Feeling for Reality:
Developing Skills of Felt Perception in the Waldorf High School
Course will be run twice - once in person and once online - please register for only one session
IN PERSON
When: July 8-12, 2024: 5 day IN-PERSON intensive
Location: Mount Mary University, 2900 N Menomonee River Pkwy, Milwaukee, WI
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9 to 5 CT daily, with some evening sessions
Single Registration: $950
Discounts (may not be combined):
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$75 off each registration for schools sending 2 or more participants
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25% off payments made with Canadian dollars
Travel and Lodging Information
Register here for in-person course
Minimum registration requirement: 10 students
ONLINE
When: July 15-19, 2024: 5 day ONLINE intensive
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 10 to 5 CT daily, with some evening sessions
Single Registration: $650
Discounts (may not be combined):
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$50 off each registration for schools sending 2 or more participants
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25% off payments made with Canadian dollars
Register here for online course
Minimum registration requirement: 15 students
Course Description
Feelings connect us to the living world and to each other, but they can also cut us off from what’s real. Nowhere are feelings more in flux than in the teen years! In the throes of strong feelings, teens traverse the inner extremes, pushing against those around them, taking on new postures and perspectives. Friendships and relationships roil them, social media platforms toy with their sympathies and antipathies, and inner doubts draw them to uncharted depths. Learning to ride these emotional waves, to find inner balance and insight, is a central task of adolescence–and one for which they need guidance. How can we as teachers, parents, and mentors help them learn the power of their felt perception?
In this summer professional development course, the second in a series of three (last summer was “Thinking with Heart”), we will explore ways to meet students where they are–lost in the emotional sauce–and provide them tools to experience their feelings with awakened thinking and intentional action. Using arts, humanities, and sciences as entry points, this course will help awaken in teenagers a “feeling for reality,” a power to understand and contribute authentically to the living world around them. As adults in their lives, we also need to stretch and strengthen our feelings, and this course is meant to support our inner development as well!
Central Themes
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Understanding social-emotional development through the teen years
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Infusing emotional and sensorial richness into high school lessons
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Effects of social media and ways to mediate it
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Feeling as a form of cognition
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Dynamics of identity formation
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Building spaces of belonging and awakening
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Skills for constructive and empathic communication, restorative practices, and self-reflection
Course Instructors
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