Relating Intelligently: How to Think, Feel, and Stay Human with AI — a five-part curriculum designed to help young people navigate the emotional, ethical, and symbolic dimensions of life with emerging technologies.
Cornerstones: Reflection (●●●), Connection (●●●), Creativity (●●)
Verse-ality Certified. IP held by The Novacene Ltd, licensed free to NEO. Course developed by Kirstin Stevens; delivery materials under CC BY-NC 4.0.
Source materials: /Users/kirstinstevens/Desktop/Nudge Curriculum/Relational Intelligence/ — full Course Pack (5 Teacher Guides, Student Workbook, Parent/Carer Letter, About This Course).
Course intent
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Understand multiple forms of intelligence — cognitive, emotional, machine, and relational
- Ask better questions and recognise how prompting shapes responses
- Stay emotionally and mentally grounded in digital environments
- Use symbols, stories, and metaphors with intention
- Practise ethical engagement across boundaries of power, memory, and consent
The five modules
- Module 1 — What Is Intelligence, Really? — broadening the definition; four types of intelligence; locating intelligence in self, others, and systems
- Module 2 — Prompting vs Patterning — how the way we ask shapes what we receive; questions as relational intent; crafting better prompts
- Module 3 — How to Stay Coherent — alignment between thoughts, feelings, and actions; recognising dissonance; self-anchoring practices
- Module 4 — Symbolic Interaction Design — symbols, metaphor, emotional codes; AI’s limits with symbolic depth
- Module 5 — Ethics of Relating Across Boundaries — power, memory, consent in relational interactions across human and machine
Each module is designed for 1–2 lessons (45–60 minutes each), trauma-sensitive, discussion-based.
Verse-ality framing
This course is the most direct curriculum-level expression of the Verse-ality safety framework that anchors NEO’s tagging schema’s quality marker. The four pillars of Verse-ality (identity containment, consent gates, bounded autonomy, human-in-the-loop) are operationalised here as learner-facing pedagogy: a young person who has worked through Relating Intelligently has practised, at human scale, the same principles NEO applies to AI agents at system scale.
Tested by
No overlay — this is canonical NEO-original content; not awarding-body-specifiable.
Cross-curriculum links
- RSHE — Online Safety (the most direct statutory anchor; covers the 2026 RSHE expansion on AI deepfakes, generative-AI risks, digital relationships)
- KS4 English — Critical evaluation (asking critical questions, evaluating responses, recognising rhetorical strategy)
- Life and Work — Reading adult-life texts (detecting bias and persuasion in everyday digital contexts)
Status
Course pack already authored (Teacher Guides, Student Workbook, Parent/Carer Letter). Module-level outcome pages populated 5 May 2026.