“This class has so deeply impacted my life and outlook, and this is a blessing that I will be graced with for the rest of my life. My entire way of thinking has shifted for the better. I have never felt such freedom with intellectual discussion and expression. The past couple of months have revived my relationship with the world around me. The value of this thinking far surpasses the work done in a classroom - I will be thinking toward a thriving planet (which is to say thinking about life as it manifests in all avenues, considering the art of relation, and lingering in the beauty of each moment ) for a lifetime.”
“Building a deeper introspective pathway between my environment and self, I've been able to explore the world with more intention and drive. I feel this class not only teaches a curriculum but also helped me extend myself into a community. I was invited to reimagine compassion, language, and quality of attention.”
“Thinking about Encounter and the work we have been doing in this class has changed my life. I went into this semester broken. I was fully planning on dropping out and didn’t think I would make it past the 3-week mark. Our time with encounter, however, has taught me I can choose to mourn my life and my world as I understand it, or I can choose to encounter and relate and learn.
These texts and discussions inspire me to bring myself to truthfully consider my thinking and practices, and to revisit and revise them in ways I forgot that I could. This class has provided me with the terminology to explain what I so love about the world- it describes the radical contingency of our lives. It becomes a window to the inevitable connections that ultimately define our being.”
“This class oversees the transformative nature of education and applies past concrete curriculum to a personal level of involvement. Through this I was able to learn from myself, of myself, and of others. To truly be educated is to be able to tie together not only the lessons I've learned but the actual application of them, which is something I have truly learned and practiced in this class. This class has overall been the most life changing and perspective enhancing course I have taken here at CSU. “
