The range of courses offered in the Featured Courses section of the Charter Education Institute stem from assisting individuals, teams and organizations around the world on understanding the mind and heart of a compassionate community and explore processes that create paths to design sustainable action plans to meet local, national and international challenges. In addition, just as many of us engage in different circles of culture and society, so does the Charter for Compassion. The Charter supports work in twelve sectors: art, business, education, environment, healthcare, interfaith (religion and spirituality), peace, science and research, social justice, social services, restorative justice, and women and girls. Consequently, course work is being desired and implemented in each of these sectors.
Vist this page periodically to see current listing of courses which usually change monthly or bi-monthly.
NEW!
Humanity 360: Environmental Concerns That Affect Us All - And What we Can Do about it.
Included: 3 Optional Zoom meetings:
1. Saturday, March 20th at 8am PT; 3 pm GMT; 8:30 pm IST/2 a.m. AEDT
2. Saturday, April 6th at 8am PT; 3 pm GMT; 8:30 pm IST/2 a.m. AEDT
3. Post-course Zoom: Saturday, April 17 at 8am PT; 3 pm GMT; 8:30 pm IST/2 a.m. AEDT
Recordings will be available
What are the diverse and urgent issues facing our common humanity?
What challenges and opportunities exist for transformation with these issues?
How can each of us come to feel empowered to address these issues?
Welcome to Humanity 360, an innovative media, mindfulness and social engagement-based curriculum for recognizing our common humanity and how societal issues shape us and are shaped by us.
In this first course of a three part series, we will examine our Environment through the following concerns:
Food democracy and seed protection • Wildlife habitat and protection • Climate adaptation and migration • Nature and Technology
"We have developed this curriculum to meet the demands of our times and respond to the call of increasing numbers for critical social change through compassion, agency and action."
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Back by Popular Demand!
Poetry for Inspiration and Wellbeing
Start Date: April 6, 2021
Duration: 5 weeks
Facilitator: John Smelcer
Cost: $30.00
Included: Zoom Dates and Times to Come
Registration: Opening March, 2021
A chance to learn about writing poetry from the one of the longest-serving poetry editors of a national magazine in American history. Come join us for this popular course in April which is National Poetry Month!
Poetry has the power to inspire. Poetry can give witness to social injustices or show us how to live mindfully and compassionately. Poetry is therapeutic. For those who are hurting, poetry has the power to heal. Many people begin writing poetry as part of a healing process. By writing about what has injured our spirit in the past and about how we feel about ourselves presently, we can diminish suffering and begin to rediscover joy. This course will explore how writing poetry can inspire not only us, but others, how it can increase well-being, and how it can be used to teach tolerance, understanding, and compassion, including compassion for the earth and all living things.
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Back by popular demand!
Compassionate Integrity Training - Spring 2021
Start Date: Thursday April 29, 2021 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time
End Date: July 1, 2021
Time: 2 hours starting at 9 a.m. E.T./6 a.m. P.T./2 p.m. GMT/6:30 p.m. IST/11 p.m. AEST.
Duration: 10 weeks
Registration: Opening Soon!
Registration will be limited to 75 participants
Cost: The full price for Compassionate Integrity Training is $250.00. Life University’s guiding principle of "Lasting Purpose: To Give, To Do, To Love, To Serve – Out of a Sense of Abundance" allows us to offer this course based on what you can afford. If $250 exceeds your financial means, then pay what you can based on the options provided during Registration.
Have you ever wondered how you could cultivate the compassion called for in the Charter or help others cultivate that compassion? Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a great place to start!
CIT is a resiliency-informed program that cultivates human values as skills, so we can thrive as individuals, and a society, within a healthy environment. By learning skills to calm our bodies and mind, becoming more emotionally aware, learning to practice compassion for ourselves and others, as well as engaging with compassion in complex systems, we can build towards compassionate integrity: the ability to live one’s life in accordance with one’s values with a recognition of common humanity, our basic orientation to kindness and reciprocity.
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Included: Zoom: Dates and times to come
In 2020 we woke to discover Covid-19 and we were thrown into facing that our daily lives and livelihoods were truly at risk.
Confronted by emotions and situations we were never really prepared for, we have hidden ourselves in behaviours that keep us going each day - ostrich-head-in-the-sand-avoidance, addictions, anxiety, anger, fear, binge-watching and on and on. Sometimes seeking ways to make sense of our heads, hearts and gut-instincts and other times veering away in the horror that we may disintegrate.
These are the waves on the unsteady ocean of life we are navigating. The Lighthouse in the Storm recognises Covid-19 is synonymous with loss and loss requires grieving. Grieving the world as we knew it and the world and our circumstances as they are right now. Confusing, unsafe, unpredictable and changing rapidly, whilst at the same time each day seems much the same as the one before. Much is demanded of us and we often don’t feel up to the task – physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.
We need The Light from The Lighthouse
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One of our most popular courses returns!
Growing Whole, Not Old: Aging in the Pandemic Age
Start Date: June 7, 2021
Duration: 4 weeks
Price: $30
Included: Zoom Dates: Dates and Times to come.
Registration: Opening May
Aging in the Pandemic Age - Beginning with the 20th Century, people approaching elderhood could expect to live another 20 or 30 years. However, the worldwide impact of the Coronavirus, has presented us all with new constraints, increased isolation, and amplified fears. Ironically, the bright side is that this pandemic has shed light on how important it is to find our purpose and plan for the future with clarity. Now, more than ever - comes the question - "How do you want to live these years?"
Sage-ing® (also known as Spiritual Eldering or Conscious Aging) offers a new and viable approach to growing older. It is a model for aging more deliberately, more joyfully, and more compassionately.
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Returning with new content!
Our Sense-Able Nature: Mindfully Reconnecting with the Natural World
Start Date: July 19, 2021
Duration: 4 weeks
Cost: $30 U.S.
Course is Online with facilitator participation
Facilitator: Kate Trnka
Included: Optional Zoom:
July 20 at 6 am PT/ 2 pm GMT/ 6:30 pm IST/ 7:30 p.m. IST/ 1 a.m. AEDT
July 27 at same times
August 3 at same times
August 10 at same times
Registration: Opening late June
There are many wonderful health benefits when we mindfully engage with nature. More and more, science is telling us that it is imperative to our health and well-being that we have an intimate relationship with the natural world. And, with the pandemic wreaking havoc on our health in so many ways, it’s more important than ever to really “be” with nature. This course is designed to introduce you to simple ways to re-member yourself with the natural world - resulting in amazing mental, emotional, physical and spiritual benefits along the way.
You will be guided through a variety of ways you can commune with the natural world. We will learn about natural attractions and begin the process of engaging with our 54 natural senses/sensitivities - yes, 54.
I’ve chosen to feature a variety of different activities than those in the previous version of this course. So, whether you’re taking this for the first time, or are a returning participant, you will be able to participate in a variety of connecting-with-nature activities and still be provided with the necessary groundwork to get us all started on the same foot.
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Ongoing!
Compassion Integrity Training (CIT) for Educators
Date: Contact us for dates
Duration: 5 weeks
Registration: Contact Us!
The Charter for Compassion and CIT’s Global Education Network are presenting a special Four-Part Program for educators and administrators, including:
Click here for more information and links to contact us!