In communities around the world the power of the people is at work
regaining control of our ailing food systems. According to the latest
book from Food First, the global food movement is diverse, widespread,
refreshingly creative and tremendously powerful. Food Movements Unite!
Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems brings us the words, insights
and vision of the remarkable farmers, workers and consumers from rural
and urban communities around the globe as they address the critical
question:
How can we unite to transform the global food system?
The 21 activists and practitioners contributing to this work write “from the trenches” of the food, fuel and environmental crises have much to say about our food future and the potential of this unprecedented “movement of movements.” From the writings of Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, to João Pedro Stédile of the Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movement, this insightful book is a window into the thinking and actions of the people committed to bringing us affordable, healthy food in ways that harm neither the planet nor its people.
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Praxis Peace Institute is organizing its fourth 5-day workshop/seminar with the Mondragón Cooperatives in the Basque country of Spain. The purpose of the seminar is to learn about worker owned businesses from the leading consortium of cooperatives in the world. Praxis organized two previous seminars at the Mondragón Cooperatives (2008 and 2010).
With more than 50 years of experience, the Mondragón Cooperatives now encompass 264 worker-owned businesses, employ more than 100,000 worker-owners, and have production plants on four continents. Their democratic model of management and humanitarian commitment to social responsibility, are pivotal factors in their long-term success. Mondragón describes their organizational ethic as “an environment in constant economic, social and political evolution.”
Highlights include:
• The culture and values of Mondragón.
• Visits to cooperative businesses, including a youth cooperative and an incubator for new cooperative projects.
• A presentation of Mondragón projects for developing countries.
• Learn about the financial mechanisms of Mondragón: how it works, why it thrives.
• Mondragón’s Corporate Management Model.
• Visit Mondragón University and the education center where the Mondragón movement began.
• How to transfer the Mondragón Experience to our communities.
The seminar will include 4 days of presentations and tours of Mondragón businesses. On the 5th day, Praxis Peace Institute will host a day of discussion and brainstorming on ways in which these ideas can be used in our communities back home and how we can find support for cooperative business ventures.
For more infomation, visit: www.praxispeace.org
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This seminar offers an opportunity to both experience and learn about embodying an integral perspective through a deeper understanding of integral theory and its application in the areas of ecology and education.
Integral Education and Integral Ecology are two emerging fields, propelled by people who seek to push the envelope of what these two ways of being present and active in the world have to offer. This two-strand seminar will provide an inspiring environment to meet with colleagues and to network with a small but growing community that clearly understands that addressing a more complete spectrum of personal, cultural, and systemic realities at play in the universe is one of the most powerful ways to begin creating the changes we hope to see in the world.
Some of the core questions explored in the seminar will be:
How can our work in education and/or ecology coherently address the whole human being, a being of body, mind, and spirit, immersed in cultural meaning making, social structures, and natural systems?
How can we embody an integral perspective in all aspects of our work, vision, and personal practices ?
In a universe unfolding into increasing consciousness and complexity, how can we work not only to develop current capacities, but also to create the conditions for the emergence of more complex perspectives in the future?
Certain segments of the event will be held with everyone, with participants from both seminars, while others will allow for participants to dive into the exploration of either integral education or integral ecology.
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