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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
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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
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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 Seven Keys provide a complete means to not only investigate
and reform one's relational life but also to uncover repressed or
shadow aspects of one's own life. It provides a beautiful journey
of personal growth.
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