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Wow. Another quarter so quickly over. There’s a lot on everyone’s plates, so work hard, rest well and don’t forget to play a little.
Check this schedule carefully – you have a lot to keep track of and turn in this week. Handouts are available under downloadable files.
| Tuesday, March 9 | Wednesday, March 10 | Wednesday, March 11 |
10:00-1:00 Performative Responses
Peer Group Meetings
Peer Review of self evaluation - make sure to bring multiple TYPED copies | 10:00-12:30
Performative Responses | Retreat to Harmony Hill
Meet at vans in C Lot at 8:30 am!
We will be back on campus by 4:30 - Don't forget your lunch!
DUE:
Final copy of Self Eval - this is your ticket to get on the bus!
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Seminar
Portfolio Review
DUE:
Portfolio
Community Service Reflection
3-credit Project | | |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week (back by popular demand): Carl Sagan’s A Glorious Dawn
AND – Bonus video – Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
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| Monday, March 2 | Wednesday, March 3 | Thursday, March 4 |
All-group Meeting Poster Presentations in COM 110
DUE AT 10:00:
Poster AND Final copy of your research paper | Self-evaluation workshop - this will be different than last quarter, so please bring your portfolio in whatever shape it is in at the moment. | Expressive Arts Lab Open Space
Please see the table below |
Seminar
Remen - read through page 165
DUE: Seminar Ticket -
Please write your answer to the question, "What is the relationship between healing, curing and caring?" Use specific page numbers from the text for diverse examples.
Also,
Write a 1-2 paragraph vignette about a "kitchen table moment" you have experienced.
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Remen - read the rest of the text
Seminar ticket: What are some of the qualities Remen describes that lead to a deeper "embracing of life?" Include page number and quotes.
Experiment with creating a deeper listening presence with whoever you are interacting with between now and Thursday. How can you create a space for other people to drop into a Kitchen Table moment? Write a paragraph about your experience. |
| OPEN SPACE | Thursday, March 4 | |
| 9:30 am -10:50 am | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
| CRC 116 | Prop Manipulation (juggling) - Tanner | Swing Dance (MacKenzie) |
| CRC 117 | Prop Manipulation (juggling) - Tanner | |
| COM 110 | Film: Night of the Living Dead (Aaron) | Open Space |
| COM 210 | Hebrew language and song (Sara and Molly) | Explorations in warm-ups for dance movement. Come facilitate an exercise and share your ideas. Self-convening. |
| COM 307 | Open space | Open Space |
| COM 308 | Screen Printing (Emma) | Art/Music workshop (Chase) |
| COM 320 | Shamanic Practitioner
"Leading with the Heart in the Workpace" (Anna Marie) | Shamanic Practitioner
"Exploration Workshop"
(Anna Marie) |
| COM 323 | Progaff Journaling workshop
(LC) | History and Music
(Michael) |
| Lab II - Third Floor Fishbowl | Film: Skateboarding (Spike Jones) (Chase) | Film: Transformation Through Art (Mukti) |
| Off-campus Activities - meet in front of COM 110 | Hike (Andy)
| Bus tour (Haddy Yosef)
Trash Pick-up (Scott)
Budget cut procession (Tanner) - meet at noon at Red Square |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week: The Dalai Lama: Inner Peace, Happiness, God and Money
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Cynthia says, “Thanks for such a warm reception. It has made things easier.”
The seminar ticket for this Tuesday has a long enough explanation that it is a handout available under downloadable files called “Week 8 seminar ticket”. Email Cynthia if you have any problems with it.
Thursday Seminar Ticket:
1. ” The integral worldview is a self organzing, dynamic system of values that is arising within the internal universe of consciousness and culture ” – McIntosh – pg. 153. How does this statement align with the cosmogenic principle?
2. How does the Procession of the Species as described by Wed. guest Eli Stirling relate to Gardner’s multiple intelligences and your understanding of integral theory?
| Tuesday, Feb. 23 | Wednesday, Feb. 24 | Thursday, Feb. 25 |
All-group meeting Arrive at 10 sharp!
Workshop: Devising a 3-credit proposal
Workshop: Designing Academic Posters
Workshop: Reflections on Community Service and Integral Theory - BRING YOUR DREAM JOURNALS!!
DUE 3-credit proposal timeline (except for Cynthia's group because she confused the deadline - if you have this - bring it!) | Film: Joseph Campbell Part 5
Guest speaker: Eli Sterling, Director-guy of Procession of the Species | Integrated Expressive Arts Lab
Rainbow of Desire work
AND
5 Rhythms workshop
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Seminar McIntosh Chapters 7 and 8 AND pages 1-70 of David Diamond (continuing students have read this already).
DUE: See seminar ticket posted under downloadable files | | Seminar McIntosh - finish the text AND Diamond pages 131-203
Ticket: TBA |
Video pick of the week: In memory of Howard Zinn: On Human Nature and Aggression
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| Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
All-group meeting
Workshop: A story of capitalism
Film: Yellow Apparel
Workshop: Claim Types
You need to bring a copy of your prospectus with you to this workshop.
Peer Group Meeting 2:00-2:30 Share your dream journal integration pages with your peer group and talk about how your dreams are connecting to program materials. | Film: The Corporation | Integrative Expressive Arts Lab |
Seminar Ishmael
Seminar ticket:
Create a one-page dialogue between Ishmael and Paul Hawken, using three different concepts from three different chapters in Blessed Unrest. Make sure you capture the essence of Ishmael's beliefs as Quinn would have portrayed them. This should be 1-2 typed pages. Bring both books to class. | | Seminar Ishmael
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Under construction 1/7/09
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Welcome welcome everyone!
We look forward to seeing all of you at 10am on Tuesday, January 5 in Com 110. Bring your own tea mug as we will be serving tea. You will learn of your seminar leader after lunch that day.
******Please note these changes to our weekly schedule*****
Tuesdays 2:00-2:30 – peer group meetings
Thursday mornings: 9:30-12:30 (instead of 10-1)
| Tuesday, Jan. 5 | Wednesday, Jan. 6 | Thursday, Jan. 7 |
| All-group meeting - bring a tea mug | Open Space - The Great Turning Class | Integrative Expressive Arts Lab
Gahu, Yoga Nidra and Working with Mandalas - Please bring layered clothing as well as a blanket (if you get cold easily) and even an eye pillow if you have one AND also bring your colored pencils. |
Seminar Hawken p. 1-88
Please prepare your seminar ticket as follows:
Type your answer to these questions...
1. What is the thesis of this text?
2. Write a one-two paragraphs describing how some of the ideas of Blessed Unrest are related to current social issues.
3. Bring three, REAL conceptual questions that would be good for use in leading a 5 minute discussion in seminar. Make sure each one cites a specific passage from the text. | | Seminar Hawken p. 89-190
Please prepare your seminar ticket as follows:
Type two additional questions that arose from you after seminar on Tuesday.
DUE: Please check your winter paper assignment for what is due today - clean prospectus for returning students and the beginnings of the prospectus for new students. |
in process- Monday, 12/28
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We are near the end of fall quarter, so here are two weeks in one!
***PLEASE NOTE THE SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR THURSDAY OF WEEK 9!***
Next Sunday Nov. 29, 8pm PST David Diamond will have a live broadcast on the web of his new production, after homelessness, working with the homeless community in Vancouver, BC. If you are interested, it will be live and you can join in at this web site: after homelessness
| Tuesday, Week 9 | Wednesday, Week 9 | Thursday, Week 9 |
10:00-1:00
Community Service in Awakening the Dreamer
AND
the Part II of the film Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
DUE: - your entire prospectus - this includes ALL drafts (with clearly identified peer and tutor reviews of both book review AND the body of the prospectus). Please put the final draft on top and attach all the other drafts in a manageable format (clipped, folder, etc.) | Self-Eval workshop - please bring the following: your portfolio (in whatever form you have it), your colored pencils, pen and paper (of course!)
AND
film - Part III of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Community Service at Left Foot Organics
LEAVE FROM C LOT (OUTSIDE THE COM BLDG) AT 9 AM!! RETURN NOT LATER THAN 1:00. |
Seminar: Paul Loeb - Chapters 1-6 only.
Bring this ticket:
Go to Study Questions where he has a set of study questions for our text. Respond to all of the questions and issues associated with four out of the 6 assigned chapters - chapters 1-6. You choose your chapters. Type your answers.
| | Seminar: Paul Loeb - Chapters 7-12 only.
Bring this ticket:
Go to Study Questions where he has a set of study questions for our text. Respond to all of the questions and issues associated with four out of the 6 assigned chapters - chapters 7-12. You choose your chapters. Type your answers. |
| Tuesday, Week 10 | Wednesday, Week 10 | Thursday, Week 10 |
| 10:00-1:00: Performative Responses | Performative Responses | Expressive Arts Lab Movement and integration |
| Seminar: Portfolio workshop - bring your completely compiled portfolio. | | Seminar: Potluck and World cafe (to be explained in class) |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week (thanks Izzy): Bonobo Apes
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What’s the news this week???
PROSPECTUS! – Get a full draft of this fully typed and bring 3 typed copies for Tuesday morning. Also – book your appointment with your tutor now so that you can have a session before you go home on break.
Please remember these details about annotated bibliographies:
- Refer to this part of the OWL at Purdue for details of how to create your annotations.
- Each of your sources should have a three-paragraph annotation. The first paragraph should be the summary, the second the assessment and the third your reflection (see above referenced web site).
Also – please feel free to use a mind map (look at this video a second time!) as your outline. This can really help you bridge the gap between your thinking and the writing you do later on. Use color, images and let yourself feel the excitement of learning about your topic.
Finally…
DON’T PLAN TO LEAVE TOWN FOR BREAK UNTIL AFTER CLASS ON THURSDAY!
| Tuesday, November 17 | Wednesday, November 18 | Thursday, November 19 |
10-1:00
Workshop/Lecture: Thinking about Systems Theory
AND - Peer review of Prospectus
DUE: 3 typed copies of your entire prospectus | Final performative response! We'll begin with this.
Followed by the film Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Integrative Expressive Arts Lab: Introduction to the 5Rhythms. No special skills needed - you already have all the experience you need!
Wear loose clothing with lots of layers. It starts off cool, gets really hot, then cools down again. |
Seminar: 2:30-4:30
Wheatley - Read the Prologue, Intro and Chs. 1-6 (ca. 112 pages)
Bring your ticket to seminar:
1. Identify at least two different concepts from the reading that are interesting to you (use a page citation) and then reflect in writing on how each concept can be used to help develop or change organizations, or helps you in thinking about how you might be effective as a change agent in the world. Really elaborate your thoughts.
2. Compare Wheatley's ideas on systems to Diamond's systemic paradigm ( Theatre for Living pg. 1-49) in 2 paragraphs. This reading was assigned earlier. | | Seminar: 1:30-3:30 Wheatley (finish the text): Seminar ticket -
1. Create a mind map AND
2. Bring a substantive question(typed) that is tied to some particular passage in the text. This question should be significant enough that you could lead a 5-minute discussion on it in seminar. |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week (100 musicians from around the world show the power of community as the only way to change the world from Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.org) Playing for Change
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There is a lot on your plates this week, so if you have questions about what is due when, please don’t hesitate to ask us.
Your biggest piece of work right now is your book review assignment (which is located under downloadable files if you don’t have one). Between now and class on Tuesday, you should do the following:
1. Write a draft of your book review according to the assignment.
2. Make a copy of this draft and take it to your writing tutor and discuss it. Then, incorporate those comments into a second draft.
3. Take this second draft to your peer group for comments. Make one copy of the draft for each member of the group and read your review aloud. Group members will write comments in the margins and also give you oral feedback. Take these drafts and attach them to your original. Then, incorporating all of this feedback, write a final draft.
It doesn’t matter if you see your writing tutor, or work with your peer group first.
All of these drafts (your originals and the ones with comments from your tutor and peers) are due at 10 am on Tuesday. Along with a poster.
Looking ahead: Tuesday of week 8 you will begin the process of peer reviewing your entire prospectus assignment. So, be prepared to be working on that when your book review assignment is complete. You will also be required to take a draft of this to your tutor during Week 8, so make your appointments!
| Tuesday, Nov. 10 | Wednesday, Nov. 11 | Thursday, Nov. 12 |
10:00-1:00: Book Fair
Please see the assignment.
DUE: A poster which advertises your book AND - the FINAL draft of your book review with all the drafts (see above) nicely stapled or somehow bound together.
Please also bring candy and bubbles :-)
| - Workshop on Annotated Bibliographies. Please bring a hard copy of your prospectus - in whatever form it is in right now.
Also - Finish Student Performances
BRING YOUR TEA CUP WITH YOU AGAIN! | Integrative Expressive Arts Lab
Guest artist: Todd Denny - rap and poetry workshop - a video of his work is Cynthia's video pick of the week (see below). |
2:30-4:30 Seminar on Jung Part III
Seminar ticket: Use your colored pencils to create a mindmap of Part III.
Your mindmap should have:
- a central graphic image illustrating the main idea of the book and
- branches coming out with words, images and pg. numbers of quotes you would like to presence in the seminar discussion.
You can use an 8/5 by 11 piece of paper or a larger piece of paper for your mindmap.
2. Central Idea –
Summarize the central idea of this reading in one paragraph
3. Create 2 conceptual questions this reading raises for you with at least one connection to a previous reading, film or speaker.
Your total ticket:
1. a mindmap 2.the central idea (typed) and 3. two questions (typed) | | 1:30-3:30
Seminar on Jung Part III
Ticket - bring one good typed question for seminar discussion. |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week: Todd Denney’s work with tribal youth and rap/hip-hop
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Welcome to the second half of the quarter! We have lots going on this week. Read carefully and remember:
- Meet with your faculty during your scheduled conference time during week 6. These conferences can’t be made up, so make sure to be on time.
- Read your book for your book review. We’ll send the written assignment over email in the next day or so and will go over it in class next week.
| Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| 10:00-1:00 - No official class (COM110 is open for rehearsal space). You should meet with your performative response groups to work on your performance for Wednesday. Also - make sure to meet with your faculty if you are signed up to do so this morning. | 10:00-12:30 - Student Performative Responses!
BRING A DRINKING MUG!
After your performance, before Thursday, please spend some time reflecting on the type of specific feedback you will give each member of your group on Thursday (use the assignment handout as a guide). | 10:00-1:00 - Integrative Expressive Arts Lab
We will begin with yoga, so make sure to wear clothes that allow you to move, your yoga mat if you have one, and a blanket if you like to stay warm at the end.
Bring your art supplies and scissors (if you have them) for this session. |
2:30-4:30 - Seminar on Jung Part II. For your ticket, please prepare the following -
1. A mindmap:
Watch Tony Buzan’s video describing the process of mindmapping: Maximise the Power of Your Brain
Use your colored pencils to create a mindmap of Part II.
Your mindmap should have:
- a central graphic image illustrating the main idea of the book and
- branches coming out with words, images and pg. numbers of quotes you would like to presence in the seminar discussion.
You can use an 8/5 by 11 piece of paper or a larger piece of paper for your mindmap.
2. Central Idea –
Summarize the central idea of this reading in one paragraph
3. Create 2 conceptual questions this reading raises for you with at least one connection to a previous reading, film or speaker.
Your total ticket:
1. a mindmap 2.the central idea (typed) and 3. two questions (typed)
| | 1:30-3:30 - Jung Part II
Please bring a NEW typed question that arose from Tuesday's seminar. Make sure to include a text citation. |
Cynthia’s video picks of the week:
Black Butterfly Project Part I (thanks Stephanie)
Black Butterfly Project Part II
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Much is happening this week! We have two guest speakers. First, on Tuesday morning, we will meet Luis Rodriguez in the Longhouse. In addition to finishing his text, you might enjoy his poetry which is posted under downloadable files, week 5.
The next morning at 10 am , our program will be sponsoring a speaker on Restorative Justice who has collected some impressive longitudinal and cross -cultural data on this area using a Restorative Justice Paradigm. Our speaker, Paul McCold, is an adjunct faculty at St. Martin University and was founding faculty at the Graduate School of the International Institute for Restorative Practices in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to crime and wrong-doing that seeks to transform conflict into cooperation. Dr. McCold will introduce the paradigm by presenting the definition, postulates, and causal theory of the essential concepts; and then summarize the remarkable research findings that definitively validate the practice as a viable alternative to punishment-based criminal justice.
Also – PLEASE NOTE – we have changed the date the first section of your prospectus is due from Wednesday to Thursday due to a scheduling change with the Writing Center. Please see the timeline below.
| Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
10-noon: Meet in the Longhouse for guest speaker: Luis Rodriguez. Come early!
Bring your seminar ticket (typed) to this presentation:
1. Prepare a question for Luis Rodriguez that draws on a specific passage from his book. You are encouraged to ask your question during the Q & A period, as long as it relates to what has emerged in the morning's talk.
2. What do you think you are learning from this book that relates to our program?
Note: Some of Rodriguez's poems are available under downloadable files - week 5. | Guest speaker: Paul McCold "Restorative Justice Paradigms"
Week 5 check-in with Core Connectors
| Integrative Expressive Arts Lab
Please read the following BEFORE this lab:
Diamond, pgs. 11-43 AND pgs. 86-105
DUE: Your title, topic, question, significance of the question sections of your prospectus along with at LEAST 5 sources formatted according to the APA styleguide. Follow the directions for each section of this in your assignment. You should have gone over your question with your tutor BEFORE you turn this in to your faculty. You need to have your copy of this in your hand for Thursday as we will meet with Sandy from the Writing Center for part of this morning. |
| Seminar: 2:30-4:30 the rest of Hearts and Hands | | Seminar: 2:30-4:30 student articles. You will work with THE SAME person you worked with last week to read and present one of their articles. |
Cynthia’s video pick of the week: A New Dream: The Story of the Pachamama Alliance
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