Course Materials Overview
Be The Change Curriculum
An expansive selection of material is being compiled for circle curriculum options. It will include a film module from Global Oneness Project, and an experiential process for exploration of your passion and purpose designed by What's Your Tree? the Julia Butterfly Hill organization. The foundation of our curriculum is provided by a set of course readers published by Northwest Earth Institute. Circle participants choose one topic for the circle module, and a course reader that will be their focus of dialogue during the circle meetings. Be The Change is honoured to be in collaboration with the organizations producing these materials.
Choices for Sustainable Living
explores the meaning of sustainable living and the impact of lifestyle choices on ecological systems.
Menu for the Future
explores the connection between food and sustainability.
Voluntary Simplicity
addresses the distractions of modern society that keep us from caring for ourselves, our relationships, and the environment.
Healthy Children - Healthy Planet
discusses how the pervasive effects of advertising, media, and our consumer culture can influence a child's view of the world.
Discovering a Sense of Place
focuses on the values of bioregionalism.
Reconnecting With Earth
addresses core values and how they affect the way we view and treat the earth.
Global Warming: Changing CO2urse
explores the history and science of global warming, personal values and habits as they relate to climate change, and personal actions to curb the effects of global warming.
Sustainable Systems at Work
enables us to positively influence sustainable change in our workplace.
Global Oneness
focused on short films created by The Global Oneness Project, this module explores how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
What's Your Tree? - Living Your Passion & Purpose
there are many ways to contribute your unique talents, passion and life experience to The Great Turning that is underway. Julia Butterfly Hill and her organization offer this module of experiential processes for discovering your soul purpose.
Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos
integrates evolutionary theory and modern cosmology with Christian theology, placing environmental sustainability issues in a spiritual context.
The Great Turning Un-Conference - Circle Talks
design your own curriculum by choosing talks from speakers at the 2009 Great Turning Un-Conference. Actions recommended by participants at the 'un-conference' are included in our 2009 Action Guide and referenced in this outline.
