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We live in disruptive times full of chaos and uncertainty. Transformation is required in many fields. This course begins with the reality of radical disruption in everyday life. Disruptive experiences can happen to individuals, groups, an entire society, or even the whole world. They knock the ground from under your feet. The question then, is: “Who are you when nothing is as it was before? Who can you become, and who can help?” Participants are invited not to deny or run away from our vulnerability, but to embrace it: fragility and precariousness, however difficult they often can be, are sources of deep insights. Disruptive experiences bring us into borderlands, also called liminal spaces, full of risks, anxiety, and suffering, but also full of new perspectives and creativity. In order to find our way through liminal spaces we need communities with a heart. In this course a model of eight interconnected cornerstones of communities with a heart is presented. These eight interrelated cornerstones will determine the order of the course days, and will be combined with other analytical, dialogical and wisdom tools like the Critical Reflexivity Model, the Capability Approach, Mindfulness and the Wisdom of Rituals. The educational content of the course will be a mix of home assignments, lectures, an excursion and group work, and body work and meditation.
Learning objectives
- Expose yourself to disruptive experiences on personal, societal and global level – by sharing your own stories and listening to the stories of others
- Understand the embodied importance of silence with regard to disruptive experiences
- Articulate how sharing disruptive experiences in our lives and/or society can become a source of protection, connection and inspiration
- Use a variety of dialogical methods as a toolkit for dreams of transformation
- Through creative approaches translate your personal value system and ambitions into a professional and organisational/institutional context
- Understand the neuroscience of disruptive and creative thinking
- Making intellectual analyses of, and apply value creation into community building, by the model of the 8 interconnected cornerstones of communities with a heart
- Apply critical reflexivity thinking to each of the 8 interconnected cornerstones
- Articulate how your experience and ideas will be translated to communities with a heart in your own context
