2016/17 season details coming soon!
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Spring 2021, SYLLABUS
COURSE OUTLINE
This is a course in maximizing your potential. It will include: discussion of the biology and neuroscience of the brain, breath training to optimize your brain function and achieve Flow, an analysis of your skills and passions and identification of where they intersect, identifying what is the most important thing in your life-your guiding light, and creating a list of objectives to achieve your most important goal in life.
This is a course in maximizing your potential. It will include discussion of the biology and neuroscience of the brain, breath training to optimize your brain function and achieve flow, an analysis of your skills and passions and identification of where they intersect, identifying what is the most important thing in your life-your guiding light, and creating a list of objectives to achieve your most important goal in life.
Edward DeMore has been pivotal in enabling Boston to have the most robust technology infrastructure of any urban public school system in America. He is Founder & CEO of the Boston Global Bridge Institute and Overseer of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, and a member of the International Council at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Upon successful completion of this course you will have:
Upon successful completion of this course you will also have begun to learn the importance of:
COURSE APPROACH:
The course uses a variety of means to learn the arts of practice.
FORMAT AND REQUIREMENTS:
COURSE MATERIALS:
COURSE CALENDAR
The course Calendar lists the topics, readings, and learning activities that comprises this course on a weekly basis. These activities support the overall objectives and are required to successful completion of this course.
Weekly Reflections
Student required to a weekly document that addresses the specified questions each week and in which they reflect about their progress. All weekly essays should be maximum one page long (11 points, single space) and must be submitted by Friday 6pm before the next class. The Course Calendar lists the material and learning activities that comprise this course on a weekly basis. These are directly related to learning outcomes that support the overall course objectives.
Thursday, January 27
Class 1: Course Introduction
Purpose: We have two objectives, introducing ourselves to each other and reviewing the course syllabus and approach. The introductions will enable the instructor to model and refine the course to best serve student needs and goals.
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Thursday, February 3
Class 2: Meditation, Flow and Breathwork: Establishing a Practice
Purpose: Recognize the practice of meditation as a path to realization of human potential. Understand the associated changes in the mind and brain that stems from a rigorous practice. Identify the benefits of embedding this technique into everyday life.
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Thursday, February 10
Class 3: Flow, Beauty and Awe: Poetry, Visual Art, Music, Dance
Purpose: Recognize that discipline and conscious choices allow artists to achieve great outcomes. You can witness the powerful effect of watching others perform/create and appreciate the results of hours of focused concentration that merge into effortless and beautiful works of art. The cultivation of an aesthetic attitude opens us to losing ourselves in artistic production and liberates us from conformity.
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TThursday, February 17
Class 4: Compassionate and Ethical Relationships in a Diverse World
Purpose: Understand the relationship between breathwork and empathy development. Realize the importance of expanding your universe to accept and value differences. Acknowledge the brain modifications derived from a long-term practice of compassion and empathy.
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Thursday, February 24
Class 5: Your Personal Exploration of Your Skills, Curiosities, Passion, and Aspiration
Purpose: Expand your capacity to conduct introspective examinations. Align the visualization of your purposes with your outcomes through breathwork. Consider the usefulness of checking your goals periodically in your life. Appreciate the neurochemical alterations that grow out of an achiever’s mind.
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Thursday, March 3
Class 6: Optimizing Well-Being
Purpose: Comprehend how well-being changes the brain. Extend mindful meditation benefits into care and respect for your body. Boost your human potential by cultivating discipline and a sense of honor to your physical being.
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Thursday, March 10
Class 7: Your Life Plan to Optimize Your Human Potential & Live A Fully and Deeply Engaged Life
Purpose: Be aware of the power of vulnerability and let your inner self get empowered by drafting and presenting your Life Plan.
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Thursday, March 17
Class 8: Your Life Plan to Optimize Your Human Potential & Live A Fully and Deeply Engaged Life
Purpose: Be aware of the power of vulnerability and let your inner self get empowered by drafting and presenting your Life Plan.
Assignments:
With one of the tallest buildings – and most spectacular views – in town, the Hugh’s View rooftop terrace serves as The Studios’ creative space in the sky. The terrace sits four stories above street level and offers panoramic views of the island. The Kitwald Stage glows in the golden twilight of our sunset performances.
With original seating from its days as a Masonic temple, the Helmerich Theater has been updated to also include floor seating. As a black box theater, the set up is intimate but professional, and sets the stage for concerts and performances that leave guests feeling like they really got to know the performer.