Community Engagement: Developing Reciprocal Community Partnerships

Overview

Explore a comprehensive 4-hour course focused on building meaningful, reciprocal partnerships between educational institutions and their surrounding communities. Cultivate personal and professional growth through three core dimensions: developing your inner meditator for reflection and peace, embracing your creative artist for joy and expression, and strengthening your warrior spirit for resilience and peaceful action. Apply mindfulness tools and resources in both personal life and teaching practice to foster greater compassion, connection, understanding, and actionable outcomes. Navigate complexity and uncertainty using futures literacy, systems thinking, and deep ecology principles to understand the interconnected nature of self, community, and planet for diverse learning opportunities. Practice sustainable and holistic approaches across nature, economics, media, technology, society, and wellbeing through shared tools and integrated skill development. Master the design of student-centered, empathy-to-impact learning experiences that cultivate holistic global citizenship skills and dispositions in learners. Engage with a dynamic learning community through interactive activities, online forums, video reflections, live seminars, and portfolio development that documents your transformation journey and practical application of community engagement principles.

Syllabus

Be Engaged: Cultivate personal and professional learning connected to our inner meditator (reflection, insight, peace), artist (creativity, joy, expression), and warrior (resilience, courage, peaceful action).
Live and Learn Mindfully: In our lives and teaching, apply tools, resources, and skills that cultivate opportunities for greater compassion, connection, understanding, and action.
Embrace Change and Interbeing: Be brave and engage with complexity and uncertainty through futures literacy, systems thinking, and deep ecology to understand how the interdependent nature of ourselves, our community, and our planet can lead to diverse and meaningful learning and action.
Demonstrate Sustainable and Inner-Development: Practice with and integrate a range of shared tools, resources and skills for thinking and acting sustainably and holistically for nature, economics, media and technology, society, and wellbeing.
Interpret and Create: Understand and design student-centered, Empathy to Impact learning experiences that bring out skills and dispositions of holistic global citizenship in learners.
Interact and Evolve: Share your personal and professional transformation with our learning community through activities, online forums, video reflections, live interactive seminars, and a portfolio or story that captures your journey and application of learning.