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[GFD Event] Linking Inner and Outer Transformation for Sustainability

January 20, 2025

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Type Lecture
Intended for General public / Enrolled students / International students / Alumni / Companies / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff
Date(s) February 28, 2025 18:00 — 19:00
Location Online
Venue Online: Zoom
Capacity 150 people
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method Advance registration required

Register here:
https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuceyuqTovGtDmh1DRjshQX-5t9NoduzuC

Registration Period January 20, 2025 — February 28, 2025
Contact gfd-tokyo@adm.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Linking Inner and Outer Transformation for Sustainability

Date: Friday, February 28, 18:00-19:00 (JST) 10:00-11:00 (CET)
Online: Zoom
Language: English
Speaker: Christine Wamsler

Abstract

In this seminar, Professor Christine Wamsler will provide a small glimpse into the field of inner transformation for sustainability, related science, and its application in practice. She discusses how we can address today’s polycrisis and the role contemplative practices play in this context. Sustainability science and practice are about finding solutions to complex, global challenges that threaten the existence of humanity and the planet. These threats are generally framed as external to us, and therefore, sustainability work tends to address them with primarily external, technical measures. At the same time, we increasingly understand that these threats are a reflection of an inner, human crisis, a kind of alienation from self, others and nature, which is an integral element of modern life forms. Contemplative approaches can help to address this alienation and are therefore increasingly explored as ways to foster individual, collective and planetary wellbeing and become vehicles for culture and system transformation.

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