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FOUNDATION COURSE 16+

Foundation Course Outline

KNOWLEDGE CONTENT ANCHORS

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Cultural Diversity

What can we learn from the diversity of human cultures about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?

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Sustainable Development Goals 

How can we use insights about human evolution, human behavior to address local, regional and global sustainability issues?

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Governing the Commons

What can we learn from communities around the world managing shared resources ?

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Ancient Ancestors

What can we learn from our ancestors about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?

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Cross-Species Comparisons

What can we learn from our biologically close and distant relatives about human evolution, behavior, and sustainability?

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Our Mind

What can we learn from our own thoughts and intuitions about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?

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Cooperation Games

What can we learn from cooperation games about human evolution, behavior and sustainability?

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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:

  • Awareness of our internal thoughts

  • The quality of our Relationships

  • 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

Globalization concept

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.

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PROGRAM
The regenerative education community programs follow an universal Indigenous spatial referenced model which accomodates and responds to local needs and goals.

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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.

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The Indigneous spatial referenced model describes a cyclical spectrum of phases, energies or archetypes as a way to organize groups of people and promote understanding of the energetics  of life, both between humans themselves and nature in general

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COMPETENCIES

Family, Youth & Teen

courses 

  • High School (17-18) Regeneration Foundations​​

  • Grades 1 & 2 (5-7) Regeneration Foundations

University level courses

& Intern program

  • Facilitator training course

  • Transdisciplinary Research course

  • Leadership Intern program

Ecosocial Education Camps & Communities

  • Workshops & projects for:

    • Foundation students

    • Ecosocial organizations 

    • Indigenous communities

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