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Each of the courses in the Certificate Program is available separately to people who do not wish to earn a Certificate. However, certain courses require certain other courses as prerequisites (the first course listed above is a prerequisite for the second; the second is a prerequisite for all of the others; and course 4 is a prerequisite for course 5). A more detailed description of each of the courses in the Certificate Program follows:
SYSTEMIC UNDERSTANDING
An intensive introduction to the work of Gregory Bateson and Humberto R. Maturana, this course explores a) the nature of a truly holistic and systemic world view, b) the place where science, philosophy, art, spirit, and daily life meet, c) how to identify the implicit presuppositions in any field of human endeavor, d) the dynamics of personal and social change, e) how to be whole--and how to recognize when you are not, f) the origins and nature of humanness--and what to do to preserve it, and g) what it entails to live nondualistically. Reading includes portions of three books by Bateson, and four essays by Maturana.
This course is a prerequisite for all other Crazy Tiger Institute courses.
EXPLORATIONS IN SYSTEMIC UNDERSTANDING
An experiential laboratory for deepening the understandings gained in "Systemic Understanding," this course focuses on daily-life experience, enriched by a small amount of reading. Topics include ethics, aesthetics, the sacred, implicit contexts, emotion, language, ecological determinism, the epistemology immanent in assorted animals and plants, Responsibility and Freedom, constitutive and transcendental ontologies and their roles in human interaction, and other topics that emerge in discussion--all with a view to strengthening holistic systemic epistemological habits and deepening systemic understanding. The course also enlivens participants’ experience and understanding of what it means to explore. Reading includes an essay by Herbert Brun, a novel by Joanne Greenberg, Konrad Lorenz’s King Solomon’s Ring, and essays by Gregory Bateson and Humberto R. Maturana.
Prerequisite for this course: "Systemic Understanding."
ART AS A MANNER OF LIVING:
FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING SYSTEMIC DESIGN
This course explores a) the relationship between Art and the act of integrating, b) the activities of living diversity and generating imaginative space, c) the art of triggering experience, and d) the understanding of Art as a manner of living which arises when we distinguish previously confused phenomenal domains and find ourselves inviting ourselves and others to the experience of Responsibility and Freedom. This exploration is undertaken with a view to providing a firm foundation for an understanding of the nature of genuinely holistic and systemic designing. The course consists of a combination of experiential exercises and theoretical discussion, and includes readings by Gregory Bateson, Martin Buber, E. E. Cummings, Rodney E. Donaldson, T. S. Eliot, Humberto R. Maturana, and Heinz Von Foerster.
Prerequisite for this course: "Explorations in Systemic Understanding."
LIVING SYSTEMIC DESIGN:
AN INTENSIVE PRACTICUM
This course is a laboratory for hands-on practice in Living Systemic Design, both individual and collaborative, as well as for further reflection on the nature of Art, integration, invitation, recursion, the implicit, Responsibility, Freedom, and the act of triggering. Participants learn how to tighten their designs by the use of implicit constraints, and enact a variety of designs, discussing the implications of each for a robust understanding of Living Systemic Design. Reading includes works by Mary Catherine Bateson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joanne Greenberg, and Humberto R. Maturana.
Prerequisite for this course: "Art as a Manner of Living."
EMOTION, ETERNITY, & THE IMPLICIT:
EXPLORATIONS IN LANGUAGE & LOVE
An intensive practicum in the experience of Freedom, this course examines selected invitations to the Eternal Present, while simultaneously exploring a) the emotional roots of language and humanness, and b) the nature of discerning, and operating in, the implicit. While practicing attending to the implicit, participants examine the work of William Blake and Martin Buber in the light of Second Order Cybernetics, read selected works by Rodney E. Donaldson, Humberto R. Maturana, and Stephen Mitchell, and explore the relationship between fear, Freedom, forgiveness, Error, transcendental ontologies, Acceptance, and descriptive and orientative understandings of language.
Prerequisite for this course: "Explorations in Systemic Understanding."
READING CIRCLES
These courses focus on selected works by important theorists (especially Humberto R. Maturana and Gregory Bateson), and consist of reading these works together and discussing each line for deeper understanding. Past participants have experienced enormous leaps in their grasp of Maturana and Bateson through this process.
Prerequisite for reading circles: "Explorations in Systemic Understanding."
SEMINAR INTEGRATING ALL ASPECTS OF
LIVING SYSTEMIC UNDERSTANDING & DESIGN
This course integrates all the dimensions of Living Systemic Understanding & Design covered in the previous courses, explores questions which remain, offers hands-on culminating practice in multidimensional Living Systemic Design, and in general responds to participants’ individual and collective desires with respect to rounding out their work in the Certificate Program.
Prerequisite for seminar: all the courses listed above."
IN ADDITION TO THE COURSES OFFERED IN THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM, there are from time to time other courses, including
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