LEARNING


LIFELONG LEARNING

Iris Institute offers personalized education and lifelong learning to independent and distance learners. The Institute provides guidance, consultation, courses, and workshops.

Independent learners, and distance learners with internet, and phone or Skype access, can take an Institute course or workshop, or schedule a session at any time.

Institute learning topics can be tailored to individual interests, schedules, and levels of learning. They can be designed to develop a specific skill, or for immersion in a special area of interest for a selected period of time. Certificates of completion for Institute courses are available.


CONSCIOUSNESS PROGRAM

The Institute offers an integral program in Consciousness studies. This twelve-fold program is designed for independent learners interested in a comprehensive approach to Consciousness that can be applied to any area of life from personal development to health, creative arts, organizational transformation, sustainability, education, and social service.

For those interested in equivalency, the completion of six courses accompanied by independent learning comprises Masters degree equivalency, and the completion of eight courses with independent learning in a specialized area comprises doctoral degree equivalency.

For those interested in academic credit, transfer credits for courses based on a five month semester are accepted in the Masters and Doctoral programs at Energy Medicine University where they are offered in two Concentrations:

Consciousness and Nature
Consciousness and the Creative

Energy Medicine University

http://energymedicineuniversity.org


WORKSHOPS

The Institute offers workshops in many of the same subject areas as the Courses of Learning.

WORKSHOPS


CONSCIOUSNESS FOR KIDS

Learning, consultation, services, and courses offered by the institute are adaptable to early childhood education, and independent learners of all ages. Learning can be a creative, integral, nature-based, joyful, and sublime process for children from the time they are toddlers.


COURSES OF LEARNING

CONSCIOUSNESS PROGRAM

The Art and Architecture of Consciousness
Energy, Integrity and Eternity
Connection, Communication, Creation and Communion
The Architecture of Space
Creative & Visionary Processes
Creative Awareness and Self Healing
Relationship, Patterns and Dynamics of Consciousness
Dreams, Death and the Divine
Evolutionary Aesthetics: Education, Imagination and Social Transformation

Chaos, Eros and Nomos
Consciousness, Cosmology and Maps

Sensitivity and the Sublime

ADDITIONAL COURSES

Women, Wisdom and the World
The Subtle Body and the Rainbow Lights
The Subtle Senses
The Infinite and Eternal
Communication and Community
Creativity and Consciousness
Consciousness and Nature


COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This course is an exploration of patterns and dynamics of relationship reflected in the foundational processes of life and the deep structures of consciousness. The course explores the ways these dynamics embody the essence and beauty that simultaneously describe the most basic and most complex of living systems, from fundamental patterns embodied by the natural world to social networks, sacred structures, psyche and soma, the subtle body, and processes of consciousness.


ENERGY, INTEGRITY AND ETERNITY

This course is an exploration of energy, integrity, and eternity. The course explores psychophysiological and phenomenological aspects of energy including physical, emotional, mental, and subtle energy, creative, spatial, and natural energy, and healing and life energy. The course explores sensitive, sustainable, and ethical ways of working with energy.


CONNECTION, COMMUNICATION, CREATION AND COMMUNION

Many of the most pressing interpersonal, community, and international issues revolve around communication, or the lack thereof. This course explores the process of connection, communication, creation, and communion: internal and external, verbal and nonverbal, interpersonal and international, subtle and intuitive, local and nonlocal. Course explorations include psychological and social networks, global dynamics, subtle and natural systems, and communication processes including Bohmian dialogue, Nonviolent Communication, wisdom councils, Self Reflective Dialogue, and self-inquiry.


THE ARCHITECTURE OF SPACE

This course is an exploration of space: internal, external, and subtle space; cosmological, sacred, creative, healing, and natural space; physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences of space; and the power of place. The course explores space as a construct of consciousness, the ways one is shaped by and shapes space, the internal and external architecture of space, and the psychophysiological effects of the structure of space.


CREATIVE AND VISIONARY PROCESSES

This course is an exploration of creative and visionary processes and their importance in personal and cultural evolution. The course explores creative and visionary processes in art, health and healing, self-expression, spiritual practice, social and natural systems, and in the lives of creatives and visionaries. The course includes immersion in, and reflection on, a creative and visionary process.


CREATIVE AWARENESS AND SELF HEALING

This course is an exploration of creative awareness and self healing. The course explores fundamental principles and processes of self healing that support and develop creative awareness, facilitate the release of habitual patterns and chronic pain, balance familial and interpersonal energy fields, enliven healing potential, honor and support the wisdom of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit, and deepen awareness of the physical, mental, emotional, and subtle bodies, nature, and the consciousness of health.


RELATIONSHIP, PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This course is an exploration of relationship, patterns, and dynamics of consciousness. The dynamics of the personality, interpersonal relationships, cosmological and natural cycles, and soul development are explored through astrological patterns and cycles of life, energy fields, past lives, and the deepening of awareness through self-inquiry. The course reviews relationship dynamics and medical astrology.


DREAMS, DEATH AND THE DIVINE

This course is an exploration of dreams, dreaming, death, and the divine. The course explores the many forms of dreams and dreaming: in daily life; creativity and revelation; lucid dreaming, near-death, out-of-body, and transcendent experiences; reincarnation; the subtle body and states of awareness; and the experience of the divine.


EVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS:
EDUCATION, IMAGINATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

This course is an exploration of evolutionary aesthetics: education as a living process, creativity as a learning process, and social transformation as an evolutionary process. The course explores the importance of creativity in education, of education in social transformation, and of aesthetic beauty in life, nature, the arts and sciences, health and healing, creativity, culture, and evolution.


CHAOS, EROS AND NOMOS

While Chaos refers to the original state of existence or void from which creation emerged, and Eros refers to new life, love, and beauty, Nomos refers to the ordering of experience and values. This course is an exploration of emergence, the healing power of love and reconciliation, the energetic fields of individuals, families, and communities, values, self-organization, and the spirit of reciprocity. The course explores subtle energies, participatory processes, engaged economics, governance, sustainability, creativity, and the health and evolution of social and natural systems.


CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMOLOGIES AND MAPS

This course is an exploration of consciousness, cosmologies, and maps. The course explores collective and personal cosmologies, the evolutionary architecture of individual lives, the mapping process, the subtle body, and consciousness. The mapping process effectively illustrates and powerfully illuminates repetitive patterns and habitual behaviors, relationship, group, and organizational dynamics, the subtle body, and personal cosmologies. It can be used for healing, life transitions, dreams, self-inquiry, meeting facilitation, and self-reflection, for insight, change, and growth.


SENSITIVITY AND THE SUBLIME

This course is an exploration of the sublime sensitivity inherent in the nature of being. The course explores sensitivity and the sublime: the experience of sensitives; the deepening of sensitivity and intuition with awareness; sensitivity to subtle energy; sensitivity in creativity and healing; sensitivity to, and the sensitivity of, nature; and sensitivity to the sublime.


ADDITIONAL COURSES


WOMEN, WISDOM AND THE WORLD

This course is an exploration of women, wisdom, and the importance of the wisdom of women in the world today. The course explores the lives of women visionaries and women of wisdom, and the ways women contribute to the collective wisdom of the world in education, the arts and sciences, culture, and social, economic, political, and spiritual life. The course explores the feminine and creativity, healing, intuition, emotion, nature, sustainability, and global transformation.


THE SUBTLE BODY AND THE RAINBOW LIGHTS

The subtle body is a dynamic system unique to each individual yet universal in nature. This course is an exploration of the dynamics of the subtle body system and the rainbow lights, the essential role the subtle body plays in health and healing, subtle fields, the soul and the supersensible, and the subtle world of nature. Explorations include the complex yet fundamental way subtle systems illuminate the forms and functions of all living things from cells to celestial bodies. The course explores the subtle senses of clairsentience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and claircognizance; subtle realms, planes, and dimensions of awareness; the thirteen primary chakras and toroidal body system; and subtle sensory ethics. The course focuses on personal experience and the development of awareness.


THE SUBTLE SENSES

This course is an exploration of the subtle senses including clairsentience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and claircognizance. Course explorations include states, realms, planes, and dimensions of awareness; nonphysical experiences including dreaming, near-death, and out-of-body experiences; and subtle sensory ethics. The course focuses on personal experience and the development of awareness. 


THE INFINITE AND ETERNAL

This course is an exploration of the infinite and the eternal: consciousness, awareness, and presence. Course explorations include self-reflection, space and time as constructs of consciousness, transformative experience, and nondual teachings. The course focuses on personal experience and the deepening of awareness.


COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY

This course is an exploration of communication and community. Course explorations include communication with living systems from the natural and subtle world to internal, interpersonal, international and interdimensional communication. The course explores nonverbal, subtle, intuitive, and nonlocal communication; creative cooperation with subtle and natural systems; afterlife and subtle realm communication; self-healing, self-organization, and participatory processes; and the health and evolution of local and nonlocal communities. The course includes communication and community processes. 


CREATIVITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

This course is an exploration of creativity and consciousness. Course explorations include the creative experience, creative expression, and the healing, transcendent, and transformative power of the creative process. The course explores creative contemplation, creative energy, awareness of the creative, and the importance of creative processes in personal and cultural evolution. The course focuses on both internal and external creative expression, and immersion in, and reflection on, a creative process.


CONSCIOUSNESS AND NATURE

This course is an exploration of consciousness and nature. The course explores the consciousness of nature, connection and communication with the natural world, and relationships within living systems. Participants will develop their sensitivity to the subtle realms of nature, connect and communicate with the natural world, and develop their awareness of relationships within living systems.


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