Learning Dog Module 1 and 2, Online – Wednesday – session 2
Learning Dog modules 1 and 2, in a small interactive group online (max 3).
Program set-up
The integration modules are dedicated to the relationship between dogs, dogs and human or other animals, and the understanding and preservation of a dog as subject, placed in a framework explaining the history of ethology, to understand how today’s filters can still be radically in place.
They are intense modules as you will be guided during online live-classes, by either Francesco De Giorgio or José De Giorgio through insights translated to what you recognise in your own daily life situations.
The complete change in paradigm in the way human look at, and understand, nonhuman animals, create space for a vital development of shared adventures, with those you share your life with. Participants therefor will be facilitated in understanding the study content as well as recognising the habits of daily life.
Learning Experience
Participants will have an insight in developments within animal studies in general, and in the pioneer position of Learning Animals / The Sparta Association, the importance of a paradigm change, how to recognise animal Otherness, and a personal development of observation skills and mixing in experiences. Students start learning to look beyond, and will start developing the awareness how nonhuman animals are involved in their own individual experience of the world, the importance of facilitating quality experiences in their own relationship dynamics.
Lessons will be held on Wednesdays (15:00-17:00 CET).
Contribution: 600 Euro for both Module 1 and 2. The following is included: 6 lessons (12 hours), individual follow up by email, between lessons, a textbook (PDF), and the Sparta Association membership (32 Euro) for 2022.
Module 1:
Animal Ethics in the interspecies relationship
Understanding otherness, The basic principles of the Animality Studies, The meaning of relationship between animal and human, Cognition, emotions and relationship, The socio-cognitive approach, The horse today: new insights from the horse point of view, The human today: from a different point of view, Ethics, ethology and the Learning Animals philosophy.
Dates:
Module 1 – session 1 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – March 16th
Module 1 – session 2 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – April 13th
Module 1 – session 3 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – May 11th
Module 2:
Principles of Cognitive Ethology and the necessity of an an5speciesist Ethology
History and aspects of ethology and cognitive ethology, The cognitive ethology of horses, as subjects and as species, Horses and wild equids, Equine cognition, The dominance hierarchy myth: what is wrong? Herd dynamics and relationships , Nuances and details of behavior, Social behaviour: the affiliative dimension.
Dates:
Module 2 – session 4 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – June 8th
Module 2 – session 5 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – July 6th
Module 2 – session 6 (interactive lesson of 2 hours) – August 3rd
Registration: Learning Dog
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