Masters of Integrative and Transformative Studies

I will be starting a Masters of Integrative and Transformative Studies 

next week at the Oases Graduate School.

From their website:

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As A Participant In The Program You Will:

- Develop frameworks for social, environmental and personal sustainability.
- Work with and influence processes of social change.
- Engage multiple ways of learning and knowing, through the mind, imagination, heart and body.
- Become more conscious of the choices you make every day and reflect on their ecological, aesthetic, social, spiritual, ethical and other implications.
- Maintain integrity in situations that challenge your convictions and assumptions.
- Sustain spirit in the midst of potentially dispiriting social and ecological realities.
- Create learning moments in your everyday life.


At the core of the program are ongoing Integrative Conversations, creating spaces where you debrief, engage with, reflect on and share your learning and practice with other course participants and course facilitators.

Four other interconnected units (each of 4 days) in first year provide entries into the core foundational pools of knowledge which weave through all other units:


- Ecological; Remembering, discovering and enacting our part in nature
- Aesthetic; Becoming alive to the senses and wonder
- Social; Revisiting relationship – how did we become the way we are?
- Spiritual; Renewing and transcending our inner worlds

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My current intention is to do a systematic exploration, over the course of my Masters, of Developmental Justice.... that is, to explore waves of possibility around the metaphor of "justice" that include and go beyond materialist formations of justice... in other words, to include materialist formations (e.g. social justice discourse around economics and the regulation of bodies), AND also conceptions of justice which involve the (interplay between the) psycho-spiritual (e.g. the evolution of consciousness through its various states and stages of manifestation and dissolution), the ecological (e.g. the "world" of the cosmos and its history, which conditions and is conditioned by our sociality), and the aesthetic (e.g. the justice that is enabled through the radical practice of music, art, play, and not simply through a retrospective discourse on these)...