Integrative Conversations (2010)
First year (Feb 26th, 27th, 28th; April 26th; June 27th; July 31st ; Oct 10th; Dec 3rd, 4th, 5th)
The first year of the post graduate program (certificate) comprises Integrative Conversations which runs for 10days throughout the year sometimes with the whole community ie. participants in other years of the program and facilitators, sometimes with the first year cohort; together with four entry units, to the aesthetic, the social, the ecological and the spiritual.
Integrative Conversations Tricia Hiley & Chris Lloyd
The ways we think about, language and perceive the world (consciously and unconsciously) and the world views that emerge from these have important consequences for our actions, values and ways of being in the world. As individuals and as members of society, organizations, families, etc we are continually making decisions about how we live, what we learn and how we lead.
In our Integrative Conversations we focus our attention on becoming increasingly mindful of our everyday choices and practice, considering them as holding the potential for integration and transformation. Many writers and activists argue that the crises (ecological, spiritual, social, political) challenging us today require an engagement with transformed ways of understanding the reality of which we are a part. In a dynamic, experiential environment, you will begin to explore the assumptions within which you learn and upon which you make choices and take action. You will experience learning as ‘a way of being’, exploring the edges of your knowledge and experiencing what you think and feel whilst in a place ‘beyond’ your knowing. You will begin to explore the ontology, epistemology and creativity of the “in between” and the edge / borderland / crossroads and to explore the role, language and “space” of the “in between”.
Drawing on the application of learning theory, chaos and complexity theory and theories of ‘structures of consciousness’, we explore the emerging possibilities of / for consciousness and the storying and languaging of the world that emerges. You will participate in conversations about how this way of thinking about the world may transform our actions, experiences and ways of being in the world. We will consciously and practically develop our own ‘integrative and transformative practice’, together.
Second Year (Feb 26th, 27th, 28th; April 26th; June 27th; July 31st ; Oct 10th; Dec 3rd, 4th, 5th)
The second year of the program comprises the Integrative Conversation that continues throughout the year on 10 days, some of which are shared with the whole community and some of which are for the second year cohort, together with four units selected from those below. This constitutes the diploma.
Integrative Conversations Jenni Goricanec & Rob Hoskins
The intention of the Second Year Integrative Conversations - partly as a result of the conversations and reflections - is that all participants will have developed a more-or-less firm proposal for their project by the end of the year. This could be thought of as an emerging and firming sense of what the participants' project will be or become.
Participants practise together and converse about different techniques that act not only on individuals but also with groups and how these might be ‘used’ in on-going integrative and transformative practice.
Further in this year the leadership of the group work shifts from ‘more of the facilitators’ to ‘more of the participants’ as the phase of unstructured work of a project more or less on their own (with Integrative Conversations as support to learning) is entered in third year.
Third and Fourth Years Jacques Boulet, Kristin Diemer and others (Feb 26th, 27th, 28th; April 26th; June 27th; July 31st ; Oct 10th; Dec 3rd, 4th, 5th)
These two years focus on the project and the Integrative Conversation, together with individual co-visioning. The integrative conversation is the central feature of participants’ engagement with the program. Over these two years an additional two units selected from those listed for 2nd year participants are completed. The Master’s is conferred at the successful completion of these two years