Introduction to Depth Education

Course description

This advanced course is for individuals who have completed Facing Human Wrongs 2.0: Climate, Complexity, and Relational Accountability and wish to learn about how to design depth education experiences in their professional contexts. Unlike mastery education, depth education does not predetermine what learners should think or do. Instead, it supports participants in navigating volatility, complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity by expanding their capacity to hold space for a multiplicity of perspectives, paradoxical claims, and conflictual relationships without feeling overwhelmed or immobilized. At its heart, depth education fosters the development of contextual judgment while issuing a call for emotional sobriety, relational maturity, intellectual discernment, and intergenerational responsibility. 

Course Methodology: This course invites participants to consider learning designs that can support expanding the capacity of those they work with to practice.

Contextual Judgment: Developing the ability to make decisions based on contextual flows and relationships rather than predetermined methods and outcomes.

Emotional Sobriety: Cultivating the ability to stay grounded and present in the face of complexity, difficulty and emotional challenges.

Relational Maturity: Building responsible relationships that recognize and address systemic neglect, harm and complicity.

Intellectual Discernment: Sharpening the ability to critically evaluate and discern complex information and perspectives.

Intergenerational Responsibility: Tracing the historical imprints and the long-term implications of actions and decisions, embracing the need to correct ancestral mistakes and considering obligations to future generations.