Originally Posted by
Sageous
Before you start the process for establishing your class, RedKali, you might want to consider an important aspect of DV courses: credibility.
Though your class outline is already impressive enough to me that I'd be interested in following it, there is one thing missing that I think must be addressed:
In order to teach a course on shared-dreaming, I think that you need to have the confidence of your students not only that you are a successful shared dreamer, but also that the things you are teaching might pass that success onto them, if they follow the course properly. I'm not seeing that.
Are you suggesting instead that we have a class about shared dreaming, sort of a survey of popular theories and potentials (which would be fine by me, BTW), or are you suggesting a class for advancing the actual art of shared dreaming, assuming there is one? I thing DVA tends to lean toward the "art" camp, in that they want to offer "how-to" classes, rather than theoretical classes, so we would really need to have an accomplished dream-sharer as instructor, one who can confidently transfer his ability to willing students... would that be you?
On the other hand, I could be wrong; DV might be open to a well-presented theoretical class about dream-sharing. As I said, that would be fine with me too, but by offering such a class you might run the risk of "students" spending their time arguing about whether dream-sharing exists at all, and demanding proof of that from their professor before discussing anything else about the subject, to the point that the interesting and valuable stuff you suggest teaching gets ignored.
tl;dr: Would this be a "how-to" course for shared dreaming? If so, can you confidently provide the necessary "Been there, done that," credibility so that your students can both accept your words and aspire to your example? Or would this class simply be a survey about shared-dreaming, with no expectation of learning how to do it?
I hope this post doesn't come off as negative; it wasn't meant that way -- I actually think this is a good idea.