Environmental and holistic education at the Sanctuary

 

Educational programs


Education promoting humanistic and environmental values and the disciplined search for sacred meaning makes up one of the Sanctuary’s core directives. The Sanctuary hosts a diverse set of educational workshops through the year. Programs this year have included film screenings and visiting lecturers sponsored by the Earth Charter of the Lower Valley (EccoLov) and other groups on such topics as sustainability, green energy and ecopsychology, sacred geometry, Kundalini yoga, dream interpretation and home schooling.       

          In addition, the Sanctuary offers regular and seasonal educational programs for adults and children and supports the development of several “learning ecologies.”


SUMMER 2009 Cirque de Lune Summer Camp Program


A uniquely progressive summer camp experience integrating holistic health, place-based and hands-on learning, and the cultivation of creativity, self-control, mindfulness and compassionate and empowered engagement with reality (cont.)


FALL 2009 Nine Questions About Love Adult Seminar


The Sanctuary is currently offering a continuing education seminar entitled devoted to open, informed, philosophically incisive conversation about the nature of love, love ethics, non-violence and divine love. With so many misrepresentations of love in mass media, we believe in the value of collective, communal reflection on this key aspect of personal and communal life. The nine questions are:   


1. How can love make you a better person?

2. Is passion compatible with happiness?

3. Is passionate love sustainable? If so, how?

4. How do we steal energy from each other and how do we evolve our love?

5. How does market society shape the ways we love people, places and things?

  1. 6.What is gender and how does it shape the ways we love?

  2. 7.What does the natural history of love tell us about the meaning of our desires?

  3. 8.What is sacred about the pleasure of love?

  4. 9.What did/does/will a society where people love each other look like?


Classes meet the SECOND WEDNESDAY each month

in the yurt at the Sanctuary, 59 Bogel Road, East Haddam.

Tuition: $15 per class or $100 to register for the whole series.


For more information, visit the the course blog


NineQuestionsAboutLove.blogspot.com


Learning Ecologies at the Sanctuary


More to come!!!!