ENSb1314 Resilience in times of environmental crisis - self-development group

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Václav Wortner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Fri 27. 10. 10:00–15:40 U35, Fri 8. 12. 10:00–15:40 U35
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 9/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The objectives of the course can be divided into three sub-goals: 1. To acquaint students with the principles of work in the so-called thematically focused development group and partly also with the principles of supporting group dynamics. 2. Strengthen the resilience of course participants to the psychological effects of the environmental crisis through - mapping the emotional response to the environmental crisis and working with it, sharing coping strategies, understanding their own defenses and working with them, etc. 3. To acquaint participants with the principles of work in the gestalt therapeutic approach and its possible application to the issue of environmental mourning and other responses to the environmental crisis.
Learning outcomes
Upon completing the course, the student will be able to:
Understand their emotions and identify their connection to physical symptoms;
Comprehend their network of fundamental relationships, what each element of the relationship network provides and mediates, and be able to articulate desires towards individual members of their basic relationship network;
Map their various "selves," be aware of which of their selves are in harmony with themselves and which require further integrative work, will be aware of the dialogue between different parts of the "self" and will be able to search for the real needs of unintegrated "selves";
Understand the difference between group dynamics in experiential education mode vs. thematic group and working with themes, dynamic group level 1 and dynamic group level 2, and besides the latter, also experience it;
Grasp the contact cycle and its various stages including the "brakes" that may be present in them;
Understand the development of environmental grief and its individual parts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Group introduction, group rules, initial work in smaller groups, basic information about the course.
  • 2. Emotions and their world. I. The structure of emotions. Basic emotions. Mapping basic emotions and their messages. How we "release" emotions and how big our outlet is for releasing individual emotions. Parasitic emotions.
  • 3. Emotions and their world. I. The environmental crisis and my emotional world.
  • 4. Close relationships and mapping them in pairs. 5 dimensions of close relationships. The kind of close relationships I want and the ones I have. What I gain from my network of close relationships.
  • 5. Me and my selves I. Working with my selves. What integration means and two types of integrating. Working in pairs.
  • 6. Me and my selves II. Which "selves" are connected to the environmental crisis or my relationship with nature? Where do they find allies?
  • 7. The contact cycle and my "stops" in it. What the contact cycle entails. Why and how we get stuck in it. What is the emptiness of the contact cycle?
  • 8. The first thematic group - how I work with environmental anger, sadness, burnout.
  • 9. The second thematic group - what is the dialogical principle in communication and how I work with it.
  • 10. A taste of dynamic group work and its events. I.
  • 11. Meta-positions and their role in group events. What is a meta-position. Meta-position as a good servant but a bad master.
  • 12. A taste of dynamic group work and its events II.
  • 13. Closing the group. Farewell. Searching for the meaning of what happened.
Teaching methods
Elements of experiential education, working with emotions, mapping relationship patterns and structures, working in small groups, dynamics of the thematic group, Gestalt techniques, Gestalt experiment, dynamic group work of the first level
Assessment methods
just full attendence at course
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Teacher's information
all info during first lesson
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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