World Wide Warren

The Warren can be a place of confusion, challenge, discomfort and shock but it can also be a place of surprise, thrill, self-development, comfort and safety. The Warren Academy’s rabbit holes, burrows, and tunnels are many, it’s chambers are surprising, its tunnels run deep and it has SECRET rabbit holes and chambers too...

All the Warren Agility Courses and premium coaching programs are designed to be mindful emersion experiences, they are created to produce an accomplished emergence from their content, structure, and delivery method. This means that they differ from other courses in several ways.

Warren Agility Courses (WACs) and programs contain a significantly large volume of information, materials, and resources compared to standard courses. WACs and programs utilize challenge questions, reflection chambers, they encourage application and practice of critical thought, and facilitate mindful and accomplished emergence. All courses are created with an experience in mind and they facilitate comprehensive exploratory journeys. Warren Academy courses are called agility courses but the type of courses are immersive and can be described as mindful emersion experiences. The word 'emersion' has been chosen instead of 'immersion' because the focus is on the process of coming through the rabbit holes, emergence is key.

Life is full of stressors and distractions, so getting the best out of any course can be a challenge. It’s about allowing ourselves to enveloped in the course content. More importantly, it’s about believing in a meaningful emersion from it. We delve into our own thoughts and metacognition, our feelings, perspectives, opinions, judgements, open-mindedness, challenges, struggles, wounds, perceived flaws, rewards, wonder, enlightenment and achievements – all of which can be found deep into the World Wide Warren.

Depending on their topic, some courses are less demanding in terms of content, less mentally and emotionally challenging but all courses support critical thought to some degree. Warren Academy's premium coaching programs do this to the highest degree. For example, the first course launched, Thru the Rabbit Holes of 'Mental Health' Service-User Self-Advocacy (full WAC) is relatively gentle in its challenge to conventional thought on ‘mental illness’ compared to some other scheduled WACs that focus on Madness academia.

Warren Academy courses and programs feature a multitude of burrows and chambers (units and modules) and many chambers have topical content that is not often seen or included in standardized 'mental health' sector training courses. Warren courses differ from most other courses in several ways, including their method and style of online delivery. Whilst drip scheduling is not uncommon, the Warren Academy uses a drip schedule for a values-based purpose rather than for other online provider reasons. The course scheduling pre-determines the number of days after a burrow first opens before the next burrow will open, in conjunction with all chambers within a burrow being pre-requisites to open the next burrow. Another interesting element of Warren Academy courses and programs is the non-negotiable study break. The break encourages explorers to engross themselves in the supportive resources provided in the library chambers.

Warren Academy courses and programs are unique due to their design, each contain thought-provoking reflection chambers. If the participant is committed to full emersion from the course by pursuing the course outcomes using a mindful approach to their agility course, then the reflection chambers are the parts of the experience where that magic can really happen.

Regarding some course providers and trainers, the resources that are positioned as supplementary, can be overlooked when often they can provide a much richer and nuanced understanding that may not be elicited from the other course materials. In fact, it can at times, be difficult to know what should be required reading for a course and what should be supplementary. Do we know what those terms mean and why? What ideas are used to decide which information should be more important than other information and how do we decide what order materials and resources should be studied and explored?

The study break in addition to other course elements, encourages an experience of reflection, mindfulness, and critical thinking, therefore supports an emersion experience towards a meaningful final emergence from the course. Secondly, course breaks include taking a rest and we all need a little break from several weeks or months investigating things! It supports our wellbeing.

The purpose for Warren Academy’s delivery methods and its unique style for its courses and programs, is to maximize what the World Wide Warren has to offer in terms of large quantities of high quality content. The Warren Academy encourages mindful emersion from it's content by encouraging reflective study practice and reflexive exploration. This is not something that can be rushed! Material content is often skipped in some courses and that's perhaps because of the delivery method, engagement practices, and the pedagogy.

The Warren agility courses and programs are mental and emotional agility exercises. They are not simply courses, they’re supporting a psychological and cognitive process that can stand alone regardless of the course content.

Once we’ve entered a rabbit hole, the World Wide Warren requires us to be fully present whilst burrowing/digging around in the rabbit hole, all it's burrows and chambers. This means turning up to the Warren with a mindset of “doing our best to be in the moment and doing our best to soak up the moment”.