Introduction to Holistic Management:
Sustainability Practices

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of how to manage holistically—whether you are managing your own life, a business, your family, or your classroom. Using the Holistic Management® Framework you will learn how to define the whole under management, create a holisticgoal, to utilize a decision testing matrix for sustainability, understand the four ecosystem processes, to use the tools available to you to improve management effectiveness and the health of the environment.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. How to define a whole under management
2. How to create a holisticgoal
3. Understanding and applying the 7 testing questions of the Holistic Management Framework
4. How to develop an effective management feedback loop
5. Understanding what an effective water cycle is and how to identify it.
6. Understanding what an effective mineral cycle is and how to identify it.
7. Understanding what an effective energy flow is and how to identify it.
8. Understanding what constitutes an effective community dynamics (succession) and how to identify it.
9. Understanding the key 10 principles of Holistic Management
10. Understanding what tools are available for managing ecosystem processes
11. Learning how the application of these management tools affects the land
12. Learning how the type of environment influences the effect of those management tools
13. Learning how to read the land to determine what tools have been applied in the past

TEXTS, READINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONAL

RESOURCES: Healthy Land, Sustainable Future: Introduction to Holistic Management Manual (2007).Holistic Management International.
Adams, Ann (1999). At Home with Holistic Management. Holistic Management International.