Last Reminder
IHCMD Online Study/Training Program
Sustaining Human Existence in Changing Conditions
and Human Conceptual and Mental Development
Beyond Religion, Philosophy and Science:
Setting the Conceptual and Mental Conditions
(October 1999 to April 2000)
The Program
The Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IHCMD) is holding an Online Study and Training Program: Sustaining Human Existence in Changing Conditions and Human Conceptual and Mental Development -- Beyond Religion, Philosophy and Science: Setting the Conceptual and Mental Conditions. (The Program starts at the first full week of October 1999 and will continue until the end of April 2000.)
The Program is an exercise in individual conceptual and mental development. Developing individually the understanding and mental skills and practices to comprehend and manage human existence in equitable and sustainable ways in changing conditions. It is an exercise in individually setting the conceptual and mental conditions.
Focus and Concentration
The focus of the Program are persisting and growing human, social, and environmental conditions, problems and challenges we face today individually, as societies and as a species globally. The objective is for participants to develop an understanding of the fundamentals and principles of the nature and conditions, comprehending and managing, primarily human mental existence, of the nature, origins and common human causes and the direction of the answers and solutions to the conditions and problems we face. The approach is establishing clarity and coherence of mind and detailed and in-depth understanding of the known reflected in human experience, not pushing the frontiers of the unknown.
The Online Program will take participants through a discussion of:
- The fundamental and common nature, conditions, demands and challenges, especially of human mental existence.
- The historical path of human conceptual and mental development, of human beings trying to comprehend and manage their existence that has brought humanity to where we find ourselves today.
- Where we are today in conceptual and mental development, the understanding and the mental skills and practices we develop and on which we rely, their limits, contradictions and problematic human, social and ecological consequences.
- The direction we need to take individually and as a species in conceptual and mental development to address the conditions and problems we face, change the historical path of human development and sustain human existence in equitable ways in changing conditions and narrowing natural parameters within the boundaries set by nature.
The Program presents an approach to human understanding beyond religion, philosophy and science to set the conceptual and mental conditions for managing existence in equitable and sustainable ways in changing conditions and narrowing natural parameters. It offers a different view of the fundamentals and principles of the nature and conditions, of comprehending and managing human existence and human development and the nature and causes, answers and solutions to the conditions and problems we face. The Program provides a conceptual framework to understand, and differentiate and distinguish between natural and socio-cultural conditions and developments and between individual and social-collective reality and conditions, needs and challenges. A conceptual framework to differentiate and distinguish between natural conditions and change that lie beyond human control to which we must respond and adjust, and socio-cultural conditions and developments, which are the product of human choices, decisions and actions for which we must take responsibility and which must be corrected where they contradict and conflict with and fall short in responding to natural conditions and demands of existence. The Program offers a conceptual framework to differentiate and distinguish between social-collective and individual conditions, order and stability and contradictions and conflicts between them.
Who Should Participate
The Program is designed for those intent on developing their own understanding and mental skills and practices as a necessary first step in dealing with persisting and growing human, social and environmental conditions and problems locally and globally, and to set the conceptual and mental conditions to sustain human existence in changing conditions and narrowing natural parameters within the limits defined by nature. The Program is designed for those who see current efforts to be limited, with traditional and contemporary approaches concentrating primarily on symptoms, consequences and crises, instant relieve and short and medium term measures without touching on more fundamental and deeper rooted problems and causes and considering long term change. Moreover, concentrating in the main on physical-material and social-collective conditions and developments at the expense of human conceptual and mental conditions and development.
The Program is designed for those interested in moving beyond the conceptual limits and shortcomings of conventional understanding and practice and the limits of their own understanding through individual conceptual and mental development and growth.
The IHCMD Online Study and Training Program will be of interest to those concerned with the direction of human development and comprehending and managing human existence in equitable and sustainable ways in changing conditions and narrowing natural parameters within the limits set by nature. It will benefit those with an interest and concerned, and those actively engaged in dealing with persisting and growing human, social, economic, and environmental conditions and problems, in education (both educators and students), in academia and science, in international development, public policy, in NGOs and social movements. The Program will be of interest to those concerned with issues of peace, social and economic justice and equality, human rights, sustainable development, education and human, cultural, social, economic, scientific and technological development and change. The Program should be of special interest to educators, teachers and trainers.
Information and Registration
There are no educational or professional prerequisites to participate. The Program is offered free of charge, but registration is limited. For more details and registration information see the IHCMD web site at <http://www.ncf.ca/~ab097/ihcmd.htm> or contact Dr. Axel Dorscht at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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Dr. Axel Dorscht | Institute for Human Conceptual
Tel: 1-613-233-8354 | and Mental Development (IHCMD)
Fax: 1-613-233-8354 (call first) | 9 Second Avenue, Suite 2
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ottawa, ON K1S 2H2 Canada
Website: http://www.ncf.ca/~ab097/ihcmd.htm
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