Story of Gaia

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Logistics

  • Each course is composed of ~10 hours of lectures with ample discussion time plus optional extra outdoor "lab" time. Those hours can be distributed in periods ranging from 1 weekend (or any 2-day period) to 1 week to 1 month. Activity hours extend from over a 4 hour period of lecture (main), lab & discussion (optional), but participants are offered choices into what components they choose. 

  • A typical schedule or an afternoon/evening class looks like this:

    • 5 - 6:30 pm : discussion or field trip (optional)

    • 6:30 - 8:30 pm : lectures with Q&A or discussions
      (depending on class)

    • 8:30 - 9:00 pm : extended discussion (optional)

  • Each is extensible to 6, 8, 10 or 12 days/weeks to cover 1.5, 2, 2.5 or 3 times the information, respectively.

  • All are also expandable into existing advanced courses that will add much depth to each topic.

  • The full set addresses all core principles of systems sciences, Gaia theory & climate change. Topics within each course are woven into a whole, & each course is part of the story told by the set. They can be studied concurrently or sequentially in any order.

Costs

  • Courses will "make" (run) when the total contribution from all students combined reaches $100/hour. (This is the price for individuals; please contact me for rates for organizations, businesses & schools.)

  • NOTE: The price of $100 per hour does not mean that each person will pay that much. It means that in order for a seminar, course or workshop to run, that much (or more) per hour must be contributed as a total
    from all participants combined.

  • Typical costs to individuals, therefore, range from an average of $5/hr to $20 per hour per person for enrollments of 5 or more students. (See table below for examples.) Thus, the more participants there are in any given class, the lower an individual's fee will be. You can help lower your class fee by recruiting people from your community to take part in the class with you.

  • Examples

     Student number
    		 Average fee per hour per student
     20    $5
     10    $10
     5    $20
     2    $50

  • Participant number is limited to 20.

  • Sufficient commitments required by the first day of class, to insure that the full class will run. However, even if a class does not "make" due to insufficient enrollment, students can still contract with me to teach a shorter class.