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Conscious Cultural Evolution - Course 1 - 'Prototype'
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Conscious Cultural Evolution - Course 1 - 'Prototype'

Small Group Praxis in Regenerative Community Building
Created byBrian McConnell, Vishwanath Varma
Last updated 7/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • By the end of Course 1, its learners will possess a sense of how to envision, design, and in turn build, "a more harmonious, equitable, and sustainable future".
  • Learners will develop the capacity to distinguish between mere "cognition" and "conscious awareness" as it translates both across and between, varying cultures.
  • Course participants will learn the respective ways in which one either "empowers" or "liberates" one's self and how these dimensions interrelate to each other.
  • Practitioners will explore the extent to which "conscious awareness", as they practice it, serves to inform the design of "transformative change-models".

Course content

2 sections • 6 lectures • 1h 5m total length

  • Lesson 1 - Course Introduction7:26

    Lesson 1 serves as an introduction to the overall project positing that Ken Wilber's efforts to 'integrate science and religion' (The Marriage of Sense and Soul -1998) run parallel to David Sloan Wilson's (Darwin's Cathedral - 2002) own prescience of "conscious cultural evolution" (This View of Life - 2019).

  • Practice Quiz - Lesson 1 - "Course Introduction"
  • Lesson 2 - Project Overview7:18

    Lesson 2 concludes the project's overview, highlighting how "consciousness" can be fundamentally distinguished between scientific knowledge ("epistemology") and adaptive being ("ontology").

  • Quiz - Lesson 2 - Ch. 1 Reading - "Introduction and Project Overview"
  • Assignment #1 - Two Vocabulary Terms!

Requirements

  • The course's curriculum, although molded to be as comprehensive as possible, poses complexity at a level that's best suited for relatively high-functioning ("consciousness") practitioners already possessing reasonably established reflective disciplines (i.e. meditative or contemplative) and relatively strong academic abilities.
  • Consequently, and if not already doing so, successful completion of the course necessitates sustaining regular, ongoing, meditative (or 'reflective') practice of a recommended minimum of 40 minutes per day.
  • Example: Sustain meditative (or 'reflective') practice 20 minutes (or more), twice a day, and have the ability to employ those 'reflective' capacities in completing brief writing assignments and interrelating with other course practitioner-participants.
  • Because the primary focus of the "Conscious Cultural Evolution" course entails 'learning to embrace relational complexity through shared reflective practice', students bear the responsibility for having already addressed individualized emotional or psychological issues which might otherwise pose a hindrance in doing more intensive "group" work.
  • Example: Group members will possess a reasonably informed background or framework for addressing 'shadow work' whether through Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT), or other modality.

Description

What is Conscious Cultural Evolution?

"Conscious Cultural Evolution refers to the intentional development and transformation of human societies and cultures, guided by awareness, ethics, and a vision for a more harmonious, equitable, and sustainable future. It involves the idea that humans can direct their social, ethical, and spiritual development through education, communication, and collective actions, as opposed to relying solely on natural or unconscious evolution" (OpenAI, 2024).


What About "Course 1"?

Recognizing a critical need more than 10 years ago to adopt radically alternative approaches to contemporary life--especially those involving ecosystem design and development, Course 1 has come into existence here on Udemy as a 'psycho-activated' learning platform integrating science, spirituality (i.e. 'art'), and language together in a way affording its pupils unique journeys of self-discovery and their co-creative potentials.

Conceived with the express intent of re-envisioning the role, and underlying purpose of, leadership in relation to "community-building", Course 1's overarching learning objective entails guiding its students along a path lending itself to 'moderating a small group's inquiry into the shaping and development of an ecoregion project'.


Like to Learn More? . . .

Although the Conscious Cultural Evolution course is fully activated here on Udemy, its designers are also actively engaged in overseeing ongoing prototyping to inform the course's future development. For these reaons, and because registration in the course is a means of initiating additional contact, connection, and/or communication between us, you may wish to exercise that option as well. 

References

OpenAI. (2024): ChatGPT (September 10th version), “Udemy and Cultural Evolution”. Accessed September 20, 2024 via internet

Who this course is for:

  • Individuals with a qualified appreciation for the co-creative potentials accompanying reflective (or, "mindfulness") practice.
  • Example: A small-group instructor coaching others in how to better integrate new technologies into their Art and Culture practice(s).
  • Those with a penchant for impacting constructive "change" in the health and wellbeing of a community's members.
  • Example: A civic leader innovating alternative approaches to urban transportation.

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