

The Center for Holistic Education is located in the Education Department of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR.Want some free land and help building a straw house? A New Brunswick couple want to give both to you. They’re trying to build their rural community and want new neighbours.

During the 70’s Gang helped form a group to explore Montessori’s concept of “Erdkinder” – learning environments for adolescents. Program founders Philip Snow Gang and Marsha Snow Morgan both earned their teaching credentials in Bergamo, Italy when it was the only place worldwide where one could learn the Montessori method for children between the ages of six and twelve. The TIES M.Ed roots date back to the 1990’S when Philip Snow Gang founded the Global Alliance for Education. The seminal document, Education 2000: A Holistic Perspective became the principles on which The TIES program was organized.

This is the central insight that guides the Concentration in Transformative Learning Communities (TLC) – providing a learning environment where each learner can engage in their own process of self-authoring, within a self-renewing learning community of colleagues and faculty mentors. This program is centered on the understanding that we have the capacity to author our own lives from a place of resourcefulness, creativity, and possibility. In the context of learning in community, we access collective wisdom, rejuvenation, and resiliency in support of diversity and equity.Īntioch University’s MA in Individualized Studies, Social Sciences is proud to offer a concentration in Transformative Learning Communities, in partnership with the Transformative Learning Foundation. While learning begins with the individual, it is also centered on the understanding that human beings live within webs of living systems: family community ethnic, religious, and national groups humanity ecological niche, bioregion, and planet. Within these containers, previously held patterns and frameworks are unlearned and re-organized into deeper meanings that inform one’s identity and action in the world in new ways. We create safe learning environments to support transformational learning and deepened self-awareness. Our current education system is out of step with the needs of learners and what they must know to be able to develop their gifts and talents to their fullest potential and make meaningful contributions to society. In the past 20 years, there has been greater emphasis on compliance, following the prescribed curriculum, direct instruction, and standardized testing. Since the beginning of compulsory education, the definition of what learning looks like has become increasingly narrow with each passing decade. The Transformative Learning Foundation is a leading facilitator for wisdom in education, awakening potential for the evolution of our consciousness.
