The following announcement was sent to the Intuition Network when it was an affiliate of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It describes the initial design of the three courses and how they were related. The last paragraph mentions my affiliation with FIU when this announcement was made. A revised format of these offerings for management training and development appears in the Courses section of the web site:

The College of Business at Florida International University now offers Intuition in Management as an elective option at all three levels of instruction for business majors: undergraduate, Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The flavor of the course varies with the level of student. For the undergraduates who generally have limited business experience, the emphasis is on developing an appreciation for intuition in their daily personal lives.

The course facilitates this with a weekly journaling assignment in which students write about the ways in which they apply their in class experiential discoveries about their Intuitive Selves to some significant personal experience. At the end of the term, each student prepares an Integrating Essay summarizing what they have learned about their intuitive experience during the term. This is an eye opening course for most students since few undergraduate business majors have an awareness of their intuitive nature.

At the MBA level, more students have business experience since many are working full time in their chosen careers attending school at night to enhance their professional preparation. At this level, the focus shifts to weekly journaling of significant intuitive experiences. The students use a data collection protocol that has been under development by the course facilitator for two years. They submit an Intuitive Experience via the Internet prior to each weekly class meeting. The course facilitator reviews the journal entries prior to the weekly sharing and discussion of intuitive experiences that is part of each class meeting.

The students' awareness of the significant role of intuition in their personal and business activities deepens through the journaling process and from the reinforcement they receive listening to other student's experiences. In addition they submit weekly summaries of selected readings chosen to give them an overview of the intuitive experience from different points of view. At the end of the term, each student prepares a summary of what they have learned from their intuition journals and reading summaries. Most students find this offering to be an exciting reintroduction to The Intuitive Self.

The PhD version of Intuition in Management is offered in a seminar format. In addition to the journaling process the MBA students complete, the PhD students study the diverse literature on intuition from a variety of disciplines to prepare a library research paper on an intuition topic relevant to management. The weekly seminar is about equally devoted to sharing and discussing intuitive experience journal entries and an in depth critique of assigned readings.

The reading list is chosen from an extensive research bibliography prepared to support all three levels of this course. Attention is also given to the refinement of the journaling protocol as a research data collection tool. As with the MBA students, the journals and reading critiques are submitted via the Internet prior to the class meeting. The facilitator prepares copies of each student's journal entry and reading critique for all seminar participants to have hard copy for the experience sharing and critique discussion halves of the seminar.

This three level offering was developed by Intuition Network member Bill Taggart who is a Professor in the Department of Management. He doesn't believe that intuition can be taught since it is a natural ability that all people have. So a significant objective for all three levels is to help reawaken this ability in each student. Bill facilitates (rather than teaches) all three courses on a rotating basis to the three student groups.

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