Serena Anderlini
Dr. SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, is an expert in the ecology of love.
Her oeuvre has bridged gaps and opened pathways between the world of academic research and the knowledge that emanates from communities that practice love in ways that are open, conscious, holistic, fluid and inclusive.
A teacher of #EcosexualLove, and a leader of the eco-sexual movement, she has taught, lived, facilitated, studied, and written in California, Puerto Rico, Oregon, Hawaii, Thailand, India, Sweden, France, Estonia, and many Italian regions. Exploring the world, she decided to make every decade of her life a more exciting, stimulating, generous and lively period than the previous ones.
Author of multiple books, teacher, scholar, leader, naturist, activist, partner, lover, healer, filmmaker, curator, and cultural theorist, Dr. SerenaGaia co-edited the collection Ecosexuality (2015), and co-directed the film Playa Azul I Love You (2016). "Her prophetic books," including Eros (2006) and Gaia (2009), "have inspired readers and readers around the world," writes Dr. Susan M. Block.
An erstwhile Professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Dr. SerenaGaia is a sex-positive educator and has been involved in the ecovillage movement since 2005. She gave the keynote speech at the Ecosex Symposium in 2012 and at Loving More in 2007. She presented at GEN in 2017 and 2018.
She was trained in Tantra, Tao, sexual expression, health and holistic massage, in addition to her doctorate in comparative literary, cultural, and humanistic studies. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
The practice of holistic health is at the base of her vibrant well-being. She prefers vegetarian diets and her daily practices include meditation, yoga, and the Tao.
Dr. SerenaGaia believes that "a world where it is safe to love there is a world where it is safe to live," and intends to create this world with her sacred activism.
Phone: +393294779406
Her oeuvre has bridged gaps and opened pathways between the world of academic research and the knowledge that emanates from communities that practice love in ways that are open, conscious, holistic, fluid and inclusive.
A teacher of #EcosexualLove, and a leader of the eco-sexual movement, she has taught, lived, facilitated, studied, and written in California, Puerto Rico, Oregon, Hawaii, Thailand, India, Sweden, France, Estonia, and many Italian regions. Exploring the world, she decided to make every decade of her life a more exciting, stimulating, generous and lively period than the previous ones.
Author of multiple books, teacher, scholar, leader, naturist, activist, partner, lover, healer, filmmaker, curator, and cultural theorist, Dr. SerenaGaia co-edited the collection Ecosexuality (2015), and co-directed the film Playa Azul I Love You (2016). "Her prophetic books," including Eros (2006) and Gaia (2009), "have inspired readers and readers around the world," writes Dr. Susan M. Block.
An erstwhile Professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Dr. SerenaGaia is a sex-positive educator and has been involved in the ecovillage movement since 2005. She gave the keynote speech at the Ecosex Symposium in 2012 and at Loving More in 2007. She presented at GEN in 2017 and 2018.
She was trained in Tantra, Tao, sexual expression, health and holistic massage, in addition to her doctorate in comparative literary, cultural, and humanistic studies. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
The practice of holistic health is at the base of her vibrant well-being. She prefers vegetarian diets and her daily practices include meditation, yoga, and the Tao.
Dr. SerenaGaia believes that "a world where it is safe to love there is a world where it is safe to live," and intends to create this world with her sacred activism.
Phone: +393294779406
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This is part of the First Edition of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a poly Planet (2009).
The new revised edition is coming up soon.
Meanwhile, enjoy this one.
This is part of the First Edition of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet (2009).
The second revised edition is coming up soon.
Meanwhile, enjoy this one!
This is part of the First Edition of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet (2009).
The new revised edition will be coming soon.
Meanwhile enjoy this one!
This is part of the First Edition of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet (2009).
The new edition revised edition is coming soon. Meanwhile, enjoy this one!
Ecosexuality is the first world wide collection on the topic I edited with Lindsay Hagamen. The book explores the relationship between sex, ecology, and social change. Its versatility of styles and diversity of genres convey a compelling variety of perspectives on Ecosexuality. The collection integrates seductive, inspiring, and practical approaches for creating a love-based, sustainable culture. It brings together the voices of 30 diverse leaders to converge the multiple energies of the Ecosexual Movement.
Ecosexuality is the first world wide collection on the topic I edited with Lindsay Hagamen. The book explores the relationship between sex, ecology, and social change. Its versatility of styles and diversity of genres convey a compelling variety of perspectives on Ecosexuality. The collection integrates seductive, inspiring, and practical approaches for creating a love-based, sustainable culture. It brings together the voices of 30 diverse leaders to converge the multiple energies of the Ecosexual Movement.
Ecosexuality is the first world wide collection on the topic I edited with Lindsay Hagamen. The book explores the relationship between sex, ecology, and social change. Its versatility of styles and diversity of genres convey a compelling variety of perspectives on Ecosexuality. The collection integrates seductive, inspiring, and practical approaches for creating a love-based, sustainable culture. It brings together the voices of 30 diverse leaders to converge the multiple energies of the Ecosexual Movement.
Ecosexuality is the first world wide collection on the topic I edited with Lindsay Hagamen. The book explores the relationship between sex, ecology, and social change. Its versatility of styles and diversity of genres convey a compelling variety of perspectives on Ecosexuality. The collection integrates seductive, inspiring, and practical approaches for creating a love-based, sustainable culture. It brings together the voices of 30 diverse leaders to converge the multiple energies of the Ecosexual Movement.
The Symposium is the inaugural event for the project Islas Maravillas: Ecosexuality Education and Extensive Research at UPRM." It will take place at UPR Mayaguez on January 28-29, 2016.
The Symposium features Dr. Susan M. Block as a keynote speakers, and many other speakers.
The event is open to the public and free of charge and was created in the spirit of the gift economy.
The document also functions as a program-at-a-glance for these events.
For the Symposium, the document introduces the keynote and visualizes times, places, titles, and speakers. For the Wedding, it gives location and directions, a registration link, a timeline and program, and a list of attendance norms and needs.
The Symposium will take place on January 28-29, 2016 at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.
The Wedding will take place on January 30th at the nearby locality known as Playa Azul.
Both events are open to the public and free of charge. They are a product of the passion of its speakers and was creates in the spirit of the gift economy.
Two important tropes in the approach are Gaia theory and Deleuze's philosophy of Cinema.
Are you interested in Cinema? Are you interested in ecology? Are you interested in sexuality? Are you interested in the Ecosexual Movement? Are you interested in Deleuze's ideas? In Gaia theory?
If any or all of these apply to you, then please join the session.
I am open to responses, comments, suggestions about the proposal.
Thank you!
The course, Humanities 3112, is part of a two-‐semester sequence often taken by students of various disciplines as a socio-‐humanistic elective course.
Its internal revision, in 2005, includes the option of a thematic approach to emphasize chronology and offer conceptual continuity. I have implemented this option, which has resulted in good student response to the quality of content and administration of the course.
I am persuaded that the hybrid edition will considerably advance learning and improve the quality of the educational experience students have in the course.
Sources show that faculty who have taught hybrid courses generally emphasize two benefits:
1) " the technology, when used well, permits new opportunities for student learning and can improve learning outcomes; and,
2) faculty are less consumed by preparing and reviewing lecture materials and have increased time for interaction with their students. "
In relation to my sections of Humanities 3112 course, the following resources are available toward the said goals:
1) The series of nine one-‐hour videos covering the historical content of the course from 1500 to the present that I've recently produced under the UPRM A & S aegis. These videos are optimized versions of the lectures of the course I've given in past presential editions of the course.
2) My practice in successfully learning open-‐source LMSs, including Canvas and others of the open-‐ source kind.
3) My practice in successfully using the 25 percent online time allowed for presential courses to build content and test materials, and to improve students' experience in the course.
Link to You Tube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSR-dwq0vlhyHMO2A-W1EVSMuAy8wyLGe
The study measures the quality of the educational experience in the Hybrid Sections of the course Humanities 3112, with thematic organization: Humanities and Love.
The Survey assesses the quality of interdependent and integrated elements in the distance and presential modules of the course which constitute the Hybrid modality.
The Survey integrates elements of the experiential segment of the COE (Cuestionario de Opinion Estudiantil), of the “best-practices” empirically formulated by CREAD, and of the Objectives of the Course, as described in the syllabus.
The course is an integrated study of the Humanities from 1500 to the present.
The distance element of the course consists in nine one-hour Online Lectures on early modern and modern history available at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSR-dwq0vlhyHMO2A-W1EVSMuAy8wyLGe
Respondents are from the first three sections of the course taught in a Hybrid modality in the Fall of 2016.
The Survey was taken anonymously by participating students.
It was open on the Canvas LMS portal from November 10 to the 22.
Participation was 78.5 %, with 55 students responding over a total of 70 currently in the course.
The Survey has 38 questions, with the results of each reported below. In-progress results speak of an overwhelmingly positive experience.
Tabulated results indicate that 78.3 % of all respondents rated their educational experience ”excellent" or "good." Of these, 35.6 % placed it in the "excellent" range and 42.7 % in the "good" range.
Only 21.7 % rated the experience average or below.
For tabulated results, skip to slide 45. For considerations and conclusion go to slide 46.
Enjoy!
The overarching vision for this project is the following:
Figuring out how to avail ourselves of digital technologies to design course systems in the Humanities (or Western Cultures/Civilizations) that will inspire students to “fall in love” with all aspects of human cultural expression and diversity.
Considering that a successful Humanities course sequence/program is one that empowers students to become more aware of who we are as a species, of our diversities, and of how we impact one another and the life of planet Earth.
Understanding that this awareness comes in the context of a species now in a crisis that inspires the intent of evolving a heart large enough to match our big brain.
In this presentation, I share my experience in designing a course in Western Cultures that inspires today’s students to “fall in love” with the Humanities.
At UPRM in the flipped/hybrid classroom, Fall 2016, students evolved a deep appreciation for all aspects of human cultural expression and diversity.
The course was taught in a 50 % digital modality, it was organized around the universal theme of love, with the history of the Earth and all its people as its background.
Students devoted to the success of the course and their own in unprecedented ways, as indicated by academic results and assessment surveys.
It is designed to measure the quality of any distance education offering at UPRM.
In this case, the survey was applied the Hybrid Sections of the course Humanities 3112, with thematic organization: Humanities and Love.
The Encuesta was anonymously administered online to students in all sections of the course on November 28 to December 2, 2016.
A total of 49 our of 70 students responded, with a 70 % particiption.
The Encuesta is designed to measure the general quality of online educational offerings, with no specific questions about education in the Digital Humanities.
The Encuesta has 12 direct questions, two assessment questions, and one comparison question, for a total of 15.
Tabulated results indicate that 93.6 % of all respondents were totally satisfied and satisfied with the course. Of these, 55.1 % were totally satisfied, and 38. 5 % were satisfied.
Only 5.33 % were less than satisfied, while 1.7 % was unrated.
For tabulated results, skip to slide # 19. For considerations toward conclusions go to slide # 20 and following.
Enjoy!
The study measures the quality of the educational experience in the Hybrid Sections of the course Humanities 3112, with thematic organization: Humanities and Love.
The Survey assesses the quality of interdependent and integrated elements in the distance and presential modules of the course which constitute the Hybrid modality.
The Survey integrates elements of the experiential segment of the COE (Cuestionario de Opinion Estudiantil), of the “best-practices” empirically formulated by CREAD, and of the Objectives of the Course, as described in the syllabus.
The course is an integrated study of the Humanities from 1500 to the present.
The distance element of the course consists in nine one-hour Online Lectures on early modern and modern history available at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSR-dwq0vlhyHMO2A-W1EVSMuAy8wyLGe
Respondents are from the first three sections of the course taught in a Hybrid modality in the Fall of 2016.
The Survey was taken anonymously by participating students.
It was open on the Canvas LMS portal from November 10 to the 22.
Participation was 78.5 %, with 55 students responding over a total of 70 currently in the course.
The course is an integrated study of the Humanities from 1500 to the present.
The distance element of the course consists in nine one-hour Online Lectures on early modern and modern history available at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSR-dwq0vlhyHMO2A-W1EVSMuAy8wyLGe
Respondents are from the first three sections of the course taught in a Hybrid modality in the Fall of 2016.
The Survey was taken anonymously by participating students.
It was open on the Canvas LMS portal from November 10 to the 22.
Participation was 78.5 %, with 55 students responding over a total of 70 currently in the course.
Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves (2006)
Plural Loves: Designs for Bi and Poly Living (2005)
Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective (2003)
We did a Brechtian adaptation, which changed the cultural referents to one the local public would be familiar with, as in California versus Italy. One of the adaptations involved the gender of the new partner the woman in the open couple finds. We thought that MTF a transgender partner would be most suitable for the part. So we inserted this aspect. Maybe we went too far? In any event, we all enjoyed and it was a lot of fun! Enjoy the script. Namaste.