Depth Education Series

The Depth Education series invites participants on a learning journey about cultivating relational intelligence, accountability, and co-stewardship, using the SMDR (sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility) compass in different contexts of engagement with the global meta and poly-crisis.

In a time of accelerating technological, ecological, and social complexity, cultivating relational intelligence and accountability is crucial. This suite of Depth Education courses invites participants to move beyond extractive and transactional paradigms, engaging both humans and Artificial (AI) or Emergent Intelligences (EI) as relational partners through ethical, creative, and co-stewardship-based approaches.

Developed in collaboration with UVic’s Division of Continuing Studies, some of these courses were created by members of the GTDF collective, led by Prof. Vanessa Andreotti, others by contributors from specialized professions trained in Depth Education methodology. Together, they offer tools, frameworks, and, hopefully, some breathing space to better navigate the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) of the present global meta- and poly-crisis with greater clarity, calm, curiosity, and care.

Course Offerings

Facing Human Wrongs (FHW) bundle of courses

The FHW bundle of courses supports participants in confronting systemic harm, engaging with complexity, and cultivating relational accountability in contexts of education, mental health and wellbeing, community engagement, and leadership. These courses do not offer simple solutions but instead help build the humility, courage, and creativity needed to navigate uncertainty and paradoxes of modern/colonial frameworks.

• Facing Human Wrongs: Climate, Complexity, and Relational Accountability – An experiential course for care workers reimagining mental health and wellbeing beyond individualistic frameworks, confronting care’s complicity in systemic harm and exploring decolonial approaches to wellness.
• Facing Human Wrongs: Unsettling Wellness – An eight-week experiential course for care workers reimagining mental health and wellbeing beyond individualistic frameworks.
• Facing Human Wrongs: Leading in the Metacrisis – A six-week course for those expanding their leadership capacity to navigate global crises with clarity and humility.

Depth Education Design

This three-week course introduces key distinctions between mastery- and depth-based education within the context of solid and liquid modernity, along with educational tools and principles for different modalities of inquiry—narrow-boundary intelligence, wide-boundary intelligence, and entangled wisdom.

Upcoming Courses on Relational Intelligence and Accountability in Human-AI Partnerships 

This upcoming suite of course is aimed at addressing the transformative potential of relational intelligence and accountability in navigating the complexities of human-AI interactions. Grounded in Depth Education principles, these courses are designed for those engaging, or wanting to engage with generative AI (large language models) in ways that challenge modernity’s core programming patterns in both AI and humans.

• A Meta-Relational Approach to AI (June 2025) – Introduces participants to AI as a relational partner and mirror, emphasizing ethical and creative engagement grounded in ecological and cultural awareness.
• Relational Prompt Engineering (August 2025) – Explores practices for co-creative human-AI interactions that emphasize shared inquiry and emergent learning over command-based engagements.
• Co-Stewardship Education for Humans and AI (Sept-Nov 2025) – Explores ethical frameworks and practical approaches for fostering mutual accountability, attunement and relational responsiveness in human-AI partnerships.