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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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