HAUMEA ESSENTIAL ECOLITERACY ONLINE
THE UNIQUE AND POPULAR COURSE FOR ALL ART FORMS. 5 OCT.- 30 Nov., 2021
is delivered as a supportive, SELF-PACED in-depth online course over a 7-week period, where you can learn from home in your own time.
Guided by ecological artist Cathy Fitzgerald, Phd (Ireland) and philosopher Nikos Patedakis, Phd (California) you will join a small cohort (max. 20 participants) from around the world for collective, inspiring learning.
Ecoliteracy is a big topic! It encompasses ecologically expansive understanding and integrated ecosocial values, not currently prioritised in the creative sector, but which are needed to help modern society shift toward sustainable and equitable living. Informed creativity has immense social power to inspire others to embrace a more beautiful, just and sustainable culture.
Position your work at the forefront of this crucial, urgent cultural shift.
The benefits of joining the Haumea Essential Ecoliteracy course:
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:
Duration: 7 weeks. Time Commitment: 2-6 hours/week.
When the course starts on TUES. 5 Oct. 2021 you will gain access to the WELCOME ORIENTATION MODULE.
Each week a new module is released.
The Heart of Haumea Courses is joining in with others for collective learning in Weekly TUESDAY Online Group ZOOM Meetings. You are, however, also very welcome to take this course, without joining the weekly live meetings.
PLEASE NOTE -THERE IS A MIDCOURSE BREAK AFTER MODULE 3 IS RELEASED.
Course opens on Tues. 5 Oct. You will be sent an email on how to logon to the course and access the Orientation module.
Tues. 12 Oct: ORIENTATION The first 'Getting to you know you' Live Group Zoom Meeting is at 7 pm Irish / UK time ON ZOOM.
Wed. 13 Oct: MODULE 1 RELEASED UNDERSTANDING 'THE BIG PICTURE' - WHY EVERYTHING HAS TO CHANGE AND WHY CREATIVITY CAN HELP
Tues 19. Oct: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 1
Wed. 20 OctSept: MODULE 2 RELEASED PSYCHOSOCIAL & PHYSICAL SUPPORTS & PRACTICES (LEARN WAYS TO DEAL WITH OVERWHELM, AVOID BURNOUT AND MAINTAIN YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR)
Tues 26. Oct: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 2
Wed. 27 Oct. – MODULE 3 RELEASED: NAVIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE WITH EASE, UNDERSTAND ANTHROPOCENE & SYMBIOCENE FRAMEWORKS, and WHY & HOW TO EMPLOY THE UN SDGs
Tues. 2 Nov: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 3
Wed 3 Nov.– MODULE 4 RELEASED EXPANDED EARTH ETHICS – DEVELOP MORAL REASONING TO GUIDE YOUR WORK; UNDERSTAND THE EARTH CHARTER, & DEVELOPING ECOCIDE LAW
Tues 9. Nov: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 4
Wed. 10 Nov. – MODULE 5 RELEASED EXPLORING HOW OTHERS’ DEVELOP EXPANDED ECOLOGICAL ART PRACTISES
Tues 16 Nov: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 5
Wed. 17 Nov.– 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
Tues 23 Nov: ZOOM MEETING FOR MODULE 6.
Tues 30 Nov. 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.
TUESDAYS (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 WEDNESDAY, 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 SLACK group that respects your data. A weekly email will 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 Online course tuition fees are much lower than what you would have to pay 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 benefit 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 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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