The New Group of World Servers Seminar is taking place every seven years. The one week festival, from December 21 to December 28, happens, simultaneously, in three venues: Geneva, New York and London.
The opening event in Geneva, hosted by the World Good Will Office, Geneva, brought together an engaged audience, interactive group work and a set of inspiring keynote sessions – ranging from Marina Bernadi of Communità Etica Vivente, Italy; Dr. Alejandro Bonilla Garcia of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Mexico; Phillip Lindsay, UK, a researcher into Ageless Wisdom; George Anthon, Rumania, President of the World Organisation of Prenatal Education Associations; and TRANS4M’s co-founder Alexander Schieffer.
Introduced by Mintze van der Velde, Director of World Good Will Geneva, Schieffer focussed on introducing the Integral Worlds Approach and a variety of real life showcases of TRANS4M’s global practice: from Switzerland to India, Jordan, Slovenia and Egypt, among others. Particular emphasis was given to demonstrate how TRANS4M’s practical cases serve as role models for living out a “one life perspective” – as integral development continuously seeks to co-create holistic living designs, that interconnect personal, organisational and societal “wholeness” – thereby purposefully addressing burning issues in societies. The subsequent Q&A session surfaced the positive resonance of the audience with the Integral Worlds approach as an expression of “world serving” – opening the door for future co-engagement.
This inspiring event has been another showcase of us witnessing ever higher levels of global alignment of institutions and initiatives that seek to contribute positively to the world, with a more integrated perspective on life.
Evoking the power and practice of the one undivided life, as proposed by World Good Will, is certainly an aspiration, field of research-to-innovation and living practice that TRANS4M, as a Geneva based center and as a global network, remains committed to.
