EDUCATION FOR A LIVING SYSTEM

P R E S E N T S

Registration

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Let’s connect to support and
grow our intentions to transform the world around us.

Our heroes, Arie de Geus and Alain de Vulpian, are still guiding us. How their messages are present on the field of Education and Life? In presence of Peter Senge.

The place

One hundred participants will meet at Forum 104, located in the center of Paris, in a room opening into a beautiful garden. Our conversation will include several hundred people from around the world connected remotely.

The intention

In the presence of Peter Senge, the author of The Fifth Discipline Education Book, and the inspiration of remarkable innovations in education, let's go in search of the relevance today of the messages of Alain de Vulpian and Arie de Geus (1). 

With the support of

What words, methods and messages have they conveyed to us? What are the signs of their presence in our society today? How can each of us be present in these movements of metamorphosis for a living and shared world? What learning forward can we gain, amplify and apply across our networks of education innovators in all parts of society? 

Let us enter into a dance between I and We. Let's connect to support and grow our intentions to transform the world around us. 

The future possibility that education holds in our emerging world will be our main focus. When considered deeply, this imperative to re-invent how we learn, individually and collectively, binds all our institutions, from schools to companies, governmental or private organizations.  But there is a reason to focus on education, especially primary and secondary education but also in the universities.  Deep problems require long term solutions.  Children of today will be tomorrow the engineers, businesspeople, government officials, parents and leaders in the adaptation to the high ecological, environmental, political and social critical issues of the XXIst century.  

While Education for Living System touches every aspect/sector of our lives, business and government being the most powerful institutions, education is the only mainstream institution with a 50-75 year time horizon.  Rather than seeing school as an institution of the state doomed to simply preserve the status quo, what can we learn from education innovators?  Where are they? Who are the pioneer organizations? What might we learn if we really listen to the children and young people at the center of these changes - after all, they are far more tied to the future than adults ever can be. What are the present educational responses to today’s unprecedented challenges, from COVID to climate change and inequity? Our vision is to get inspired by the initiatives of remarkable people and teams and to become more connected to and supportive of them after the meeting.

Who is meeting?

We invite people who are engaged in innovating Education for Life to join, share experience, learn and connect: educators, students, teams and leaders of change, facilitators and coaches, social entrepreneurs, living companies executives. 

The hosts are Irène Dupoux-Couturier for Happymorphose and Etienne Collignon for The Learning Person. Happymorphose is an association which aims to link organizations working for the emergence of a living and complex society making its way to a humanist metamorphosis. The Learning Person is an organization that creates and disseminates learning methods for a sustainable world. 

Our exploration

We will address several strong concepts and methods that we have received from Alain de Vulpian and Arie de Geus; what is the meaning of words like “weak signals, scenarios, learning together, socio-perceptive leaders, the living society, the leadership of ordinary men and women, and humanist metamorphosis? Why and how these humanist processes focusing on the future are efficient and successful?

Then, participants will be organized around “learning journeys.” Everyone will be invited to observe the presence and strength of these concepts and methods in practice - by traveling remotely to remarkable organizations that are active in Education for a Living System in a variety of places around the world. These hosts may be schools, educators who work with young people beyond school, an association, or a social entrepreneurs programme; they have in common fostering a systems perspective, compassion and deeper human development, doing this in action in diverse and challenging circumstances, and a strong desire to share and connect with others. These hosts are willing to put their organization at the heart of the discussions, and to welcome other people from all over the world in shared reflection on their experiences. Back in the plenary session, participants will co-elaborate new steps for action.

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