Seasonal Hive Curriculum: Welcome to Summer

I share a step-by-step guide how to create your very own personal curriculum anchored in the hives seasons sweet honey and creative energy. I introduce you to hive style seasonal curriculum.

Dear Beezee Bees

There is a buzz on YouTube and other social media platforms about designing a personal curriculum, I love it! I believe all learning is personal, and the curriculum needs to be carefully curated content with clear learning outcomes. The fun part it, you get to choose the topic that is focused and specific. It needs to be personally meaningful and provide an enjoyable learning experience. Injecting fun into learning a passion topic or a new hobby.

Seasonal Hive Curriculum

Here I want to introduce Seasonal Hive Curriculums as a beautiful, gentle and thoughtful exploration of topics inspired by seasons and grounded in self-love, compassion and caring for ourselves while learning.

A hives version on the trending concept of creating your own personal curriculum is a DIY self-care strategy for protecting some space in our daily life for living with intention, curiosity, and mild buzzing chaos. It’s what happens when we realize no one is coming to hand us a neatly laminated roadmap, so we grab our metaphorical wings, pick a direction, and start gathering learning nectar from whatever blooms catch your eye. Some days we are a focused little worker bee, diligently pollinating your goals; other days you’re spiraling in delighted confusion because you discovered a new flower and now your entire curriculum has shifted by 47 degrees. But that’s the beauty of it: a personal curriculum is a creative process, a labour of love, it is alive, adaptive, and just structured enough to keep us from flying into a window and coming back to it. It’s learning the hive way of being curious, social, and always covered in sweet sticky mess.

Fred Lunenburg argues there are two key parts to curriculum design: 1) the subject matter and 2) the experience. She believes that the “conception of the curriculum as the experiences of the learner, complemented by organized content or subject matter”. I will be using this as a framework to design a personal curriculum about love.

In a previous article Rediscovering My Learning Mojo (It Was in the Hive All Along) I shared how I rediscovered my love for learning. In another articles Buzz off! I am safe. I am Just Reading I provide an overview of the Seven Life Domains and introduce you to a free quiz to discover your learning style (this bit is important for the experience part of this curriculum, head of to that article and find out your learning style).

Welcome to Summer

In the warm glow of sunshine, among the perfume of flowers, bees become tiny ambassadors of love, carrying it from bloom to bloom with every soft landing. Their flights trace invisible threads of softness across gardens and trees, with care that is often quiet, consistent, and generously shared. As they gather nectar and dust themselves in golden pollen, they are participating in a seasonal hive curriculum full of reciprocity of love, and gentle gestures, sticky‑kisses of joy.

Image: This is an outline of my personal curriculum blending subject matter of love inspired by summer, love of learning that is meaningful and enjoyable to me in a beehive seasonal way.

About Love

I think it is always nice to see another example of a personal curriculum and that is why I will share the one I have created for myself. The reason why I want to focus on my personal curriculum about ‘love’ is because it is part of the ‘relationship’ life domain and its insightful. In my social work role, I have provided countless counselling relationship sessions to partners, parents, and young people. Having said this, I am still learning about love, enjoying love and expressing love in my personal life and in my research.

Field Study

A field study of literature, pages of books and voices of researchers anchored in creativity for it to be enjoyable, meaningful, and an absolutely pleasure to complete (otherwise I won’t do it - I don’t have time), so here is my very simple field study;

1. Select a focus topic that keeps your inner bee buzzing: What do you want to learn about? What is your area of passion or interest? In my example above, I wanted to learn more about LOVE as the overarching topic, I needed to focus my topic into specific areas, in this example I focused on learning, self-love and feelings. This provided me with key words to search for the relevant text or sources of content.

2. Develop a simple buzz-worthy course outline: I would recommend 4 dot points, one overarching broad statement, two specific questions and outcome (journal entries are simple, easy and great to keep track of what you have learned)

3. Sticky Resources: These are materials and your personal time commitment. These are two essential ingredients for a simple personal curriculum. It is important to consider how much money and your time you have to commit to the learning experience.

4. Your personal learning style in full hive colour: So, what is your learning style? Is it visual, auditory, read/writing, kinesthetic. It is important to consider how you enjoy learning for the fun factor of learning for fun.

5. Your hive-chosen course text: This is absolutely a personal decision on how you source your text or content for your personal curriculum. I would suggest online searching, collecting ideas from your favourite bloggers or websites. Talking to friends or visiting your local library or bookshop. STICKY TIP: Select one source for the overview of the topic, then two sources to answer your two questions. If you are a social learner, consider seeing a lecture or participating in a workshop. Less is more!

6. A whole field of blooming possibilities: why not celebrate your very first personal curriculum anchored in creativity and take a field trip and explore love as the ultimate experience and connection to yourself that is grounding to the present moment. Have a hive-buzzing time at a movie, gallery, live music show, or a theatre play.

The Experience

I wondered if what I had learned through my personal curriculum in the hives season of summer, may be a shimmer of interest to you. This is a humming invitation to read my ‘creative note’ from my journal notebook, if your curiosity is drawn to it and you hope to discover a little more about love in learning, self-love and feelings that linger within us.

On a closing studio note, building a personal curriculum has been around for centuries (also known as professional and personal development) and so have self-proclaimed lifelong learners. Some other common terms that are used to describe this approach to learning are adult learning, self-directed learning, curious learning, knowledge seeking, independent learning and more.

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