Navigating Our Evolving Consciousness (ZOOM ONLY)
Class - Spring Only | Registration opens Friday, January 3, 2025 9:30 AM MST
The original title of this course was “As a species, are we up to the challenges of our time?” The need to shorten that title led to ‘Navigating Our Evolving Consciousness” - which is about ways to grow personally and live constructively in our complex and rapidly changing world. The first title speaks to a question. The second speaks to the nature of the answer. Although we can’t predict our future, we are not powerless. How we choose to relate to the present world and care about what the future is calling for matters - and can be enlivening.
Rodney Dueck
I am a former physician and System Medical Director for a 500 physician multi-specialty medical group practice and hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I retired in 1999. My wife Pat and I have lived here in St. George since then.
Whether it be patient care or leadership responsibilities, my various roles gave me direct access to the soft underbelly of the human condition. Motivated by this experience I’ve studied for decades with intense curiosity about why we humans exhibit so much potential while yet so often are hobbled by conflict, why even doing the right thing can be so fraught with disagreement and resistance.
In our wider world we see examples of this dilemma every day in our political paralysis, polarization, uncertainty about the future of Constitutional Democracy and our increasingly existential climate crisis. In each case we have not yet found sufficient capacity or will for truly sustainable individual and collective change.
I wonder: Can we find enough common ground in order to see each other with less distortion and more respect? Can we live together in the same country with more connection, with mutual regard, and a shared desire for creative problem solving?