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COURSES OF LEARNING The Institute currently offers the following courses of learning in formats tailored to the learning processes of the participants. Formats include in-person and distance learning for individuals and groups. These courses comprise an integral Program in Consciousness for independent learners and those at highschool, college, masters, and doctoral levels of learning. Transfer credits for semester length courses are accepted in the Masters and Doctoral programs at Energy Medicine University. Courses of learning can be adapted for homeschool and independent learners at K-8 levels of learning. Courses of learning are currently taught by Mali Burgess, CMT PhD. For more information please contact the Institute. This course of learning is an exploration of patterns and dynamics of relationship reflected in the deep structures of consciousness and foundational processes of life. 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 complexity, social networks, and chaordic systems, geometric dynamics and sacred structures, psyche and soma, and processes and structures of consciousness. This course of learning is an exploration of the nature, experience, and use of energy. The course explores the energy of natural systems, bioenergy, psychophysiological and phenomenological aspects of energy, the energy of space, interpersonal and life energy, healing energy, energy and information, and cross-cultural, architectural, scientific, social, and sustainable approaches to, and ways of working with, energy. Many of the most pressing interpersonal, community, and international issues of today revolve around communication, or the lack thereof. This course of learning explores the nature and experience of communication: internal and external, verbal and nonverbal, intuitive and psychophysiological, interpersonal and international, and the importance of the process of connection, communication, creation, and communion. The course explores the effects of thoughts, words, and actions, conversation and dialogue, social networks and global dynamics. It includes a review of contemporary communication methods, from Bohmian dialogue and Nonviolent Communication to citizen consensus councils, and explores fundamental processes of connection, comunication, creation and communion including self-reflection, self-reflective dialogue, and participatory dynamics. This practicum provides an opportunity to practice processes of connection, communication, creation, and communion. Processes include self-reflection, self-inquiry, self-reflective dialogue, clear communication, and participatory dynamics. The practicuum explores personal, contemporary, and nondual approaches to communication, truth, and awareness. This course of learning is an exploration of the nature and experience of space: space as a construct of consciousness, the ways one is shaped by and shapes space, the internal and external architecture of space, the experience of space and time, and the psychophysiological effects of the structure of space. The course explores internal spatial architecture and cosmological space, and physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences of mundane, sacred, and creative space. This course of learning is an exploration of creative and visionary processes and their role in personal and cultural evolution. The course explores creative processes of life from essence and inception to manifestation and dissolution, processes of insight, inspiration, intuition, imagination, and self-expression, creative and visionary processes in various contexts and disciplines, ways of enhancing personal creative and visionary potential, and evolutionary aesthetics. This course of learning is an immersion in the visionary and creative process. Participants create works in media of their choice, reflecting on the artistic process in various contexts and disciplines. Content, materials, the creative and visual experience, and the enrichment and expansion of creative inspiration are explored, and completed works reviewed. This course of learning explores the nature and importance of touch and the art of healing touch. Participants explore the nature and experience of touch, healing touch, and the experience of giving and receiving healing touch. The course includes a practicum in healing touch and therapeutic bodywork using a variety of methods. This course of learning explores creative awareness and self-healing. It includes an exploration of personal healing, self-healing accounts, and a self-healing practicum based on focused awareness, deep relaxation, and breath. The reviews the use self healing to release tension and relieve chronic pain, the unification of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of body consciousness., ways of deepening and enlivening one's healing potential and health, and supporting the health and healing potential of others. This course of learning is an exploration of body awareness. The course explores cross-cultural approaches to body awareness such as yoga, dance, martial arts, creative awareness, and embodied cognition. It includes a practicum in postural alignment, hatha yoga and the three locks, and tai chi. The course explores the psychophysiological and health benefits of body awareness, and the process of body, mind, spirit integration. This course of learning is an exploration of patterns and dynamics of relationship. The dynamics of personality, interpersonlal relationships, and cosmological cycles are explored through astrological patterns, while the deepning of awareness and the experience of the present is explored through self-inquiry. The course explores evolutionary approaches to patterns and dynamics of consciousness, cycles of life, and the human experience,. While Chaos refers to the state of existence from which Eros, the god of love and sexual desire, arose from the void, Nomos refers to the ordering of experience and the spirit of law. This course of learning is an exploration of void, desire, and the process and spirit of ordering by individuals and societies. The course explores the nature of personal experience, social interaction, economic reciprocity, and processes of self-organization and governance. This course of learning is an exploration of consciousness, cosmologies, and the process of mapping. The course explores the architecture of personal and collective cosmologies, the evolutionary architecture of individual lives, and mapping as an effective and integral process for illustrating and illuminating life patterns, behavioral loops, habitual, traumatic, and transcendental life experiences, personal cosmologies, interpersonal and intimate patterns, group and organizational dynamics, and as a process for meeting facilitation, reflection, and inquiry for insight, change, and growth. This course of learning 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 beauty in life, nature, mathematics, physics, art, architecture, visual perception, neuroscience, creativity, culture, economics, sustainability, and evolutionary aesthetics.. This course of learning is an exploration of dreams, death, and the divine. The course explores dreams in their many forms and their role in personal development, daily life, and scientific innovation. Explorations include revelatory, near-death, out-of-body, reincarnation, and transcendent experiences, and the nature and experience of the divine. |