oases Community Learning Programs offer various events including a monthly breakfast program, workshops, seminars and celebrations. Many of our events are presented on integrated themes such as the Spiritual and Aesthetic.
Saturday Breakfasts: Conversations for Critical Times
First Saturday of every month, 9am - 12pm
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: 9819 3502
$20 waged/ $12 concession
http://www.oases.org.au
2 Minona Street Hawthorn
Dates and times may change so please be sure to book.
Phone +61 3 9819 3502 or email us
‘Sustainability, Wisdom and Religion’
2nd August 2008 Dr Lindsay Falvey
Lindsay was Dean and CEO of The Faculty of Land and Food Resources at the University of Melbourne. His interest in Buddhism, academic studies in agriculture, studies in the Methodist church and an ongoing international career in development have informed his most recent four books, which in different ways deal with wisdom, spirituality and the environment. He is a Fellow of the elite Academy of Technical Sciences, has received many international awards and serves on the Oases Council.
Lindsay will make his book ‘Sustainability, elusive or illusion’ available for the cost of a gold coin.
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September 6 2008: No breakfast - Everyone is invited to attend the Annual Oases Dinner at the Augustine Centre from 7pm.
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'Can we imagine another way of relating?'
4th October Dr. Jacques Boulet
After about thirty years as a ‘regular’ academic, Jacques became a founding member of Borderlands and of the oases Graduate School. He has been teaching in social work, community development, international development and social research, areas in which he continues to contribute in the program of Integrative and Transformative Studies. He will share his evolving thinking around our - sometimes desperate - need to develop a different grounding for our understanding and practicing of ‘human relationship’, one which is less based on the image of market exchange rationality and more on that of the ‘gift economy’. Participants will be invited to reflect on and discuss suggestions as to how this might change our understanding of community, family, the research relationship and our relationship with the non-human.
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‘The HMAS Sydney’, an account of national and personal loss'
1st November Dr. Robert Hoskin
One of Robert’s projects in his Visual Arts Degree was to reflect on his uncle’s untimely death aboard the HMAS Sydney by producing a book detailing the story of his life as a ship’s painter. Robert not only entered into a family loss but into the confluence of a national loss. Robert will provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our stories and how they intersect with national or international events.
Dr. Robert Hoskin is presently undertaking a Visual Arts degree at the Catholic University and also co-facilitates a unit at the OASES graduate school, ‘Myth-Mapping’ in which the participants explore their personal/family stories against a larger collective canvas.
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‘Transformative learning and social change'
29th November Dr. Daniel Schugurensky (special breakfast)
Daniel is program coordinator of the Centre for Transformative Learning in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. OISE has been known for a long time for its work in social justice, international solidarity and so on. OISE undertook work with Paulo Freire after his being exiled from Brazil and Chile in the early seventies and have made themselves a big name in participatory development, action research and community development and the role of education