WSIF Network Summit at the Goetheanum and Online

by Nicole Asis & Joan Sleigh
 

From the 4th to the 8th of August 2021, the World Social Initiative Forum will host “WSIF Network Summit 2021: Living In Between Spaces” in Schreinereisaal at the Goetheanum with simultaneous online streaming and in-presence regional summit hubs. 

“Living in Between Spaces” is an invitation to enter into the vitality and potential of what lives within us, between us, and around us, especially in the face of Climate Change and COVID-19. In live-streamed keynote lectures and panel discussions on Social Threefolding and Climate Action, as well as in in-presence workshops and discussion groups, the WSIF Network and Friends will discuss the pressing issues we are dealing with as a global society. 

Nathaniel Williams from Free Columbia will talk about “Cultural Independence and Individual Development in the Context of the US” while Dottie Zold of Elderberries 3Fold Café will tackle “Making Radical Space for the Other." Annette Massmann of GLS Treuhand will discuss “Ideas and Practices on How to enhance Cooperation and Co-working in the World” and Jean-Michel Florin of the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum will focus on “Towards Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems: The Example of Biodynamics”. 

Gerald Häfner (Section for Social Sciences - Goetheanum), Ute Craemer (Monte Azul), Helmy Abouleish (SEKEM), Andrea Valdinoci (World Goetheanum Association), Maaianne Knuth (Kufunda Village), Krishna Gurung (Kevin Rohan Memorial Foundation), Simone de Picciotto (Hit the Beat), Rodrigo Rubido (ELOS), Kait Ziegler (Poor People's Campaign) and Sergio Gaiti (Etica Sostenibile) will also share their ideas and experience on how they manifest aspects of Social Threefolding in their work and respective organizations in the panel discussions. Continue reading here: Living In Between Spaces  

For information and registration, visit http://wsif.org/event/network-summit-2021/.

Building a Living Network as a living organism in which each independent entity is recognized in its singularity, while gaining value through its interconnectedness with the whole. During the Network Summit, we will explore how to Build a Living Network through three lenses: Leadership, Vulnerability and Commitment. 

Open forum on Leadership
Leadership emerges from self-leadership as the ability to access and act from a place of authentic wisdom. Leaders encourage others to lead from their own individual capacities while holding the vision of the interrelated whole. They are able to know themselves, name themselves and be themselves.

Open Dialogue for Vulnerability
Vulnerability is the birthplace of leadership and authenticity. It builds courage and creativity. No act of authentic leadership or artistic process comes about without being grounded in vulnerability. It implies feeling into the unknown potential of endless possibility.

Open Space for Commitment
Commitment is being true to one’s own unique self in relation to everything around. It implies actively stepping into and taking up a common purpose with others, thereby enabling the independent solitary human being to be an agent of the interrelated whole.

Click here for more information on the Network Summit 2021.