Our global School of Talents and Wellness attracts all kinds of people from around the world. All are invited by Jean-Paul Close to use their own expertise within the vision of Sustainocracy (core natural human values and democracy) to come up with global or local programs. During previous sessions, including the ones organized by Dr. Mahendra Shah under the title of Earth Odyssey, we got to four propositions:

• Sustainability or Health Valleys near urban areas. In analogy of the old establishment of Silicon Valley like industrial zones near cities we could organize Sustainability Valleys. The SDGs and Sustainocratic core human values could be developed in such areas with the engagement of the local community of citizen’s and institutions.
• Zero tolerance. It is gradually unacceptable that institutions operate in a “negative values” environment (abuse of human beings, society and planet) out of pure financial benefit. The alternative is defined using instruments like UNITED and the 4 x Profit/Value principles for genuin participation in core values creation. In 2020 we speak out the Zero Tolerance to be fully applied in society against anyone (business or politics) as from 2030, providing a voluntary 10 year transition period. During those 10 years severe cases will be prosecuted already to create precedents and warning signals to those who are reluctant. As from 2030 the abuse is seen as a crime against humity and our living planet.
• LYPS – Let Your Passion Shine: Showing the positive, passion driven initiatives, large and small, of people in the field of values creation, creativity and expressionist art. We use video platforms, social media, etc to inspire, build awareness and visualize back practice measured against the core values, UNITED, 4 x Profit, etc.
• Engaging our youngest generations and schools into the School of Talents and Wellness. Young people are trapped into a old scholing system that pays no attention the essentials of living a progressive life. There future is not based anymore of the old thinking of a job for life and obedience within a system. Their empathy towards the planet, our fellow human beings and the challenges we face, require the development of the creative innovative potential, addressing phenomena and root causes rather that sustaining the unsustainable.

The discussion went into a specific direction, an open reflection. Feel free to listen to the dialogue as it builds up. Relevant information can be found here:

• Shinrin Yuko Forest Bathing immunity Therapy (Bali Zen Resort)
• Computational thinking (Barry Kort)
• Cognition, Affect and Learning (Barry Kort)
• Redefining Human Complexities (Jean-Paul Close)

Present during todays dialogue about these issues and bringing them into our practical reality are:

• Jean-Paul Close (Netherlands)- invitation to participate, moderator and initiator of Sustainocracy
• Dr. Mahendra Shah (India/Bali)- old United Nations executive, currently owner of a Zen Resort on Bali and initiator of Earth Odyssey
• Zvi Weinstein (Israel)- Israel Smart City institute
• Heiner Benking (Germany)-
• Eugen Oetringer (Germany/Netherlands) – Agile coach
• Barry Kort (USA) – the theory of emotions and learning
• Ukpeme Okon (Nigeria/USA)- lawyer, ambassador of peace
• Stavey Druss (USA) –
• Terry van de Vossenberg (Netherlands) – Sustainocratic initiative developer

Five times in history our planet Earth suffered a high impact event that nearly killed all life forms. The most famous is the alleged meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sixth event seems to occur right now. It is called “the human being” and our Anthropocene behavior. Even this is being disputed by some scientists who refer to humankind as a possible hickup in the history of life on Earth, one that will be long forgotten, let alone remembered by any possible future so called intelligent, analytical species in the future.

What would that mean? That we don’t have to take responsibility, because whatever we do, we become extinct anyway? Or does that mean that we do need to take responsibility in order to make the best of it as long as we occupy our place in the timeline of the planet and its ecosystem? Is it reasonable to analyse the human species as any other species in the diversity of possibilities? Or do we need to look at our wit, self awareness, creativity, inventiveness and adaptiveness as something unique, authentic and instrumental to turn our destiny to our benefit. Is it reasonable to look at our development in logical phases, starting with our breakthrough as an intelligent toolmaker?

Our second phase would be competitive as our advantage would give us the capacity of greed and desire of control. We would follow the path of deepening understanding that greed and competition does not lead to stability. That diplomacy, cocreation would, first of all among the diversity of our own many cultures.

Haven’t we now reached a point of a second mayor turnaround, one that gives us deep understanding of our responsibility towards ourselves and our environment, the one of symbiose, to live and let live? To value our core natural values and let nature and time determine our destiny while we ourselves contribute to our sustainable existence instead of self inflicted premature death?

Let is talk about it, and develop a mindset of faith, adaptiveness, sustainable progress and cohesion. Earth Odyssey is a platform for dialogue. Sustainocracy is a new mindset.

• First open dialogue live streamed on november 1st 2020
• Second open dialogue live stream on november 15th 2020
• Third open dialogue live stream on november 29th 2020

1. Who? Me?

The most common position to address the issues of the world is “to let someone else deal with it”. In our fragmented reality, in which we all occupy a little piece of everything and no one seems responsable for “it all”, one easily identifies with the big global problems but hardly with one’s own responsability or one’s option to bring the world together to solve whatever is needed. This is the case for the billions of individuals but also all the institutions that have their own specific objectives and interests to focus on, to stay alive in the fragmented economical political environment.

2. If you ask me, and pay me

We live in a fragmented reality in which trade is the norm, as well as reactive, remedial governance. All our efforts are measured against financial rewards. Governments tend to subsidize remedial actions that they consider needed. In the past the same governments may have paid to do whatever created the problem that now needs to be solved. They never go to the root cause and tend to mop with the tap open as the tap represents interests that are difficult to wipe out. Business organizations offer their services to solve whatever problem as long as they get paid. They will not go at the root cause of issues either as these do not provide financial means and often even show that most of the institutions are as much part of the problem that they try to solve against payment. Like someone said in big pharma about medicine: “It is not our business to cure people, we just satisfy our shareholders.”

3. Activism

Then there is the category to people that either suffer the consequences of the problems, or develop a moral attitude to the lack of responsability that is taken by the fragmented players, people or governments. There are many ways to show insatisfaction or a particular morality. One can become a volunteer (unpaid participant) to solve issues at hand. One can organize or participate in demonstrations, show aggression against dominance (terrorism), prepare an attack through justice, or lobby through the media or with pamflets.

4. Create something new

The layer that we created as Sustainocracy simply invites everyone to participate in addressing the issues by developing the root of all issues, our mindset and contextual focus. In fact we engage the previous three points of view without them hardly noticing. The layer “who me?” is invited to follow the new mass and as their follower’s mentality gets them to participate in the solution without even changing their attitude (eg. if no plastic bags are available people bring their own). The layer “if you ask me and pay me” (business) is participating through the projects but at the same time asked to reflect about their own position (transformation and positioning) in the problem solving eco-system. The “activists” have a dot on the horizon to pinpoint to and enough material to address the ones “who don’t (want to) know” about their choice and make it know to them.