📣 Announcing: Embodied Ethics Course 🏋🏼♀️
With The Emerald's Josh Schrei, Innovator Andrew Dunn, & Special Guests
Hi there,
It’s an honor of mythic proportions to announce School of Wise Innovation’s first course offering: Embodied Ethics in the Age of AI: a five-part journey by The Emerald Podcast’s Josh Schrei and yours truly!
Our intention is to continue exploring the rich ideas and inquiries surfaced in the groundbreaking AI episode, with an added emphasis on practical integration into our products, organizations, and lives.
Enrollment is now open for the course, which begins January 25th and will center around five live virtual classes on Thursdays from 12-2pm PT. We’re also offering a variety of additional forms of engagement, from weekly office hours to pre-recorded guest lectures and an optional self-directed retreat day.
🏗️ Setting the Stage
This course is a beautiful next step of a process that began last winter break, when I joyfully binged The Emerald in search of inspiration for my work. I wrote about the full saga in 🥹 The Proudest Moment of My Career.
tldr: I later sought Josh’s counsel to help inform my work on technologist inner development, and make sense of the confusing AI moment. He provided more clarity than anybody in the conversation, which was packaged in the viral and disruptive media artifact: So You Want to be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers (The AI Episode).
I’ve put a lot of effort into elevating his voice in the tech and business worlds, because it strikes me as absent and necessary in the conversation and culture. Fresh analysis, perspective, tone and call to action. A depth of wisdom that is sorely needed today. Check out his talk at the recent Wisdom 2.0 AI Summit or these slides from the episode for a taste.
Within days of parting with Center for Humane Technology to work on School of Wise Innovation, Josh and I met in Santa Fe and envisioned a course to take these ideas to the next level.
For this first course, we’re going to dive deeper into five key themes from the podcast:
The Mythic Implications of AI
Individual Initiation in the Age of AI
Ecologies of Accountability
Re-prioritizing Slow Growth
Towards Embodied Intelligence
See more details about each session and enroll here.
In addition to producing the course, I’m delighted to play a translation / integration role, offering practical guidance on how do we actually incorporate this wisdom into our work and lives? From the perspective of a tech entrepreneur who has been trying to embody ethics and support others on that path for several years.
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Learn with Me
This is a hot topic in a dynamic time. We’re laying the conditions for a powerful experience that will further the thinking of the emerging wise innovation space. In many ways, this is the training I really need to support my own learning journey.
We’re going to learn a lot together, in company of maturing innovators who are gathering in search of a way forward.
Learn with Fellow Travelers
Can you help share this course with those who might be interested?
Tech, business, and media leaders in critical junctures of their development. Founders and executives, investors and philanthropists, rising leaders with a sense that something needs to change. Asking deeper questions, growing psycho-spiritual orientation, feeling obligated and/or motivated to take next steps on their journey towards greater alignment.
Those who support these professionals: coaches, therapists, healers, service providers
Please also considering sharing with your organization and relevant online communities you are connected to (and invite me to those communities too!).
Volunteer to Amplify Ideas
We’re welcoming support on converting quotes and ideas from the sessions into social media content, as well as the following activities that will support both the class and the school. Please get in touch if interested!
It’s an honor to host this conversation. I’ll be focusing the majority of my School of Wise Innovation energy in the next couple of months on seeing that this experience is impactful and nourishing for all.
Let me know if you have any questions, and best wishes for a restful, reflective holiday.
With gratitude,
Andrew