Social Ecological Foundations - A Free Introductory Course
Channel: mtchkys
Date: 29/11/2018

Social Ecology Brisbane is an organisation that seeks to redefine, in its own activity, what it means to be human. As humans ourselves, we encourage the creative, empathetic, collaborative, spontaneous, and fundamentally free tendencies of our own species. We exist to foster a new mentality for our own times, amounting to a paradigm shift in the spiritual, psychic, sociological and material values we hold. We exist to realise that we are nature. 

For this realisation to be actualised in the world, we believe it is essential for capable, willing and like-minded individuals to co-operate with one another, to make it happen. That’s why we formed a club; a vanguard that seeks to work with the flows of history, supporting the liberation of ourselves and our communities. 

For us, this project begins with an attempt to inject radical assembly democracy into the living heart of Brisbane city. Key to positively impacting the world in this way is personally attaining an interactive and experiential education that connects one to nature and to others, whilst emphasising and exploring the theories and practices that make up our everyday lives. 

Right now, in our own context, we feel there is scarce access to that sort of transformative education. That’s why we are launching our curriculum on Saturday, the 8th of December, beginning (as one does) with the first 80-minute lesson in a series of social-ecological courses that will seek to provide just that. 

These lessons will be grounded within a different natural context each week, which we will interact with, learn from and contribute to. The courses will act as a ‘strange attractor’ for activists and community members across Brisbane. As we learn about ourselves and our world in exciting new ways, the talents, skills, knowledge, understandings and wisdom that we already hold dear can be openly shared and discussed within the group. In this sense, we are all students and teachers in this course. We are all learning to act gracefully within our complex and wicked world, through the essence of reciprocity and mutual enrichment.