Accountability: Why We Have Lost It and How We Can Recover It

In this workshop James Quilligan and Claudius Van Wyk lead us on an examination of how we can address our social institutions’ deepening inability to protect and promote our common interests, resources and well-being; civil society and the commons.

This highly interactive workshop will explore how to rebuild accountability making a difference in our own organisations, communities and personal lives.

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The imbalances in the world economically, socially, and culturally can be traced to an imbalance between the right and left brain hemispheres of the human being. Alleviating this imbalance will ultimately enable us to recreate the institutions that govern us; our organisations, our society and the environment. 

Inspired by contributions by James Quilligan and Claudius Van Wyk we will examine how we can address this challenge; exploring the need to reestablish accountability between people and within the individual self, and how we build conversations that lead to trust and accountability, reduce disconnectedness across society and, in turn, regenerate the institutions that govern us.

We will aim to discover how we can take these ideas and make a difference in our own organisations, communities and personal lives.

James Quilligan is the Chairman for the Secretariat of Global Commons Trust and Managing Director of the Centre for Global Negotiations.  He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterand, Edward Heath, Willy Brandt, and Jimmy Carter, and as an economic consultant for government agencies around the world. He is currently collaborating with His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan of Jordan and several United Nations agencies on global commons issues.

Dr Claudius Van Wyk. Drawing on an approach based on holistic science Claudius writes, consults, practices & lectures in integral approaches to personal and organizational transformation and complexity science. He is widely published including for publications associated with the Schumacher College where he recently co-hosted a course on ‘Building an eco-literate world view’.

Morning Workshop

We ran out of time to promote this as a separate event but decided there was still high potential group to meet as a convening group with guests and open the invitation to you if you would like to join.

1) Re-experiencing self in non-verbal interpersonal engagement.

We as individuals, and the institutions we have generated, have been powerfully and invisibly shaped by the language we use. Unknowingly in the use of words we practice autohypnosis.

Regaining the commons is therefore also about regaining, as far as is possible, direct experience. In a one and half hour workshop Ray and Claudius will facilitate an experience of deep engagement - thus creating a powerful enabling context for the conversation with James Quilligan.

2) Awakened World: Engaged Spirituality of the 21st Century.” Rome, Oct 2012. The Dalai Lama has said that one of the most hopeful things about humankind is that our global awareness – our awareness of others beyond our families, friends, neighbors and communities – is growing. He believes this increased caring is the key to improving the world for everyone. It is this ultimate goal – creating a world that works for everyone – that is bringing together spiritual and religious leaders from around the world. 

http://www.agnt.org/awakened2012.html

James will share his insights with us prior to our non-verbal deep engagement opportunity. See below for a bit more background on this.

We won’t set a charge for the workshop but depending on how you found it, if you felt moved to make a contribution towards the costs of convening the forum, it would be welcome.

Lunch will be available at the venue at a charge of £8 for a three-course meal with coffee, cheese, biscuits and fruit.