The Invitation

• Fit integrated contemporary humanistic and scientific understandings into your work in a fruitful, meaningful way. 

• Contribute the resources of diverse disciplines, times and cultures to your mission and to the reconception of your developmental, educational and organizational concerns.

A participatory and performative educational effort, The Institute for Contemporary/Ancient Learning is set up for the interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and intercultural exploration of the themes and practices of The Global Noetic Repertoire in its traditional, scientific and other relevant expressions. It works for the cultivation of integrated, sustaining meaningfulness in interpersonal, organizational, community and global ecopolitical life. It works for the sustaining values, meanings and interpretations, humanistic and spiritual, that inform and support sustainable human and earth-human systems.

From “The Global Noetic Repertoire” of nondual and holistic, systemic, nonreductive and integral insights, The Institute invites you on a case-by-case basis to a collaborative, animating hybridization of ancient wisdom and contemporary humanistic and scientific insight in surprisingly revealing and beneficial ways. Practical holistic insights contribute meaningfully and imaginatively to the sustainability of interpersonal, organizational, and institutional well-being  and to ecohumane democratic polity.

• Interdisciplinary Resources:  Rare expertise from over thirty-five years of graduate and undergraduate university teaching, research, fellowships, publications and civic intellectual participation; course creation in humanities, world literature and literary theory, comparative philosophy,  interdisciplinary liberal studies, professional studies, systems theory, environment and community studies, religious studies, adult, community college and high school education.
• Transdisciplinary Resources: Research interconnecting history and evolution of consciousness, consciousness sciences, philosophy of science, scientific theory, myth, symbol and literary interpretation, cultural & symbolic anthropology, analytical & archetypal psychology, Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism & indigenous tradition, mystical theologies, critical theory, deconstruction & poststructuralism, philosophical hermeneutics & interpretation theory, cosmology and theory of self-organizing systems.
• Intercultural Resources: Educational and social service work experience in tundra and urban Alaska; teaching and research in The People’s Republic of China; certificated training in interpersonal relations orientations, in conflict & collaboration and in Permaculture Design; research and publications integrating traditional learning, modern systems science, transformative & contemplative educational experience. Extensive teaching experience at recognized universities in different regions of the US.
• If you’re looking for the step beyond the partial and the fragmented or the merely procedural, If you think to authentic, animating practices, interactions and ideas, If you work collaboratively for genuinely sustaining meaning in professional, academic, personal or community life, or If you are drawn to the deep play of realizing our resources for long-term ecohumane coworlding, let’s have a conversation.
• Availability: For consulting, seminars, lectures, dialogues, conversations, teaching and workshops or for curricular and course design, writing, and strategic, political, scholarly or editorial consulting & policy analysis.

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