of the Certificate in Education, click here.
Read more about the Certificate in Education for 2009.
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Applications sought for Marketing & Publicity Co-ordinator for Schumacher College
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This is a key role at the College with responsibility for implementing the College marketing strategy, including for the prestigious short course and Masters programmes, expanding and enhancing the awareness of the College courses and stakeholder liaison, website and database management.
If you have broad experience in a demanding marketing environment, possess excellent IT, administration and communications skills, and are passionate about sustainability and education, we would love to hear from you.
For more information from the Dartington Hall Trust Website please click here.
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Supporting Resurgence Slow Sunday
Schumacher College is supporting Resurgence magazine in the first in a series of Slow Sundays. On July 27th 2008, friends, alumni and local residents are being invited to bake their own bread, for themselves, their friends and their neighbours – a simple action that symbolises a respect for the planet, a desire for change and a move towards a more sustainable future.
Schumacher College continues a programme of transformative education around food and bread during its November course Slow Food, Real Food: Championing sustainable food. This course will deal with one of the most pressing issues of our time – how to make food production, distribution and consumption more sustainable. This will be discussed alongside practical engagement in the making and enjoying of good quality, local, homemade food for which Schumacher College is so well known.
Schumacher College was recently featured in the Sustainable Business Magazine environmental training guide:…Due to its enviable reputation, Schumacher has considerable clout when it comes to sourcing course contributors, so expect some well-known names from a variety of fields (including business)…. “Even after being here for just five days people think ‘hummm, maybe I can do something different’ It’s like we give you a different pair of glasses to look at the world,” says college director Karen Blincoe… It’s no hollow boast (said Erik Jaques writing for Sustainable Business). |
Programme 2008 and 2009
Walking with the Earth Pilgrim
September 15 – 19, 2008 | Satish Kumar
Earth Jurisprudence: Making the law work for nature
September 22 – 26, 2008 | Cormac Cullinan, Mellese Damtie, Ng’ang’a Thiong’o, Ian Mason, Elizabeth Rivers
Sustainability and Leadership: The personal challenge
October 14 – 17, 2008| Richard Olivier
Biomimicry: New directions in sustainable design
October 20 – 24, 2008 | Michael Pawlyn, Julian Vincent, Neil Thomas, Graham Dodd | Andy Middleton
Sustainability and Leadership: The organisational challenge
October 27 – 31, 2008 | Allan Jones, Gaynor Coley, Nick Robins, Paul Dickinson
Roots of Learning: Educating the whole person
November 3 – 7, 2008 | Jack Miller
Real Food, Slow Food: Championing sustainable food
November 17 – 21, 2008 | Andrew Whitley, Carlo Petrini
Ethical Pioneers: an interactive masterclass for the new entrepreneur
November 24 – December 5, 2008 | Including Chris Nichols, Karen Blincoe, Galahad JD Clark
Exploring Science, Matter and Consciousness
January 5 – 23, 2009 | David Peat, Amit Goswami, Peter Fenwick, Chris Clarke
Embedding Holistic Economics for a global community
January 26 – February 13, 2009 | Manfred Max-Neef, Margrit Kennedy, Colin Hines, Wolfgang Sachs
Roots of Learning: Strategies for creative social change
February 23 – 27, 2009 | Kate Davies
Systems Thinking in Practice
March 9 – 27, 2009 | Gunter Pauli, Don Beck, Rob Hopkins, John Wood
How to Communicate Climate Change: The business challenge
April 2 – 6, 2009 | Ben Stimson, Andy Hobsbawm, Naresh Ramchandani, Antony Turner
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