HAUMEA ESSENTIAL ECOLITERACY ONLINE
THE UNIQUE AND POPULAR SELF-PACED COURSE FOR ALL ART FORMS
For Creative and Cultural Professionals
NEXT COURSE AUTUMN 2022, MEETING WEEKLY
Led by ecological (ecosocial) artist Dr. Cathy Fitzgerald (Ireland) along with ecophilosopher Dr. Nikos Patedakis (California)
A supportive, SELF-PACED in-depth online course over a 7-week period, where you can learn from home in your own time. You will join a small cohort (max. 20 participants) from around the world for collective, inspiring learning.
This course is for creative practitioners and cultural professionals who are seeking a comprehensive foundation in ecological knowledge for their lives, their creative practice, their cultural work, teaching or curating.
As prioritised in UNESCO's 2021 aim for lifelong, lifewide learning for a sustainable and just world, Haumea courses offer transformative learning, to empower those working in any creative field:
Visual arts, music, poetry and literature, film, community art, social art practice, theatre, dance/bodyworkers, curators, art educators and administrators and particularly cultural programmers and cultural policy writers.
Haumea courses best suit mid-career creative workers and cultural professionals who are looking to bring a deeper understanding of ecoliteracy into their lives, creativity and work experienced creative practitioners, art educators, community artists, those with degree and postgraduate art qualifications - we have had doctoral level arts practitioners who have benefitted from this course please see the Haumea course testimonial page to gauge others' opinions of this course.
PLEASE NOTE: this course is NOT for experienced ecological art practitioners who will already be familiar with introductory ecoliteracy course material. This course is also not a course about making an environmental-themed artwork, NOR is it a course that reviews others' ecoart work in depth. Instead, the primary focus is to offer you accessible knowledge and resources to enable you to confidently frame and communicate your creative work in a ecological context that is relevant to your situation and place.
Duration: 7 weeks. Time Commitment: 2-6 hours/week.
When the course starts on DATE TBC. 2022 you will gain access to the WELCOME ORIENTATION MODULE.
Each week a new module is released.
The Heart of Haumea Ecoversity Courses is joining in with others for collective learning in Weekly X Online Group ZOOM Meetings. You are, however, also very welcome to take this course, without joining the weekly live meetings.
Course opens on DATES TBC. You will be sent an email on how to logon to the course and access the Orientation module.
DATE: ORIENTATION The first 'Getting to you know you' Live Group Zoom Meeting is at 7 pm Irish / UK time ON ZOOM.
DATE: MODULE 1 RELEASED UNDERSTANDING 'THE BIG PICTURE' - WHY EVERYTHING HAS TO CHANGE AND WHY CREATIVITY CAN HELP
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 1
DATE: MODULE 2 RELEASED PSYCHOSOCIAL & PHYSICAL SUPPORTS & PRACTICES (LEARN WAYS TO DEAL WITH OVERWHELM, AVOID BURNOUT AND MAINTAIN YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR)
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 2
DATE. – MODULE 3 RELEASED: NAVIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE WITH EASE, UNDERSTAND ANTHROPOCENE & SYMBIOCENE FRAMEWORKS, and WHY & HOW TO EMPLOY THE UN SDGs
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 3
DATE.– MODULE 4 RELEASED EXPANDED EARTH ETHICS – DEVELOP MORAL REASONING TO GUIDE YOUR WORK; UNDERSTAND THE EARTH CHARTER, & DEVELOPING ECOCIDE LAW
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 4
DATE. – MODULE 5 RELEASED EXPLORING HOW OTHERS’ DEVELOP EXPANDED ECOLOGICAL ART PRACTISES
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 5
DATE.– MODULE 6 RELEASED BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER. APPLYING YOUR ECOLITERACY LEARNING TO TELL YOUR STORY
Invitation to optional end-of-course final assignment to apply learning to your work
DATE: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 6.
DATE. FINAL GROUP MEETING - WEEK 7
A TIME TO SHARE WORK, REFLECT AND SAY FAREWELL
answers to your questions below
2-6 hours per week. A total of 7 weeks of content, connecting and sharing. It is a self-paced course – you can dive deep or skim the surface and still find great benefit.
EVERY X (7 PM IRISH/UK TIME) are when the course instructors host the live group learning sessions. You will get so much more out of the course by joining us for the weekly Live Group Meetings—that is when the learning will really come alive, and you will get a chance to meet new friends and colleagues who can expand the ecology of mind, bringing mutual insight and inspiration.
We highly recommend setting aside a specific time each week, after new material becomes available each X, to go through the weekly module lesson.
The course material is also available to access for TWO months after the course ends.
You will be notified each week by email when next week's module lesson is available.
You will have a week to view videos, read and listen to other resources and time to complete short and simple exercises. That means there is plenty of time to do your homework and to prepare yourself for the Live Group Meetings a week later!
The course material is also available to access for TWO months after the course ends.
An Internet connection, and a computer with a camera and audio to join the online (Zoom) meetings and to view the course video material. It is not advised to use a mobile phone to take this course.
Also, your presence and commitment. You will gain more if you participate more. The group meetings, where we can listen and hear how others interpret the learnings, are the special magic sauce for appreciating the value of ecoliteracy. We tend to develop an ecology of mind among participants as we move through the weeks.
Please note, 'The Essential Ecoliteracy' course can be taken without joining the weekly live Zoom meetings but the experience is somewhat reduced.
Each weekly module contains videos, reading resources, practices and occasional, optional written exercises.
The weekly LIVE Group meeting will be done over Zoom.
A supplementary private Soundcloud playlist complements each week's module for learning on the go.
Topic sharing will happen in a private ONLINE group that respects your data. A weekly email will be sent to keep you up to speed.
At the end of the course, you can submit a short piece of writing that incorporates some of the course ideas– either an artist's statement, ideas in process, creative writing etc., and receive written feedback from the course instructors.
Because we want you to be completely happy with your decision, we will let you test-drive and evaluate the Haumea Essential Ecoliteracy course for 14 days. Enroll today.
If the course doesn’t suit, let us know before the 14 days are up and we'll return 100% of your money back—no questions asked (although because this is a unique course, we'd really love feedback).
Our Haumea ECOVERSITY course tuition fees are much lower than what you would have to pay at a traditional educational institute—if you could find such courses elsewhere. Our students have found this material to be both rare and valuable.
As with any good educational experience, you will get tremendous benefits from our expertise.
Education is not a matter of information exchange. From that more limited perspective, our courses contain a great deal of information that would require a lot of time and many headaches for you to gather alone. But, more than that, we offer an experience—not only our experience of working with these ways of knowing, being, living, loving, and creating, but also our experience at fostering insight and inspiration.
You will find our courses an empowering investment in yourself and your creative work.
Check the time of the Live Group Meeting in your region– see worldtimebuddy.com.
Please check to make sure the Live Group Meeting time will work for you, before you book!
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