Courses and Workshops
The Center offers courses and workshops that reflect its vision and philosophy. Courses will run in the morning and late afternoon, leaving time after lunch for a siesta, quiet reflection or a walk in the surrounding countryside. There may also be some time set aside for sightseeing.
We are happy to help those who wish to gain continuing education or professional development credits and will contact their organizations if requested.
Accommodation and all meals, traditional Tuscan cooking, are included in the price of the courses. To register for a course, participants must send in a non-refundable deposit.
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New Sciences/ New Paradigms
F. David Peat
3-9 September 2009
This workshop/course, given by David Peat, will range over many of the issues discussed in his books and Web site (www.fdavidpeat.com). It will consider the implications of new ideas and new thinking for human values, society, community, the environment and our common future. It will explore the links between art, science, psychology and consciousness, creativity, the spirit of place, the nature of language and an exploration of alternative worldviews.
While the course will draw upon the paradigms of modern science these will be presented in a non-technical way, with many examples and metaphors, so as to be accessible to non-scientists. The content will include: the quantum nature of matter, chaos theory and self-organization, Synchronicity and an introduction to Jungian ideas, creativity, the role of the observer in quantum theory and the limits to language, the participatory universe; artificial intelligence, mind-body problem, perception; Native American world-views. The ideas of David Bohm, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Neils Bohr will also be explored.
The course will also draw upon Peat 's Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Chhange to a Turbulent world, The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind, and From Certainty to Uncertainty: The History of Thought in the Twentieth Century.
Instructor: Dr. F. David Peat
Dates: 3-9 September 2009
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