Topics
Talks are going to be a key element of Poesis, to give a flavour, the sorts of questions we may explore are:
Philosophy
What constitutes a good life and how might this help us to respond to the planetary changes?
What it means to be human at this point in time?
Nature
What does nature need from us right now, beyond stopping carbon emissions and waste?
How do we reshape our relationship to nature?
History
What can learning about past civilizations teach us about our situation today?
Science & Technology
Which technologies are exacerbating our problems, which are distracting fantasises, which are vital for the future?
Economy
What do we need to measure to have an economy that serves human flourishing?
What does an economy that recognises all impact of economic production look like?
Democracy/Politics
How do we build longer term thinking into our politics?
How do we create the conditions to support great leadership?
How can citizens be more directly involved with governance of our locality?
Organisations
How do organisations need to respond to the changing complex world?
What’s the leadership we really need now and into the future?
Society
How does intentional social change come about? What tools are there to help us?
As we seek to build more resilient communities, how do we need to rethink about the relationship between individual freedom and social responsibility? What might we lose, what might we gain?
Culture
How can we move away from seeing ourselves as consumers towards seeing ourselves as citizens?
What do we need to do and how we need to be to thrive as a civilization?
Psychology
Why as individuals do we find it so hard to break the rules of our system, even though it is taking us down an existential path?
What has meaning for us?
Religion/Spirituality
What do we need to learn from all the ancient religions and spiritual practices to help us in this time?
Art
What role does art have to play in response to the many planetary changes we face?
And many more