Inner Peace, February 22nd
Our second online session about Peace and Progress is dedicated to Inner Peace. We approach this important condition for sustainable progress via three points of attention.
Date: 22.02.2022 Time: 17:00 CET (Amsterdam Time)
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About the speakers:
Sujith Ravindran: I first met Sujith in the Netherlands more than 10 years ago. We performed a few times together in events around multicultural relationships or entrepreneurship. Last year I joined the pilgrimage (a walk in Italy) that Sujith organizes every year for men around the world. Sujith is multiple bestselling author. His works excell on spirituality, mystical laws of abundance, masculinity and leadership.
Lieve Willems: Lieve is regular participant in my weekly open zoom dialogue sessions. She makes herself loved through her way of expressing herself and the wisdom she has accumulated about interrelational challenges in the complexity of our current times. She published a box with 33 cards on the topic, known as the “Universal Relational Esperanto”. Lieve helps organizations and teams to get into better interrelational understanding and productivity.
Marion van de Eijnden: Marion is also one of our regulars during the weekly zoom sessions. She always enlightens with her Avatar wisdom. Also now she will guide us in an excersize about compassion.
Jean-Paul Close: A decade or more ago I defined Sustainocracy as a societal approach that brings people and institutions together. My insights and motivation developed first as a single father. They subsequently develop for all children and grownups of this world.
International Women Peace Group and Sustainocracy
During our online Peace and Progress session we met Kelli Guess, a young woman engaged in the IWPG initiative that originated in South Korea. It now has 200 branches around the world and focuses on engaging women for peace. This community is a great platform to expand also Sustainocracy. With the branch in Los Angeles (America) a dialogue is started to make this happen.
When a university stands up to make the difference
Last night I was invited to speak at the inaugural online kickoff meeting between students and teachers of the University of Guatemala. Guatemala is having hard time. It suffers under a dominant autoritairian regiem, unstability under indiginous groups, the influence of narco organizations. Despite its richness in resources the country has a high level of poverty and lacks basic government investments in core values for sustainable local wellness. Over 200 were present online to address the coming educational season. This was placed in the context of involving the youth in the big challenges of the country.
The university wants to make a difference. It is yet again proof that change can come from any of the four legs on the table of sustainable human progress (Sustainocracy). Where in some countries we see the citizens stand up against their totalitarian regiems and claim their space to live and act, in others it are the local entrepreneurs or, in the case of Guatemala, the local University. It is the way I like to see Universities act, with insight, expertise, commitment to progress and its own responsibility in a society for peace and sustainable wellness.
My speech was titled “the world in which want to live”, referring to my own decisions in life to visualize the core human values and shared responsibilities between people and institutions for our sustainable human wellness and progress. For the students in Guatemala it was a reassurance that a single individual can make the difference if the story and determination is right.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 