Hello Everyone!
I’d like to invite you to this contemplative conversation series which will start on Friday week. Please feel free to tell anyone you might think would be interested.
With warm, good wishes,
Christine.
Taking Ownership
Exploring a radical sense of responsibility
Taking Ownership is a series of contemplative conversations that will focus on some of the core issues that we face as a nation. Looking to a radical sense of responsibility as an antidote to our crisis of leadership, this series invites all who are interested to explore the spiritual issues that underlie many of our current social upheavals.
The conversations include a short presentation followed by silent reflection, with thereafter a general sharing of responses. Each of the talks will present one or more transformative truths that, it is hoped, will renew a sense of responsibility between the individual and the collective, between the private and the public, and between the peripheral and the central.
The series begins on
FRIDAY 7th May.
7.15 – 9.15 pm.
Refreshments will be provided.
Admission is free.
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Friday 7th May 2010.
CREATING A SANE SOCIETY
Professor Ivor Browne
What holds the network of life together and how does it work?
How do we create a sane and healthy society that is holistically relational and responsible?
This talk will explore the characteristics of a living system that is intimate enough to counteract the relentless transfer of power and control from the peripheral to the central, from the small to the large, and from the personal to the anonymous and institutional. A self-organizing society is built on a network of life that acknowledges a connection between our minds and our molecules, our emotions and our cells, our souls and our organs, and that ultimately enables a social, financial and political context that is understandable in human terms.
Friday 21 May 2010
QUANTUM HEALING
Julie Williams
Can an individual’s undertaking of personal healing and growth create a better society? If I heal myself, what effects can I hope will be created around me, what hope for the whales in the oceans, for the water in the wells, and for the food in the fields? This speaker will explore how, in healing our own pain, we work on behalf of those who endure the effects of disconnected living. It will explore the quantum possibility of imagining and creating a living society that is at once healthy, balanced and fully alive.
Friday 04 June 2010
CREATING A SUSTAINABLE LIVING SYSTEM
David Korowicz
The depletion of energy reserves and other constraints might mean that we are unlikely ever to emerge from recession. Indeed, we could be on the threshold of a radical change in our welfare, well-being and our life expectations. This speaker will explore those areas of our personal and social lives that we cannot change, so that we might recognize and become responsible in those areas that we can change.
Friday June 2010
AGAINST SEX TRAFFICKING
Stellan Hermansson
How and why does a society tolerate the trafficking and enslavement of innocent women and children for the sexual pleasure of men? What values underlie relationship, responsibility and sexuality in a society so exposed? This talk will examine how Swedish society initiated a sea change in attitude by prosecuting the purchaser rather than the seller of sex. The effect of this action has spead throughtout other scandanavian and European societies who likewise reject intolerable power relations involved in international prostitution.