FOUNDATION COURSE 16+
Foundation Course Outline
KNOWLEDGE CONTENT ANCHORS
Cultural Diversity
What can we learn from the diversity of human cultures about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?
Sustainable Development Goals
How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior to address local, regional and global sustainability issues?
Governing the Commons
What can we learn from communities around the world managing shared resources ?
Ancient Ancestors
What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?
Cross-Species Comparisons
What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability?
Our Mind
What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?
Cooperation Games
What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?
Child Development
What can we learn from children
about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?
SKILLS
Prosocial ARC process
Prosocial ARC Process, a method for helping any group, anywhere in the world, work better together through considering:
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Awareness of our internal thoughts
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The quality of our Relationships
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The Cultural agreements we create
Open Mind & Status Games
OpenMind builds scalable, evidence-based tools to equip people with the habits of heart and mind to engage in more constructive and empathetic dialogue across differing backgrounds, beliefs, and values.
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
Positive psychology & resiliency
The scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive...such as the capacity for love and work, courage, compassion, resilience, creativity, curiosity, integrity, self-knowledge, moderation, self-control, and wisdom.
Awareness & Connection
A human-centered design learning experience with an opportunity to raise awareness of and build connections to eachother as a multidemographic global family, and our local natural environment as life giving interconnected systems.
Post Normal Reconciliation, Philosophies, & Worldviews
Using science to reframe the reconciliation agenda. Converging wisdom from Indigenous peoples' philosophic traditions with Earth system, environmental, quantum and ecological sciences provides new opportunities for considering our human role and place in the living systems that give us life, context and meaning.
Regenerative Development & The Doughnut Economy
Clearly identify and understand the main challenges humanity is facing and the underlying causes. Apply holistic approaches to understand system complexity and identify solutions.
The Earth’s resources are not infinite, and living within social and planetary boundaries is of key concern to each of us.
MULTI DEMOGRAPHIC GLOBAL DISCUSSIONS
Students choose online global and diverse demographic cohorts to discuss experiences, knowledge and skills
FAMILY EXPERIENCE - COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE - STORYTELLING - THE COMMONS - OUT GROUP INTERACTION
MY GIFTS TO MY COMMUNITIES - INTRINSIC MOTIVATION. AUTONOMY AND FREEDOM - RELATEDNESS AND MEANING
COMPTETENCE AND SELF WORTH - WELL BEING AND HEALTH - PREPARING FOR GRADUAL & EXTREME CHANGE
SYSTEMIC ALTERNATIVES - ECOCENTRIC AND PROSOCIAL UNITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
STRUCTURES
ORGANIZATION
A networked improvement community (NIC) is a group of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds united to address high-leverage practical problems.
PROGRAM
The regenerative education community programs follow an universal Indigenous spatial referenced model which accomodates and responds to local needs and goals.
PEDAGOGY
In our design of lessons and units, we aim to integrate a range of best practices in pedagogy. Specific teaching and learning methods can be woven into the design of a lesson and unit to build on and support these knowledge processes.