Studying community health and holistic healing
June 11, 2008
Hello, everyone, this is Genno trying to write a little more about my time in the Green Mountains in Vermont studying. In my last blog I introduced you to my summer of ‘85, when I studied at the ISE.
One of the courses that I took and enjoyed a lot was on community health and holistic healing. This course explored the forces that shape the health of both the individual person and the community. The class involved experimental, hands-on learning, field trips, class discussion and healing arts practitioners. The goal was to learn to sustain ourselves and become healthier in an ecological context. In the course of holistic health, we practiced hands-on learning in giving a massage as well as other forms of healing. We also explored green politics and urban agriculture, with evening lectures given by activists and faculty in their chosen fields.
Social ecology and the summer of ‘85
June 6, 2008
This is Genno checking in and trying to get started with a new blog. I have had some bad luck with my blogging but I am going to try again.
In the summer of ‘85 I signed up for classes with the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont, and connected to nearby Burlington College. I was looking for some college hours. The school is located in the Green Mountains. In registering for classes, everyone was required to take the course that was given by Murray Bookchin, founder of the school. The required course was an overview of social ecology — there were speakers who shared their expertise on social ecology in agriculture, feminism and holistic health, to name a few topics. The material was integrated to provide a coherent analysis through a series of talks by Bookchin.
