Power of Community Summit
Climate Change and Consciousness
Feb 1-10, 2019
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This Summit is just right for you if...
- You are seeking inspiration and hope for the future facing today’s climate crisis.
- You want to join others in right action by creating hubs of consciousness worldwide.
- You want to reduce your carbon footprint while connecting with thought leaders worldwide.
- You have a busy schedule and limited extra time.
- You believe in the power of community, but you don’t really know where to start building or you want more tools to connect more deeply.
- You sense at a deep level that solutions are urgently needed to regenerate our planet.
- You want to join an established network of living laboratories catalysing multidimensional sustainability today.
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These experts will accompany you for over a week
Joanna Macy
Author, Teacher, Buddhist scholar, Environmental Activist
"If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being"
Charles Eisenstein
Philosopher, Author, Internationally Renowned Speaker
“Humanity is meant to join fully the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts towards the wellbeing and development of the whole.”
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Linguist, Author, Filmmaker, Founder of the Localisation movement
"Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves."
Christiana Figueres
International leader on global climate change
"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history."
Linda Kabaira
Forester, Environmentalist, National Director for Zimbabwe Institute of Permaculture
"We can have young people at the center of a happier planet, a happier future."
Fritjof Capra
Bestselling author, Scientist and Educator
“The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be”.
Polly Higgins
Visionary Thinker, The Planet's Lawyer
“The shift in consciousness required here is an espousal of our collective responsibility for the ecology of our planet. Once we have that shift we will have true social progress.”
Dr. William Ury
Bestselling Author, Negotiation adviser, International Mediator
"The challenge is, paradoxically, to make the world safe for conflict."
Mugove Nyika
Ecovillage Design Education facilitator, member of the GEN Africa Advisory Council
"My dream is to have my mother continent, Africa, show the whole world how to live in natural abundance, how to be resilient, and how we can all live in harmony with nature and each other."
Thomas Hübl
Modern mystic, Spiritual teacher, Founder of Sharing the Presence Association
“The deepest listening is presence, is consciousness itself. It is space, an open heart, compassion and a deep receiving of someone.”
Pat McCabe
Activist, Artist, Writer, Dine' Ceremonial leader
"Peace is not only a question of personal aspects. It is also the question of how we can build up social structures and how we can build a culture which is really based on trust."
Makuini Ruth Tai
Educator, Workshop Facilitator, Sacred Journeys host
"Indigenous people are the nature people - they are the ones with their conscious connection to all the subtle and not so subtle movement that surrounds them, and through living and working in a group or community setting, they had their finger on the pulse of the environment that enveloped them."
Frédéric Laloux
Author, Organisational Innovator
“Too often, as we try to change the world we struggle with outdated management practices. Let a new consciousness breathe life into our workplaces, so we can breathe it into the world!”
Neema Namadamu
Visionary game-changer, Founder of SAFECO
"Ignorance is not good. And we have a culture of punishing women. We are not free yet. But with magic, mind and thinking , we can be free. And I believe and I have hope we are going to see change soon."
Rob Hopkins
Activist, Author, Co-founder of the Transition Network
"If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."
Visolela Namises
Women's Rights Activist, Namibian politician, Founder of Dolam Children's Home
"We want to bring a sustainable, low-cost, low-impact lifestyle to our people and the world. As African people, we have been living a communal life that has been protecting the environment in a holistic manner."
Ethan Soloviev
Permaculture expert, Co-author of Regenerative Enterprise
"We welcome a global conversation to continue developing and improving regenerative agriculture so we can effectively reverse climate change and regenerate the planet."
Dr. Stephanie Mines
Neuropsychologist, Author
"We, I feel, are being called to step up as leaders, as our Mother Earth, the deeply feminine force of the earth, Gaia, calls us forward to stand for her. We are her voices."
Daniel Christian Wahl
Regenerative Design Generalist, Educator, Author
"The creation of diverse, regenerative cultures collaboratively united in a regenerative civilization is the only viable future open to us as we move into the ‘planetary era’."
Christian Felber
Author, Initiator of Economy for the Common Good movement
"The Economy for the Common Good advocates a more ethical economic model, in which the wellbeing of people and the environment become the ultimate goal of business."
Sabine Lichtenfels
Peace Researcher, Co-founder of Tamera Ecovillage
"Peace is not only a question of personal aspects. It is also the question of how we can build up social structures and how we can build a culture which is really based on trust."
Kosha Joubert
Executive Director of the Global Ecovillage Network
"One of the most under-utilised resources we have on this planet is the good intentions of citizens and our wish to make a difference."
Dr. Ousmane Pame
Intercultural Exchange, Ecovillage and Sustainable Rural Networking Leader
“In real ecovillages, people produce wealth without harming their physical and social environments. Real ecovillages create or reinforce simple and rational lifestyles in which greed, accumulation and human exploitation have no space."
Rev. Fletcher Harper
Director of GreenFaith, Award-winning spiritual writer
“Mother Earth is an incredible blessing, and community-level, eco-village action is fundamental to a sustainable future.”
Tiejun Wen
Executive Dean, Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China
“To confront the social and economic changes underway at a global level, we need to work on the integration between the urban and rural contexts."
Edgard Gouveia, Jr.
Architect, Professor, Inclusive Design through Community Organizing
"What if building the world of our dreams could be fast, free and fun?"
Richard Olivier
Leadership development consultant, Speaker, Facilitator
"It is our experience that there are a few key energising human elements that truly transformational leaders choose to embrace before and during any important change process."
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Author, Founder Peace Direct, Co-founder Rising Women Rising World and FemmeQ
"I drew attention to the major challenges humanity now faces...Since none of these ‘threats’ can be dealt with by weaponry or by military superiority, it has become essential for us humans to develop a higher level of intelligence, or consciousness. "
John D. Liu
Film-maker, Ecologist, Founder of Ecosystem Restoration Camps
"We have the ability to act individually and collectively to mitigate and adapt to climate change."
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Our Response to the Climate Emergency
February 1-10, 2020
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