MODULE 3 – Paradigm Shift and Emerging Cultural Values

 

 

17th-21st September 2018 (5 days) at Bangkok

(Pracha Hutanuwatra)

 

Module Description:

Participants will be led in an intensive intellectual inquiry into the contemporary global shift of core societal values in human society that is happening now. We will cover topics such as questioning and reassessing European Enlightenment thinking; introduction to Asian thinking, the resurgence of spiritual traditions; the emerging new sciences in the West; holistic and systems thinking; cultural integrity and changes. Participants will become aware of the massive cultural change that is happening now in the midst of the myriad crises we are facing as a human race.

 

Learning Goal

            To develop an intensive intellectual enquiry into the contemporary global shift of core societal values in human society that is happening now

 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  1. become aware of the global crises we are facing as a human race
  2. be able to question and reassess European Enlightenment thinking
  3. appreciate Asian thinking, the resurgence of spiritual traditions, the emerging new sciences in the West, holistic and systems thinking, cultural integrity and changes

 

Learning Themes (schedule example from 2017)

Date Content
DAY 1 Theme: Exploration of New Paradigm examples in Contemporary World  

  • Learning from Nong Sarai community – Self sufficiency
DAY 2 Theme: Exploration of New Paradigm examples in Contemporary World 

  • Discussion and home visit with Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa

Confronting the Old Paradigm

  • Exposure visit to Patpong (red light area)
DAY 3 Theme: Framing knowledge on Worldviews 

  •  Paradigm Shift: Worldviews in Transformation
DAY 4 Theme:  New Paradigm Thinking 

  •  New Science

Click HERE to read more about Nong Sarai community (written by last year students)

Recommended Readings and Websites:

 

Books:

Capra, Fritjof, 1984, The turning point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture, Bantam; Reissue.

Capra, Fritjof, 2016, The systems view of life: a unifying vision,Cambridge University Press.

Palmer, Parker J., 2009. “Chapter 7: Deep Speaks to Deep: Learning to Speak and Listen”.  in A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Laloux, Frederic, 2014. “Part 1 Historical and Developmental Perspective”. in Reinventing Organizations. Brussels: Nelson Parker. Page 11-43.

 

 

PDFs:

Capra, Fritjof, Turning Point: A Science of Living Systems. Retrieved From : https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2b26/6aa324e7bffbdccc92fd351b19c6ceefbacf.pdf

Capra Fritjof, The Systems View of Life. Retrieved From: https://www.nord.no/no/om-oss/fakulteter-og-avdelinger/handelshogskolen/senter/sooe/Documents/Fritjof_Capra_The-systems-view-of%20life_I.pdf

 

Website:

Palmer, Parker J., 2012. If Only We Would Listen: Parker J. Palmer On What We Could Learn About Politics, Faith and Each Other[Online]. interviewed by Alicia Von Stamwitz. The Sun. Retrieved From: https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/443/if-only-we-would-listen

Traditional Chinese Organ Body Clock. Retrieved From: http://foreverconscious.com/traditional-chinese-organ-body-clock

 

Videos:

Earth Pilgrim – A Year on Dartmoor,Satish Kumar, BBC

 

Hand-outs/ Powerpoints During Module:

Edge Effect – Permaculture Principles

Paradigm Shift – Powerpoint, Pracha Hutanuwatra

Personal and Planetary Health – Powerpoint, Pracha Hutanuwatra