Planetary Concerns
The unconference will encourage sharing and conversations in 5 planetary concerns (themes). They will form key components of the unconference. (Note: These planetary realities take diverse local forms of expressions. Also to address them one needs to transcend traditional boundaries and work from an inter-disciplinary or inter-religious or non-linear approaches.)
Planetary Well-Being
Our concern for the well being of all physical and biological aspects of the planet and ecology related to them.
Human Well-Being
Our concern for our individual and collective well being, covering such areas as misery and happiness, friendship, better communication, and trust, pain, conflict and reconciliation, etc.
Planetary Society and Economy
Our concern of economic, social and political disasters of a purely growth-oriented economy. Our concern for value creation that supports life and ecology and promotes happiness and achievements-based on de-growth/post-development. Our concern for a humane, but not human-centered, economy.
Pedagogy and People Formation
Our concern for alternative lifestyles that promote peace and community, less having but more being, truthful communication, shaping alternative educational initiatives (as against factory modes) that nurtures safe, ecologically sound and more meaningful futures, creating spaces for human spiritual regeneration.
Culture, Spirituality and Sustainability
Our concerns for the human spirit, exploring mindfulness and interconnectedness, inter-faith realities transcending sectarianism and creating sustainable designs promoting these aspects
In sharing on these thematic planetary concerns, the participants are encouraged to elaborate on their concerns in the following areas and/or topics, fleshed out in the table below. (We encourage participants to explore areas that are not mentioned in the table.)
The unconference will encourage sharing and conversations in 5 planetary concerns (themes). They will form key components of the unconference. (Note: These planetary realities take diverse local forms of expressions. Also to address them one needs to transcend traditional boundaries and work from an inter-disciplinary or inter-religious or non-linear approaches.)
Planetary Well-Being
Our concern for the well being of all physical and biological aspects of the planet and ecology related to them.
Human Well-Being
Our concern for our individual and collective well being, covering such areas as misery and happiness, friendship, better communication, and trust, pain, conflict and reconciliation, etc.
Planetary Society and Economy
Our concern of economic, social and political disasters of a purely growth-oriented economy. Our concern for value creation that supports life and ecology and promotes happiness and achievements-based on de-growth/post-development. Our concern for a humane, but not human-centered, economy.
Pedagogy and People Formation
Our concern for alternative lifestyles that promote peace and community, less having but more being, truthful communication, shaping alternative educational initiatives (as against factory modes) that nurtures safe, ecologically sound and more meaningful futures, creating spaces for human spiritual regeneration.
Culture, Spirituality and Sustainability
Our concerns for the human spirit, exploring mindfulness and interconnectedness, inter-faith realities transcending sectarianism and creating sustainable designs promoting these aspects
In sharing on these thematic planetary concerns, the participants are encouraged to elaborate on their concerns in the following areas and/or topics, fleshed out in the table below. (We encourage participants to explore areas that are not mentioned in the table.)
(Note: These are to be seen as ‘sensitisers’ (or ‘memory joggers’) rather than firm topics. Also, concerns can be associated with or linked up with each other to make a broader area of concern. These areas can be further seen as affirmations or questions. Or ones from which new areas take birth.)
