This intensive unit is offered exclusivly to the first year Oases Master Program students in transformative studies.
The unit reconsiders us as part of nature with all dimensions of our being. It challenges our separation from nature as a false consiousness.
We share in the hope for humanity as a constructive partner with the rest of the earth's ecology. We explore the interconnections between person, community, senses of place and local ecosystems.
We will explore the meaning of ecology as we enter into the ecology of a particular place shaped as it is by its wildness, its humen built and its human perceived. The fusion of Social and Sacred Ecology joins the humen-centredness of the social, the transcendence of the sacred, with the interconnectedness of the web of life.
Participants are encouraged to participate in critical analysis and personal reflection. It will be personally and interpersonally challenging.
They are asked to come with an openness to look within and without; in place and with a community of fellow explorers.
Facilitators:
Dr Peter Cock is co-founder and member of the Moora Moora cooperative community, is on the Council of the Sustainable Living Foundation and teaches in the Oases Graduate Program for Integral and Transformative Learning. He taught Sociology and Environmental Science at Monash University for 30 years in Eco-psychology, Eco-policy and Action, and Conserver Society.
Sandra Cock is a psychologist and former teacher with extensive professional experience in counselling and training in individual, couple, group and organisational settings.
Where: Moora Moora Cooperative Community
When: to be advised Thursday PM to Sunday PM
Fee: The cost is included in the course fee the Master Program except
for food which is catered for by particpants.
Registration Through Oases Graduate School, Hawthorn
For further information contact:
Peter at
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or 0422 426 144
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