TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIA

Transformative Media Creation & Reception

Designing and Creating Transformative Media Experiences for Self, Other and World

Join us for the Media Shaman 101 Course

With most of the planet reeling from this pandemic, we are facing major shifts in ways of being, interacting and engaging with self, others and the world. We at the Integral Cinema Project and Campus Co-Evolve are rising to meet this moment by offering a redesigned version of our popular media learning journey.

Transformative Media Creation and Reception is for aspiring and accomplished change makers who want to learn how to use media to extend and deepen their efforts to create transformation in self, other and world. It will illuminate a comprehensive toolkit for designing media to catalyze healing, personal growth and the evolution of consciousness on an individual and collective level. No previous media-making experience is required.

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Learning Journey Objectives

In this learning journey we will learn about the co-evolutionary relationship between moving-image-based communication media, consciousness, culture and society. We will unpack the ways these media can be used as a driving force for individual and collective healing, growth, and revolutionary and evolutionary change and transformation. We will also be exploring how to consciously create and receive moving image works as a transformative practice for self, other and world through the development of both individual and group projects.

At its heart, this learning journey is an operating system upgrade for your perceptual field of awareness. Master media makers, artists, inventors and innovators all have an expanded perceptual field which gives them the capacity to see more than we ever saw before and help open us to previously uncharted territories of our existence. This learning journey is designed to use media to help us reprogram our brains to make our perceptual field itself an object in our awareness. As we expand and deepen our perceptual capacities in this way, we can potentially accelerate the evolution of our consciousness and increase our capacity to more astutely navigate these challenging times.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this learning journey you will:

Testimonials

“Four key things I carry away with me, all start with a ‘C’. Content which was extraordinarily rich with frameworks, expertise & knowledge passed on from Mark & Jonathan. I still feel I am holding it in in some container spaces, a repository of information to dive into and to make use of moving forward. Collective intelligence, a group coming together to learn with people of very diverse backgrounds, experience, culture but with a common intention, to change the world for the better, and even different levels of progress. Collective intelligence has fed back in a way which would not have happened if we had studied separately. Connection between participants was very strong in all of the various sessions. Container space was so well crafted. It was organic and fluid, for good peer to peer learning, deep respect, allowing diving into very safe and personal spaces, very strong.” – Rachel Hentsh, Italy

“Through the rich course content and expert guidance of visionary Mark Allan Kaplan, and Jonathan Steigman, I have come away from this journey with a renewed understanding of audience engagement, and a more perceptive respect of the vital force for healing and change we have in media, and our responsibility as filmmakers, story tellers, while also having expanded my own worldview and perceptual field.” – Gina Bonmariage, ex-Dean, AFDA (Film School) South Africa

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Learning Guides

Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D. is an independent award-winning filmmaker and the pre-eminent theorist and practitioner of the application of Integral Theory to the cinematic arts. 

Jonathan Steigman is a Bay Area activist, filmmaker, magician, communication consultant and independent researcher.

Schedule

Start Date: 25th January 2021      End Date: 11 May 2021

What is included and time requirements

This learning journey is divided into 5 modules. 

In each module, you will participate in one or two live, real-time teaching sessions and one reversed classroom (see our FAQ), where you will jointly share the findings of your discovery teams with the whole cohort, via Zoom video conference. 

In each module, you will also have opportunity for personal consultations with the instructor and asynchronous collaboration with your discovery team and the rest of the cohort. 

The cohort’s journey will also be supported by a Protopia Knowledge Garden, a dynamic repository of written and audio-visual materials organized in “garden patches” that correspond to the focus of our modules.

This course meets once a week for 16 weeks. As the course progresses, we will also be adding a Community of Practice meeting once a week. These are not mandatory but we strongly encourage everyone to attend those as well.

According to our alumni, the successful completion of our learning journeys requires, on average, 8 hrs/week dedicated to your study, including one class per week of 90 minutes, a Community of Practice session per week of 90 minutes, and then self-study or group/team work.