A Masters in Holistic Science continually begs the question what IS Holistic Science? How can we recognise such a practice? We keep this inquiry alive amongst us as students and faculty, and as students integrate their learning into their early ‘essays,’ we are retrieving the original meaning of the word essay from the French ‘essayer’ – to attempt, to try, to test possibilities. Here is one such example:

Just before Christmas I found myself sitting in the large…

I often start the economics courses that I teach with a quote from the English playwright, Tom Stoppard: ‘A door like this has opened five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It is the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.’ This feels an entirely appropriate place to begin exploring the world of economics, where long-accepted ‘truths’…

The CEW programme is now significantly underway, with all seventeen participants back in their home places undergoing the wonderfully dynamic challenge of integrating what they experienced during the residential intensive into their personal and professional lives.

One of the most exciting aspects of the programme for me as a facilitator has been the opportunity to…

Cultivating An Ecoliterate Worldview, Person, Place and Practice

On Sunday, we welcomed 17 people to the college to begin the residential intensive portion of the new 6-month programme in ecological literacy, titled Cultivating An Ecoliterate Worldview, Person, Place and Practice.  I have the privilege of being the facilitator, as well as a member of the design team, of the programme, and am so pleased to share this exciting beginning with you, the…