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Discussion Courses

 

Heart of the Earth offers introductory meetings periodically for all of the courses listed below. These courses, developed by the Northwest Earth Institute provide an enjoyable, supportive setting in which to examine personal values and habits, engage in stimulating discussion, and make personal changes if desired.

If you would like to start a discussion group, contact us and we will be glad to arrange an introductory meeting for you.

Please check our Calendar for the next offered introductory meeting.

 

Voluntary Simplicity: The Voluntary Simplicity course allows participants to explore potential benefits to simplicity.

Topics covered in the eight sessions include:

  • The Meaning of Simplicity
  • Your Money or Your Life
  • How Much is Enough?
  • The Practice of Simplicity
  • Living More With Less
  • Do Your Have the Time?
  • Swimming Against the Tide

    Learn more about the Voluntary Simplicity course

 

Globalization and Its Critics:  "Globalization" is a term that is frequently used but seldom defined. Since World War II, why has the global economy grown so rapidly? How is it affecting the environment, local economics, and social and cultural customs throughout the world?

Topics covered in the nine sessions include:

  • Globalization Overview
  • Questioning Free Trade
  • Transnational Corporations
  • Food and the Global Marketplace
  • Globalization and the Environment
  • Social Equity
  • Shaping Opinion
  • Homogenization of Cultures

          Learn more about the Globalization course

 

 

Choices for Sustainable Living:  Each of us makes choices that have an impact on the earth, and we can choose options that are more sustainable than others. Participants will consider choices that may result in ecologically sustainable lifestyles, communities, and organizations

Topics covered in the nine sessions include:

  • A Call to Sustainability
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Food
  • Lifestyles
  • Ecological Principles
  • Business and Economy
  • Buying
  • Visions of Sustainability

      Learn more about the Choices for Sustainable Living course

 

 

Discovering A Sense of Place:  What is a bioregional perspective? What are the benefits of developing an intimate relationship with your place and what it means to protect the place you live? This course addresses these issues.

Topics covered in the eight sessions include:

  • A Sense of Place
  • Knowing Your Bioregion
  • Mapping Your Place
  • Empowerment
  • Responsibility to Place
  • Living in Place
  • Community

Learn more about the Discovering a Sense of Place course

 

 

Deep Ecology and Related Topics:  To clarify earth-related values through discussion about deep ecology and related topics; to discover how personal values affect the way we view and treat the earth; to explore what it means to take personal responsibility for the earth.

Topics covered in the nine sessions include:

  • Deep Ecology
  • The Gaia Hypothesis
  • Spirituality and the Earth
  • Native American Wisdom
  • Ecopsychology
  • Simplicity
  • Bioregionalism
  • Ritual

          Learn more about the Deep Ecology course

 

 

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