BGO-21: Life Encounters and Relationships

BGO-21: Life Encounters and Relationships – Individual and Community

Exploring the impact of people, places and situations

The people who shaped you — and the ones you shape. Encounters with people, places and situations form us, beginning with the role models we meet in childhood and adolescence.
The Foundation Course provides the first lens to look at life journeys, by remembering and collecting the facts. This second lens explores a personal life story through the lens of significant encounters – family experiences, friendships in childhood and adolescence, intimate relationships, work relationships. Learn about developmental phases in a relationship. Examine concepts of masculinity and femininity, anima and animus, and the limitations of these polarities. Learn about the spiritual dimension of polarity and gender as a developmental challenge.

Topics include

The Foundation Course provides the first lens to look at life journeys, by remembering and collecting the facts.
This second lens explores a personal life story through the lens of significant encounters –
- family experiences
- friendships in childhood and adolescence
- intimate relationships
- work relationships.
Learn about significance of attachment theory in unfolding relationships.
Learn about developmental phases in a relationship.
Examine concepts of masculinity and femininity, anima and animus, and the limitations of these polarities.
Learn about the spiritual dimension of polarity and gender as a developmental challenge.

Online group-work explores

Family of origin — role models, puberty and the first separation, with coin sociograms of your birth constellation and childhood years.
Falling in love and separating — attachment and detachment, ideals and idols.
Living together — partnership, life partnership, marriage and family, with the Recognition ‘I see you’ exercise.
A self- and identity audit — what you have learnt about yourself as a person.
Relationship sociograms — placing yourself and others by closeness, from chosen perspectives.
Ideal community — why community, the need for change, and a vision for old age.

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Study Guide: 155 pages
Recorded Lectures: 8
Suggested Reading, Journalling, Creative Activities
Independent Study: 40 hours, self-paced
Fee: 90 AUD – counts towards the full course
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Add Facilitated Group-work

15 hours real-time online, in small groups of 3 to 5
Offered once every year – see Course Dates
Fee: 290 AUD – full course 380 AUD
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