Self Knowledge and Global Responsibility
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Talks from the annual Symposium on Self Knowledge and Global Responsibility, which is dedicated to a unified and global vision of humanity today and its responsibility to itself, the world and all its inhabitants
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Independence, interdependence and dependence in Europe | Jonathan Yiangou is an economist and analyst currently working at the European Central Bank. His talk from the 2011 SKGR Symposium is a brilliant and timely contribution that clearly outlines some of the underlying causes behind the problems in Europe, and their implications. He explains with alacrity the relationship between independence and interdependence and their dependence upon a common root, which must be recognized if the system is to be successful. It becomes clear that this is a universal dynamic, as true for economics as for the environment, politics and our own relationship with society, the world and our essential nature. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Self Knowledge, Global Responsibility and the transformation of culture | Aaron Cass, director of the Self Knowledge Global Responsibility Project introduces the 2011 SKGR Symposium: Moving Heaven Moving Earth, at Chisholme House in Scotland. He poses questions to be considered including What is the difference between unity and interconnectedness? What is the role of the individual in global change? What is the significance of global protest movements? How can we draw from and feed into the discourse which is growing up around us? An insightful and thoughtful examination of contemporary culture and a demand on us all to wake up and be conscious and responsible actors in the world. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bodies, Food and Kinship: cultivating and sharing food as the basis of wellbeing in Amazonia | Emily is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Kent, working with Ashaninka people in Peruvian Amazonia. She has worked on indigenous peoples' rights with Forest Peoples Programme, a UK-based human rights NGO, and she has always had a strong interest in how human beings relate to their environment, having started her adult life as a biologist and conservationist. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slow Food: international perspective and local activities | Daniel has been chair of the Edinburgh local group of Slow Food since February 2010 – and has been active on the Committee since 2008. Daniel has a farming background, his parents having farmed in both Argyll and Orkney – after finishing his agriculture degree Daniel spent a few years helping run the family farm in Orkney. He also has an MSc from University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University. Daniel works for Scottish Natural Heritage in the Planning & Renewables Unit - his current job includes working on transport issues, SNH's approach to dealing with future challenges in planning and sustainable development, input to the Scottish Government's Land Use Strategy, and promoting how the natural environment contributes to Scotland's economy. Daniel's previous roles in SNH have included working on land use policy. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Mutual Food | Pete has a background in community development and currently works for One Planet Food, a project based at Falkland Centre for Stewardship in Fife which works with others to make the food system more sustainable and equitable. One Planet Food helped to convene Nourish, a national network of small producers and community groups interested in sustainable local food. Most of the time Pete works as an organic farmer at Lamancha in the Borders. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting young people back onto the land and the story of setting-up our CSA | Ed is a young farmer and a journalist. He has written for The Guardian, The Ecologist and Resurgence and is co-editor of The Land Magazine. He has recently set up a Community Supported Agrigulture (CSA) market garden on the edge of Dartmoor and is passionate about getting more young people working with horses. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sustainable agriculture and what it says about being human | Sam's background is in Sociology (his first degree) and Sustainability (in which he gained an MA delivered by the charity Forum for the Future). Sam lives and works on Church Farm, in Ardeley, Hertfordshire, which he has helped re-establish from set aside since January 2008. Church Farm uses sustainable, ecological methods, based on traditional mixed farming, to grow almost everything that can be grown in the UK. In July 2010 work started with Andy and Paul (Sam's partners in Something & Son LLP) to transform a disused East End shop into a farm. Almost a year on, "FARM:shop Dalston" is producing fish, salad, herbs, vegetables, eggs, mushrooms and even lufahs. He is a co-founder of the New Agrarian Alliance and has worked closely with Colin and Ruth Tudge to develop the Campaign for Real Farming and the College for Enlightened Agriculture. He has worked as a consultant, has had articles published in national newspapers and magazines, and likes to think of himself as a specialist generalist – aspiring to be a 21st century peasant. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is Future Justice? | Maja is currently a directing researcher for the Hamburg-based World Future Council, where she campaigned on climate/energy issues and launched the World Future Council programs, Future Justice in January 2008. With its global expert commission, she develops and promotes tools for public policy frameworks that integrate human security, ecological integrity, and social equity in the interest of future generations. | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What makes a Master Peacebuilder? | Scilla Elworthy Ph D founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from peace-builders in conflict areas. Previously she founded the Oxford Research Group in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. It is for this work that she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2005-7 she was adviser to Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson in setting up The Elders initiative, and in 2007 was appointed a member of the World Future Council and the International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy. She also advises the first lady of Egypt and SEKEM University, Cairo, on peace education. | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Art of The Insoluble | Colin Tudge was born in London in 1943; educated at Dulwich College, 1954-61; and read zoology at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1962-65. Ever since then he has earned a living by spasmodic broadcasting and a lot of writing — mainly books these days, but with occasional articles. He has a special interest in natural history in general, evolution and genetics, food and agriculture, and spends a great deal of time on philosophy (especially moral philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the relationship between science and religion). | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction and Welcome | Peter Yiangou grew up in South Africa, leaving the oppression of apartheid for the UK in 1971, where he completed his architecture training at the Architectural Association. He has studied on all the Beshara School courses over the years, and been involved in various organisational positions. Since 2000 he has been involved with 20 courses in Indonesia and Australia. He delivered a paper at the MIAS symposium in San Francisco in 2007 on ‘the Globalisation of Consciousness'. | 2/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How New Consciousness is Transforming Conflict | Scilla Elworthy Ph D founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from peace-builders in conflict areas. Previously she founded the Oxford Research Group in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. It is for this work that she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2005-7 she was adviser to Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson in setting up The Elders initiative, and in 2007 was appointed a member of the World Future Council and the International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy. She also advises the first lady of Egypt and SEKEM University, Cairo, on peace education. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is the Self? | Niels Detert studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University (1990-3). Following this he worked as an assistant psychologist in the National Health Service, before completing doctoral training in Clinical Psychology (2000), and further qualifications in Clinical Neuropsychology. He now works at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford as a Clinical Neuropsychologist, taking a special interest in mind/body connections. He has recently been developing and teaching a group programme in mindfulness training for patients at the hospital, based on the work of Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn. He is a student of the Beshara School, having undertaken the six-month intensive and advanced courses (1995, 2000), and serves on the board of directors of the Chisholme Institute. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Reality | Giles co-founded The Financial Initiative Ltd, the first UK ethical financial institution, in 1984 and Barchester Green Investment, the first green IFA, in 1989. From 1997 to 2005 he worked at Holden Meehan. Giles has a BA degree in Philosophy and an MBA in Finance.He has been a leading figure in socially responsible investing for over 20 years, and joined Holden & Partners in 2005. Giles enjoys developing proactive, profitable and innovative arrangements for clients, pushing forward the effectiveness of investing in a sustainable future. During his career he has advised the Indonesian Minister of Finance on public enterprise planning and management, and has been a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the Crisis Deep Enough? | Ms Felia Salim sits on the Board of Commissioners of Bank Negara Indonesia. Before her appointment as Commissioner, she was Executive Secretary of the Financial Sector Policy Committee. Ms Salim has a strong background in the corporate sector, having been a Director of the Jakarta Stock Exchange, Vice President of PT Jardine Fleming Nusantara and Vice President of Citibank NA. Ms Salim was Deputy Chair of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA). As Indonesia revamped its banking industry, Ms Salim was charged with monitoring and restructuring banks under IBRA's control. Ms Salim is a Founder of TIFA Foundation, an organization that promotes open society in Indonesia and one which respects diversity and honors the rule of law, justice, and equality. As a supporter of civil society organizations, she is a Board Member of the Partnership for Governance Reform, a grant-making body supported by the UNDP, World Bank, ADB and other international donors. Ms Salim is also a proponent of good corporate governance, being a member of the Forum for Corporate Governance of Indonesia as well as a Board Member of the Indonesian Chapter of Transparency International. Ms Salim obtained her Bachelor Degree in Carleton University, Otawa, Canada in 1983. | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Towards a Unified Vision | Colin Tudge was born in London in 1943; educated at Dulwich College, 1954-61; and read zoology at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1962-65. Ever since then he has earned a living by spasmodic broadcasting and a lot of writing — mainly books these days, but with occasional articles. He has a special interest in natural history in general, evolution and genetics, food and agriculture, and spends a great deal of time on philosophy (especially moral philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the relationship between science and religion). | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Unity of Being: Examples from the Amazon | Aliya Ryan fell in love with the Amazon rain-forest whilst traveling in South America in 1999, and moved to Peru in 2002 after completing a degree in Social Anthropology. There, with friends, she helped found the indigenous rights organization Shinai, working with indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. Over the last six years she has worked with the Nahua, Matsigenka and Achuar peoples and gas exploration on issues including illegal logging, oil and gas exploration and territory management. She also ran campaigns defending the rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. Aliya has produced articles, reports and maps on indigenous land rights issues and is currently co-authoring a book about the Achuar and their relationship with their ancestral territory. Aliya left Peru at the end of 2008, but still involved in indigenous rights issues in Peru and Latin America. | 2/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life, The Educator | Peter Young (b. 1949 London) studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and subsequently mental nursing. He has also studied Ottoman Turkish at Oxford. His interest in education was kick-started by studying Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi's work at the Beshara School in 1975. From this time on he adopted education, or perhaps it was vice-versa, for his life's work, and he has been closely involved with the Beshara School since. He is currently the Principal of the School at the Chisholme Institute, and has run Beshara courses and lectured worldwide. He lives with his wife at Chisholme House, and has four children and currently three grandchildren. | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
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