Melodye Van Putten To Host 4 Week Course

August 26, 2013

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Africalogist Melodye Micëre Van Putten, will be hosting a four week course in September at the Bermuda National Library designed for personal enrichment and self-empowerment.

Mrs Van Putten created Ashay University, modeled after her character education program Ashay: Rites of Passage.

Ashay University courses will be taught by Mrs Van Putten, facilitated by the Guide to Self-Knowledge workbook. The customized workbook and classes are for mature adult learners and are hands-on, participatory, engaging and designed for personal enrichment and self-empowerment.

The fall course, Life Before Enslavement, will commence in September 2013. As the title reveals, it begins at the beginning, with Black life before enslavement. Class topics include the African Foundation Timeline, African Philosophy and Cosmology, the African Empires and Sacred Thoughts from Ancient Kemet, Dagara, Dogon and Yoruba.

Ashay University will meet on Thursdays in September for four weeks – September 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th from 6 to 8 pm. The $135 tuition includes the Guide to Self-Knowledge workbook and registration is currently open.

The objectives of Ashay University are two fold:

  • 1] To fill in the gaps in education of self – global Black history, culture, struggles and achievements – providing this knowledge from a position of empowerment.
  • 2] For adults to be able to share and pass on the information with family, especially children and grandchildren, who are not receiving this information in their school curriculum. It is the ultimate “each one, teach one,” understanding that no one can teach what they do not know.

Committed to providing empowering information, Van Putten’s future Ashay University course offerings include a Seminar on Kwanzaa [November], Know Thy Self [February, 2014], and Kephra:Becoming Rites of Passage for Women [March-April, 2014].

For more information, contact Mrs. Van Putten by e-mail at melodyevanputten@aol.com or by phone at 296-8137.

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  1. God 1st says:

    Afrocentric teachings of the truth!!!!

    For adults to be able to share and pass on the information with family, especially children and grandchildren, who are not receiving this information in their school curriculum. It is the ultimate “each one, teach one,” understanding that no one can teach what they do not know.

    Powerful!!!!!