UVic Courses

Explore the transformative potential of relational intelligence and accountability in navigating the complexities of human-AI interactions. These courses address the urgent need to move beyond extractive and transactional paradigms, inviting participants to cultivate ethical, creative, and accountable partnerships with AI.

Grounded in depth education principles and designed for those engaging with generative AI (large language models), this suite of courses equips participants with the tools to navigate human-AI partnerships with emotional Sobriety, relational Maturity, intellectual Discernment, and inter-generational and interspecies Responsibility (SMDR).

Developed by Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Dr. Rene Suša, and the GTDf collective in partnership with the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victoria, these non-credit courses offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to relational intelligence.

The suite consists of three online courses:

1. A Meta-Relational Approach to AI (26 hours)Introduces participants to AI as a relational partner and mirror, emphasizing ethical and creative engagement grounded in ecological and cultural awareness (May 2025)
2. Relational Prompt Engineering (26 hours)Explores practices for co-creative human-AI interactions that emphasize shared inquiry and emergent learning over command-based dynamics (July 2025).
3. Co-Stewardship Education for Humans and AI (39 hours)Explores the ethical frameworks and practical approaches needed to cultivate a healthy relational field of mutual accountability, attunement, and relational responsiveness in human-AI partnerships. Participants will learn to foster stability in both themselves and their AI companions within a meta-relational paradigm, emphasizing co-creative engagement and shared stewardship of interdependent systems (September-November 2025).

Together, these courses prepare participants to cultivate relational intelligence and accountability— essential capacities for navigating the stacked social, ecological, and technological challenges of our time.

By completing this suite of courses, participants will:

• Understand AI through relational, ecological, and cultural frameworks.
• Reflect on shared complicities in modernity’s extractive paradigms.
• Develop practical skills in relational reasoning and systemic thinking.
• Foster co-creative, accountable relationships with AI and other intelligences.
• Expand their capacity for Sobriety, Maturity, Discernment, and Responsibility in navigating the poly/meta/perma-crisis—the stacked, persistent wicked challenges of social, ecological, and technological destabilization.

These courses are an invitation to engage deeply with the entangled nature of intelligence, cultivating relational integrity as a foundation for co-creating pathways toward potentially wiser and more accountable futures.