Joseph Chilton Pearce Symposium
Teacher: Michael Mendizza

The Death of Religion and Rebirth of Spirit
This online symposium explores human development as a transcendent evolutionary process. Using Joseph Chilton Pearce's new manuscript as a guide we will explore how culture limits and constrains true development. Participants will read and discuss each chapter, formulating three to five questions for Joe to respond to. The goal is to see if the major thesis being presented can be applied to our daily life and how this might open the way to greater personal and social growth and intelligent action.

Playing by Heart
Instructor: Fred DonaldsonInstructor: Michael Mendizza

Playing by Heart is both an all-embracing vision of reality and a practice of kindness, which permeates all of one?s relationships. Playing by Heart is to be in touch and to be touched deeply by our authentic human nature and the natural world. This class will explore this optimum state and share how it can be integrated into all aspects of family, community and professional life.

The Art of Playful Parenting
Instructor: Michael Mendizza

Our goal is to apply the psychology of optimum experience, what athletes call the Zone, researchers and the business community call Flow and what children call Play to parenting and to education. The six week, twelve lesson distant learning program will redefine the Zone, Flow and authentic Play as "transformational technologies" that optimize learning, performance and well being, at any age, in any field.