EMP 839 M. Burgess 3 credits
Connection, Communication, Creation, and Communion II
Description
Many of the most pressing interpersonal, community, and international issues today revolve around connection, communication, creation, and communion, or the lack thereof. When present, they embody potent forms of energy medicine. This course explores the nature and experience of the process of internal and external, verbal and nonverbal, intuitive and psychophysiological, interpersonal and international, connection, communication, creation, and communion. The ways one affects oneself and is affected by others through thoughts, words, and actions, conversation and dialogue, social networks and global dynamics, will be explored. The course will include a review of contemporary communication models and techniques, patterns and perspectives, from inner awareness to Bohemian dialogue, Nonviolent Communication to citizen consensus councils.
Objectives
- Develop and deepen their awareness of the processes of connection, communication, creation, and communion
- Be able to utilize this awareness within themselves and with others in their research and therapeutic methods, and healing profession
- Practice and develop skills involving connecting, communicating, creating, and communing
- Be able to assist clients by using the awareness and understanding they have gained, and apply that knowledge wisely and effectively
Topics
- An overview of energy medicine principles and practice
- Assessing and balancing the meridians
- Assessing and balancing the chakras
- Working with the aura, Celtic weave, and strange flows
- A five-minute daily energy routine
- Addressing physical pain
- Triple warmer and the immune system
Texts
- Bateson, Gregory Steps to Ecology of Mind
- Buchanan, Mark Nexus
- Berger, John, and Christie, John I Send You this Cadmium Red
- Mindell, Arnold The Dreambody in Relationships
- Nichol, Lee The Essential David Bohm
- Rosenberg, Marshall B. Nonviolent Communication, a Language of Life
- Gunter Pauli Zeri
- Burgess, Mali The Geometry of Relationship
- Burgess, Mali Center For Peacebuilding and Conflict Management
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