Awakening the Dreamer

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.

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

Cynthia’s video pick of the week:  The Dalai Lama:  Inner Peace, Happiness,  God and Money

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?

Video pick of the week: In memory of Howard Zinn: On Human Nature and Aggression

Tuesday – 10 am starting time

Overview of Integral Theory, Preparing your Poster for your Prospectus

pm – Read Integral Consciousness ch. 1-4 and Jim Anest article posted on downloadable files

Ticket: What is your understanding of Integral Consciousness? (2-3 paragraphs) What is an aspect of integral consciousness you would like to have further explained ( cite page numbers)? Write a question for Jim Anest that you will present to him tomorrow in regard to his article?

Write 3

Wed. – Guest – Jim Anest ( Evergreen alumni from early 70s – environmental lawyer)- dialogue on Integral Theory – will speak with us about questions that emerged from seminar

Thursday – Integrative Expressive Arts

Form performance groups for week 10

pm – Seminar – Integral Consciousness Chapter 5-6

Ticket: Create a definition of integral politics and integral spirituality in your own words.  Support each of those definitions with at  one paragraph.  Write one additional paragraph summarizing the main points from Jim Anest.

Integral websites:

www.IntegralInsitute.org

www.IntegralUniversity.org

www.IntegralSpiritualCenter.org

www.IntegralNaked.org

www.IntegralSeminars.org

Tuesday – 9:30 am starting time

workshop on designing 3 credit spring studies

bring 4 copies of 15 page draft of completed prospectus for Peer Review

performance group feedback distributed – performance groups meet during lunch to discuss feedback and take notes, return feedback to faculty in seminar

pm – seminar – Free Play

Ticket:

What are three, detailed ways in which you will integrate concepts from “Free Play” (improvisation, etc.- provide pg. # refernce) into your work as a student and/or creative person? Don’t just name them, describe how you will implement them?

Wed. – Free Play and improvisation/ finish peer reviews

Flash Mob Dance in Belgium : Cultural Improvisation!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k&feature=fvw

Thursday -am – Open Space! offerings to be posted – you are responsible for keeping a 1/2 page record in your portfolio of what you did in each open space, what you learned – schedule is posted under downloadable files week 6- turn in prospectus in 2 peer reviewed drafts by 9:30 am outside of Com 320 before engaging in Open Space

pm – reporting in on Open Space, Free Play seminar continues –

Ticket :

1.  Summarize 3  of the most powerful subsections from the second half of the book  .

2. Discuss what made these ideas powerful for you.

3. Write  a  paragraph  about how you will integrate these concepts in your life.
Friday – Sunday – Lunar New Year Celebration with Chungliang Al Huang – Evergreen Longhouse

bring your Evergreen I.D. and A Number- your name will be on a list by the door to let you in

Friday 6-8 pm, Sat and Sun 10- 4 pm – write one page for your portfolio of how this experience connects with learning goals of Awaken the Dreamer, ( if you are unable to participate, attend another cultural event this quarter and write one page of how this experience connects with learning goals of Awakening the Dreamer)

related websites and interview with Chungliang on youtube:

https://www.livingtao.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungliang_Al_Huang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsQ4pyHmVAE

Tuesday – Student – Faculty Conferences ( a few on Monday) -

Bring self directed learning goal typed, your prospectus and 2 copies of peer revisions and portfolio in process,

Com 110 is available for rehearsal in the morning

Wed – Performative Response! bring your own computer adaptors from Media Loan , inform Terry by Monday noon of any technical needs

Thursday

am – Expressive Arts Lab – organizing for Week 6 open space -bring your ideas of what you would like to offer, what you want to learn

pm – reading -Maturing the American Dream
Carol Pearson
Downloadable from:
http://www.fetzer.org/resources/resource-detail/?resource_id=31

Seminar Ticket:

The article addresses the presence of “edges” and their relation to the integration of different archetypes.  From a Process Psychology point of view, what are some of the “edges” that need to be addressed in order to allow for the integration of different archetypes within 1) the United States as a country, 2) within Evergreen as a

community, and 3) within your own family or social network?

What emerging archetypes might arise from this integration (include pg.
number references in your ticket)?

What is the “shadow side” of the American dream?  How might we integrate
the multiple sides or competing aspects of the American dream?

Tuesday – start at 9:30 am this week

Guest: Dr. Steven Fenwick – Process Oriented Psychology www. processwork.org, bring dream journal for workshop with Dr. Fenwick

Author’s Note – how to write this for your paper

Bring Terry Tempest Williams essay “The Village Watchman”

pm – seminar ticket – Read Jung Section 4

What are some of the ways visual media function as a mediator to deepen the understanding of an idea? How do symbols work to transmit archetypal meaning? ( include page number and references)

Wednesday

Overview of Open Space and developing your Self -Directed Learning Goal

http://www.openspaceworld.org/- read about Open Space and how this is being used globally

Bring four copies of the first draft of your research paper (3-5 pagesin length). Your draft must include:

-a clearly stated thesis that you have researched

- at least TWO of the the three Claims you are developing about your thesis, including logical substantiation of your claim

- An “Author’s Note” that describes what you were intending to accomplish in your draft

Thursday

Expressive arts lab

pm – Read Jung part 5 and Conclusion

1) Make and substantiate  a claim about the symbol creating function of the human psyche.

2) Make and substantiate a claim about the effect  of living in a symbolic environment that humans create.  ( refer to the entire Jung book and any films from the quarter).

Tuesday Am – Cultural Identity Panel with Evergreen Guest, Film “The Way Home” – Shakti Butler, Writing Workshop – Outlines and Organization, Bring working copies of the “claims” you are developing

Seminar Ticket: If “Ishmael” presents a vision of cages we may live in unknowingly, what are some of the cages Obama had to negotiate? ( reference with page number and quotes) pg. vii- 248.

Wednesday -Biography: Writing About People and Places with Rebecca Chamberlain, Film and Dialogue

Thursday - Bring yoga mat for practice first hour, Cop/Corporations in the Head, Beyond the Binary Campus Wide Dialogue faciltated by Norma Alicia Pino and Fletcher Ward

pm – Seminar – How would you describe Obama’s voice as an author and how does this book help us understand the relationship between power and identity? ( include pg.numbers).  How do the film and workshops this week contribute to your understanding of power and identity?

Please read pages 193-202 on Cops in the Head and Corporations in our Head from David Diamond “Theatre for Living” for Thursday ’s expressive arts lab. There are some extra books in the bookstore if you need one ( might be behind the counter- you need to ask for them behind the counter as it is a publish on demand book).

Seminar Ticket for Thursday “Ishmael”:

How do the films “When the Coolie Becomes Cool” ,”The Corporation”  and the book  Ishmael interrelate to deepen your understanding of each of them?  Type a one page response with page number references to support the connections you are describing.

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