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Introductory Courses

Introduction to Learning Skills
Code e-0200

Introduction to Human Ecology
Code e-0300

This course in redevelopment
Code e-0400

Introduction to Communicating
Code e-0500

Introduction to Ways of Thinking
Code e-0600

Introduction to Systems
Code e-0700

Introduction to InnerWork
Code e-0800

Introduction toPhylogeny(Human Origins)
Code e-0900

Introduction to Active Retirement
Code e-1000

Personal Empowerment through Social Action. Code e-1100

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Non Introductory

Seven Keys to Relationship
(e- 5000) and

Archetypes
(e-5100)

 "We are shaken by secret shudders
  and dark forebodings but we know
no way out and very few human
persons indeed draw the conclusion
that this time the issue is the
long-since forgotten soul of man."  C.G.Jung

0200 Introduction to Learning

Each time we learn a new skill we actually go through four learning steps in one order or another. Because we develop the step we find easiest it becomes a habit, and it is easy to ignore (or marginalise) the other steps. So we are not even aware that there are other steps available. For example: a man is very theoretical and very good at theory too! However he struggles to complete actual tasks, he can't apply the theory in action. Or, a woman who learns by doing often finds frustration because when it doesn't work she can't find other options to help understand what is required for remedial action.
In this course you will discover your preferred (habitual) learning style and once that is clear you will be introduced to the steps you marginalise. Because these are not habitual (or rather you habitually ignore them) they will be awkward at first. Very soon however you will discover that there are many many tasks you can now compete far more effectively (and enjoyably) because you have acquired the discipline to check out the other necessary learning steps. This course is very effective!

0300 Introduction to Human Ecology

Human Ecology deals with the relationships between people and also between people and their environment. It is not so much a body of fact which in other subjects would make up the content; it is rather a way of being based on central principles. Science as we know it has not solved the challenges of humanity and thus human ecology has arisen out of necessity.

Some of the principles are:

1. Understanding the basis of knowledge. 2.Critique of this basis and 3. Forming a new model
4. Ethics and Aesthetics
5. Your place in Ecology (natural environment)
6. Learning to think: Systemically/ Critically/Imaginatively/Scientifically/Ecologically
7. Understanding the basis of Explanation
8. Reflection (learning to formally introduce Reflection into your personal Praxis) Praxis is the merging of theory and practice.

As the course progresses you will also undertake assignments, generally on an issue which you view as important to your local community/environment.

0400 Introduction to Heuristics (This course is currently not available)

In any process of learning there exists a formal curriculum and an informal one. Usually, we only attend to the first one because it is written down and it is what is advertised. However the second is very important because it deals with the changes happening inside yourself while you are learning. Therefore in this course the content is not as important as what is going on in your life. It provides a marvelous way to get in touch with your inner processes which may lead to clarity, healing, progress.

0500 Introduction to Communication

During the last quarter of the twentieth century societies at different times came to realise that what is happening is a revolution in communications. To date most interpret this as learning to use new technology so that communication may occur via the www or email or fax or discrete digital signaling,. That is a small part of the Communications Revolution.
Who communicates? Human beings do. Not faxes or email programs or a series of zeros and ones. These mechanical operations are carrying out human instructions, that's all. The real Revolution is in inter-personal and group communication. That is communication between people. Virtually every major problem in the world just now is a result of lack of, or poor communication.
Therefore this four week introduction leads participants through processes of becoming an effective communicator. By this it is meant that individuals can properly attend the other, reflect on what they have heard and thus respond meaningfully without reaction. There are ways of reforming our understanding of our personal communication which allow an individual to express all that (s)he needs to. And we start this course with the question Who Talks Who Listens? This session alone will change the way many individuals approach inter-personal dialogue.

0600 Introduction to Ways of Thinking

First the Greek Tyrants, Athens, Rome and then the Church and later Western Science dogmatically taught people that there is One Authority and this is the One Way to Think. Of course this prejudice is nonsense however it has sunk deeply into our collective unconscious and so authorities bludgeon citizens with so-called 'Scientific Evidence'. There are many valid ways of thinking and the trick is to employ the appropriate one each occasion. Inter alia, we will investigate: Critical Thinking, Imaginative Thinking, Systems Thinking, Feminist Thinking, Ecological Thinking....And we will come to understand the two ways of knowing, one based on authority and one based on openness and reflection. With these tools your thinking will improve and more importantly you will start applying more appropriate forms and thereby gain greater self-expression and efficacy in your private life and in your working environment.

0070 Introduction the Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking is what arises when wholes rather than parts are considered. We consider the origins in the Cybernetics movement and the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, the founding president of the I.S.S.S. (International Society for the Systems Sciences).
Systems Thinking provides a useful, trans-disciplinary means to express contemporary problems of complexity, and a means to work together in order to overcome difficulties in both physical and organisational systems.
This course is highly recommended for researchers and those trying to find a new approach to problems resistant to current or known methods of diagnosis and treatment. It has been used for instance in Policy Development, Departmental restructurings, Educational Syllabus Development, Research and by organisations at the forefront of complexity, by designers of factory systems and by those who manage large public events..

0080 Introduction to Inner Work

As of January 2006 this course is only available to those who can have telephone or physical contact with the course provider who is situated in SE Queensland.

This course is primarily aimed at professionals who must deal with clients in a confrontational setting. Inner Work means meditation in action. One writer described this work as " learning under gunpoint" ! An apt analogy for those who have a few moments only to gather their inner resources in order to resolve a situation with a confrontational client.
It would also be suitable for those who find they are over reactive and cannot control themselves calmly when under strong challenge. Inner Work ultimately leads a practitioner to be like a mirror, reflecting accurately without embellishment or provocation.
We commence this course with a reflection upon an English translation of the Heart Sutra. This great invocation holds the seeds of all we need and in the following weeks we draw out individual skills which permit us to engage the irrational, the emotionally charged and the confrontational without loosing our own centre.

0900 Introduction to Phylogeny (Human Origins)

The Phylogenic record shows us all that has occurred along the evolutionary trail of homo sapiens, us. This is all the physical evidence of eg bones. This course deals with the Question: " where do we biologically come from?" and so we trace the development of hominids from the Bi-Pedal Primate to ourselves today. During this course participants will come to realise what some call " the biology of love".. In other words there are some shocks here. For example, violence towards one another and towards species is a new phenomenon in our evolution. We were not always violent and indeed we may not be inherently violent at all. The evidence we use is that available to any researcher, there is nothing hidden here. Also many misunderstandings will be rectified; for instance, the Darwinian notion that our finger- thumb opposition came from Homo Habilis, tool-wielding man. Unfortunately for Darwin tools date back only 200,000 years yet our ancestors have carried, uniquely among primates, the finger-thumb opposition for a lot longer than this.

1000 Introduction to Active Retirement

Individuals today may be faced with a myriad of demands upon achieving retirement. First there are investment decisions to be made and every investment Advisor seems to tell a different story. After the major task of securing one's retirement benefits, annual decisions arise as the Market goes up and down. Suddenly there is no work to go to and the retiree is faced with the task of rebuilding a new social, physical , mental and spiritual framework which is supportive and has depth. Even those eager to rush to hobbies, those who seem happy pottering away in the shed or garden, are also in a position to achieve enormous psychological development.
the $50 you invest in this course will pay for itself again and again as you engage your new freedom to bring your life consciously to fruition.

1100 Personal Empowerment through Social Action.

ASHE has received many requests for guidance on taking local social action. This course is the result of these requests. YOU choose what it is you want to work on in your community/local area. When you select this course, which will support your personal empowerment, you will receive total guidance not only on how to commence but also ongoing support through the process of you enacting YOUR project. You will be required to send progress reports so that ASHE can assess your progress and guide the next step. If you have even wanted to make a difference then this course IS for you. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Note: This course is not limited to the one month time frame of other introductories.

Non Introductory

ARCHETYPES Code: e-2500

Not an introductory unit. Course length is 8 weeks. Tuition: $100.00

It is many years now since Carl Gustav Jung created the neologism "archetype" referring to the common, powerful, images that govern the inner life of all human beings.

To date this enormous discovery has remained in the realm of the occult or 'new age'.

This course introduces the actuality of archetypal influence in ordinary everyday life. First we come to recognise the main archetypes then we progress to identifying those we can recognise in our past.

Finally we come to where we are now. How well do you understand, accept, fight against, remain unconscious of, the powerful psychological drives that lead you to actions you don't comprehend?
Welcome to the realm of the mytho-poetic, eidetic imagery, and source of all human motivation and behaviour.


 

Seven Keys Of Relationship Code: e-2000

Not an introductory unit. Course length is 8 weeks Tuition: $100.00

At the height of Celtic Culture (La Teine Period around 500BC) there emerges two very similar movements. In (modern Spain) a group of Celts described the keys of relationship. Not so far away, at the other end of the Mediterranean another group started the Essene Brotherhood. It is very hard to separate the order of emergence however Okham, another Celt, would suggest the simplest answer, from the Celts (Whose lore went out with tin mining cargo ships from Southern England (Cornwall).

The major difference is that the Brotherhood is exactly that, men only! (A quick aside: C 400BC a tribe of Hebrews got together and re-wrote the old stories. Also they removed Ishta and replaced Her with Jaweh! "Big Dude with Beard in Sky. You don't want to get on the wrong side of this One, He's angry and punishing".

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