Facing Human Wrongs 2.0: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability

Course description

This six-week online intensive course was designed to guide you through an exploration of the ongoing systemic violence we perpetuate towards one another and the planet we are part of. This transformative journey aims to support you in processing your responses, moving away from guilt and shame, and cultivating a compass of sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility. This course provides an innovative pedagogy where you are offered tools to gradually expand your capacity to confront difficult and painful issues without demanding quick fixes or feeling overwhelmed and immobilized. These tools will also support you in navigating complexity and holding space for uncertainty, ambivalence and paradoxes. In this course, we invite you to "dig deeper and relate wider" in a life-long and life-wide inquiry about how we can show up to each other and to the planet differently in these challenging times.

The course expands on the invitations of the book "Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism" and the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective. Half of the proceeds of the course will be redistributed to the Indigenous communities in South America (Huni Kui, Tremembé, Pitaguary and Fulni-ô Indigenous communities) of the land and water protectors who have inspired and supported the pedagogical intent and approach of this course.

Delivery

This is an asynchronous online course which means that there are no live class times each week and you are not required to be online each day- usually three times a week is adequate and you do not need to be online at any particular day or time to participate. You’ll engage with the course content through the online learning platform we use called Brightspace and all that is required is connection to the internet.

For the general offering, optional synchronous tutorials on Zoom will be offered on Sundays from 10:00-11:30 am PST or 12:00-1:30 pm PST during the course dates. And for the BPOC offering, the optional synchronous tutorials on Zoom will be on Saturdays from 10:00 to 11:30 am PST. The tutorials will be recorded for later viewing.

The course sections for November listed below are open to all those who are interested. Please note that there will be an additional November section open for BPOC individuals. Registration for the BPOC caucus group will open on October 16. Please subscribe to the mailing list at the bottom of this page to receive notifications.

Course fee

This course includes a sliding fee scale. When registering, please select the fee type that applies to you.

1. Base fee: The base course fee is $650 CAD (with 50% of net proceeds redistributed to Indigenous-led projects in the amazon and Northeast of Brazil)
   
   
2. Pay-it-forward fee: Please consider paying 50% more ($975 CAD) to contribute towards the participation of more people if you:
   • Have the ability to comfortably meet all your basic needs and have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education, social class or other forms of privilege
   • belong to a sponsoring organization, are employed full-time or work part-time by choice
   • own the home you live in, have investments, retirement accounts, inherited money, or have access to family money and resources in times of needs
   • travel recreationally
     
     
3. Reduced fee: You can also choose the reduced fee ($325 CAD) if you:
   • Have difficulty covering basic expenses for you and/or your family
   • have medical expenses not covered by insurance
   • are an elder with limited financial support