Dr. bird's
Online Courses
Why We Are Like This
What you'll learn:
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What Dr. bird's framework of Critical Media Ecology is.
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How a Critical Media Ecological approach will raise your awareness.
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How to apply a Critical Media Ecological approach in your day to day life.
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How to conduct a Critical Media Ecological audit of your work / life.
Requirements:
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Open mindedness.
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Being alive on earth.
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The courage to breathe, reflect, and feel.
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Gaining access to a print, ebook, or audio format of We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It.
Description:
Are you sick and tired of being sick are tired? Are you lonely, broke, afraid, and ready to make some sort of change(s), but (truth be told) you don't even know where to start? Have you ever wondered how societal horrors like ICE (kidnapping, detaining, or executing innocent folks in the streets) and/or the Epstein files could have and continue to happen?
Welcome to Critical Media Ecology 101 with Dr. bird! In this course, Dr. bird overviews their applied framework "critical media ecology," revealing how and why certain ways of thinking and being have become taken for granted "normal," in our day to day lives, workplaces, and governmental institutions, as well as why our current community members, organizations, and systems often do not solve fundamental problems within united states society, but, instead, reinforce them.
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Required Text (print, ebook, or audiobook):
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This course is asynchronous / at your own pace and designed for individuals (creatives, authorities/experts, or professionals of any kind) who want to expand their personal awareness, embody their authenticity, and make sense of Why We Are Like This in the envirusment era, as well as organizations who want to brainstorm what we have the power to do together. It is especially made for folks interested in connecting preexisting knowledge with ecological rigor, expanding Our transformative potentialities in pursuit of liberation for all.
Who this course is for:
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Anyone curious to learn about Dr. bird's applied Critical Media Ecological framework.
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Anyone looking to raise their critical, mediated, and ecological awareness in pursuit of liberation for all.
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Folks who have suffered, do not feel heard or seen, and are not sure Why We Are Like This.
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Folks inside or outside the u.s. who are wondering What We Can Do About It.
What We Can Do About It
What you'll learn:
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What Our lived experiences offer.
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How to take ownership for Our actions.
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What We Can Do About It (the current state of the world).
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That being "the bad guy" for liberation is the right thing to do.
Requirements:
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Critical media ecology 101
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Comfort with cussing as a part of your learning process.
Description:
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Please be advised: This course includes cussing as an enacted means of deconstructing respectability politics and embodying (un)professionalism in pursuit of liberation for all. For more, please see the explicitly stated prerequisites of this course.
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Are you sick and tired of how things are going? Have you ever quietly not agreed with the dominant way of doing things? Or, maybe, you've begun to garner the courage to actually disagree out-loud (kindly, or not) and you'd quickly found out that most of the folks around you Did Not Like you doing That -- AT ALL (LOL), but...deep down...you know you did the right thing.
Either way -- you've come to the right course, my friend! My name is Dr. bird and I, too, have commonly been cast as "the bad guy". But, like most any white person born and raised in the u.s., I Did Not start there. I began by being the bad guy -- For Real.
And -- truth be told -- it took me decades of nervous system dysregulated conformism, violences, heavy drinking, disassociation, distraction, and, ultimately, escapist overworked burnout to acknowledge the ways that I have taken part in normalized violences.
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Required Texts (print, ebook, or audiobook):
I have been the bad guy & On being "the bad guy"
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In this virtual (at your own pace / asynchronous) space, I'll tell you stories of ways that I was raised, what I learned, survived, and how I made choices to change, offering ways you might too. In other words, I'll teach you my "Dr. bird's eye view", how I changed over time, and walk you through reflection exercises to help you name your own experiences as forms of knowledge, contextualize them in up-to-date societal and historical findings about the u.s., as well as offer you encouragement to embrace being seen as "the bad guy" -- For Liberation.
Who this course is for:
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u.s. folks who are open to uncomfortable self- and societal reflection(s).
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Folks anywhere on the planet who realize that we all deserve/d better than This Sh*t.
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Cool, smart, good humored folks ready to make liberatory ecological change(s).