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Short Courses at Schumacher
Courses range from 4 days across a long weekend to 3 weeks. The College aims to provide courses to suit a range of interests and availability. Information in the following pages will give you an introduction to the courses and help you make the decision about which course or courses are best for you.
The course programme allows exploration of sustainability through a range of complex areas of transdisciplinary study ranging from business issues, art and design to food policies and climate change. The College promotes a unified residential education encouraging participants to acquire new knowledge, learn through doing and engage with this process through all aspects of life. Exceptional and expert teachers lead classroom sessions.
You can read our Short Course Programmes at your leisure – download and print these PDF documents:
2008/09 course programme (September 2008 – April 2009) (PDF) NEW
2007/08 course programme (PDF)
Short Courses
Sacred Activism
Starts: Monday July 14, 2008
One or Two Week Course | New teacher line-up – Starhawk to teach | Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, Starhawk. Participants will discuss visions of the world and how to deal with global crisis through Sacred Activism, sustainable wellbeing, environmental ethics and religion.read more…
Walking With the Earth Pilgrim
Starts: Monday September 15, 2008
September 15-19, 2008 | With Satish Kumar, on Dartmoor, participants will visit landscapes pictured in the documentary – woods, rivers, tors, stone circles, and the open moor – walking together, talking and sitting quietly. There will also be talks from resident College staff about Gaia theory, deep ecology and sustainability.
Earth Jurisprudence: Making the law work for nature
Starts: Monday September 22, 2008
September 22 – 26, 2008 | Cormac Cullinan, Mellese Damtie, Ng’ang’a Thiong’o, Ian Mason | The dominant western industrial legal system is founded on promoting or protecting human interests. There is an expanding debate and practice around assigning rights to the planet and all species. What are the characteristics of a governance system established to protect the rights of all members of a particular ecological community? read more…
Sustainability and Leadership: The Personal Challenge
Starts: Tuesday October 14, 2008
October 14 – 17, 2008| Richard Olivier | Those on this participatory three day Mythodrama workshop will benefit from a unique form of experiential learning that combines theatre practice, psychology and philosophy with organisational development. read more…
Biomimicry: New directions in sustainable design
Starts: Monday October 20, 2008
October 20 – 24, 2008 | Michael Pawlyn, Julian Vincent, Neil Thomas, Graham Dodd, Andy Middleton | Proponents of biomimicry contend that many of the solutions that we will need during the sustainability revolution are to be found in nature: super-efficient structures, high strength bio-degradable composites, self-cleaning surfaces, zero-waste systems and low-energy ways of creating fresh water. read more…
Sustainability and Leadership: The Organisational Challenge
Starts: Monday October 27, 2008
October 27 – 31, 2008 | Allan Jones, Gaynor Coley, Nick Robins, Paul Dickinson | What models are there of organisations making serious progress towards sustainability and what can be learned from them? read more…
Roots of Learning: Educating the whole person
Starts: Monday November 3, 2008
November 3 – 7, 2008 | Jack Miller | More and more people are focusing on holistic principles of education as a way of expanding educational experience and attention to the whole person. This applies to both students and teachers. The challenge is to be creative and responsive to the individuality of students, and work with them to develop a curriculum that is relevant to their needs. read more…
Real Food, Slow Food: Championing sustainable food
Starts: Monday November 17, 2008
November 17 – 21, 2008 | Andrew Whitley, Carlo Petrini | The Slow Food movement has gone from campaigning for quality food, to demanding food that as well as tasting good, is produced in environmentally and socially responsible ways. read more…
Ethical Pioneers: an interactive masterclass for the new entrepreneur
Starts: Monday November 24, 2008
Two Week Course | Including Chris Nichols, Karen Blincoe, Galahad JD Clark | At this time of great change, how do we create organisations and businesses that engage with sustainability and ethics? This is a unique opportunity to explore these questions and develop your business plan or strategy. read more…
Exploring Science, Matter and Consciousness
Starts: Monday January 5, 2009
A one, two or three week course | David Peat, Amit Goswami, Peter Fenwick, Chris Clarke | The nature of consciousness has fascinated philosophers and scientists for centuries. Today, different fields of science are generating discoveries and insights which lead practitioners to expand existing theories of what consciousness is and what it can do. read more…
Embedding Holistic Economics: For a global community
Starts: Monday January 26, 2009
A one, two or three week course | Manfred Max-Neef, Margrit Kennedy, Colin Hines, Wolfgang Sachs | Problems with the global economy are presented in the mainstream media as those that can be managed within existing systems. There is a need for a transformation of economics if human society is to survive and prosper. read more…
Roots of Learning: Strategies for creative social change
Starts: Monday February 23, 2009
February 23 – 27, 2009 | Kate Davies| Education can play a critical role in helping to transform our society. A key question for educators is: How can we prepare learners to lead the changes that are necessary to achieve social and ecological sustainability? read more…
Systems Thinking in Practice
Starts: Monday March 9, 2009
A one, two or three week course | Gunter Pauli, Don Beck, Rob Hopkins, John Wood | A systemic approach is vital if we are to tackle successfully the complex problems facing society and the environment today, from community responses to climate change and social enterprise, to conflict resolution and social development on a global scale. read more…
How to Communicate Climate Change: The business challenge
Starts: Thursday April 2, 2009
April 2 – 6, 2009 | Ben Stimson, Andy Hobsbawm, Naresh Ramchandani, Antony Turner| Many corporations taking pro-active action on climate change are seeing benefits. More businesses need clear communication strategies in this area to make the most of this opportunity. read more…
Walking With the Earth Pilgrim
Starts: Monday June 15, 2009
June 15 – 19, 2009 | With Satish Kumar, on Dartmoor, participants will visit landscapes pictured in the documentary – woods, rivers, tors, stone circles, and the open moor – walking together, talking and sitting quietly. There will also be talks from resident College staff about Gaia theory, deep ecology and sustainability.
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