6th Interdisciplinary Symposium Part 1
After the planned 6th interdisciplinary symposium „Future – Faith, Hope, Visions“ had to be cancelled in March of this year due to Corona, we are making a new attempt with some of the speakers who had to be cancelled in March.
A sequel is planned for March 6, 2021.
Future.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that sometimes there are unexpected/expected crises, after which things proceed differently.
The future. We all shape it and are shaped by it. It seems that we achieve what we focus on, what we direct our awareness towards, and what we believe is possible.
This raises the question of what predominates within us:
Fear or trust? Isolation or openness? A focus on the individual or a focus on the collective? Or something else entirely, something completely new?
Organizer:
Spiritual work in the Steinfurt-Coesfeld-Borken church district
Friday, November 6, 2020, 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 7, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
preliminary program:
Saturday, November 7, 2020 15.30 Workshops in the Steinfurt area 17:30-17:45 Meditative worship service with elements from the day in the Great or Small Church
Friday, November 6, 2020
Cafeteria with snacks from 5:30 pm
5:45 p.m. Evening meditation Ralf Groß
6:15 p.m. Lecture by Dr. Esther Sühling:
Science fiction using Star Trek – The Original Series as an example
7:30 p.m. Break
7:45 p.m. Lecture by Uli Ahlke:
Because we don't do what we know!
From 9 pm onwards: discussion about the presentations and social gathering (open end)
Arrival from 8:30 am
8.45-9.15 Morning meditation Achim Riggert
9:30 Welcome
9.45 Lecture by Maria Franziska Schüller:
„"And yet it moves" – embodied search for meaning
and pronunciation
11:00 Break
11.15 New! Lecture by Dr. Andreas Weber:
Reality as self – on the path to ecological unity
13:15 Snack and coffee
14:00 – 14:45 Informal exchange with members of the Meditation Westphalia network:
“Spiritual life in this time – how does that work?”
1. Dr. Andreas Weber: ME AND SELF – Experiencing the Whole as the Basis of the Self
2. Maria Schüller: The body knows the next step – experiencing Focusing
3. Uli Ahlke and members of the association "Wiewollenwirleben": From knowledge to action!?
4. Dr. Esther Sühling: The Future in My Biography – Imagination and Design
5. NN: How do I confront the wounds of our time? – Dealing with images and information from the media
6. Marie Kortenbusch: Let there be / New Light. Biblical answers to the fear of the future
7. Dagmar Spelsberg-Sühling: Christian meditation, what it does and how it „works“
8. Simone Rasch: Between Heaven and Earth, Christian Prayer Gestures
9. Andreas Bader: Meditation in Motion – Qi Gong
Cooperation partners:
How do we want to live eV Steinfurt
Meditation Network in the EKvW
Protestant Adult Education in the St. Coe-Bor Church District
Via Cordis eV Regional Group Westphalia
Evangelical Church Parish of Burgsteinfurt (Room Use)
Evangelical Church Parish of Borghorst (Room Use)
Steinfurt Cultural Forum – Adult Education Center (Room Use)
Tourist Office Steinfurt (Hotel and Room Booking Service)
Please send registrations and information, including address and telephone number, to:
Mail: buero@ev-ju.de Telephone: 02573-797 Fax: 02572 – 4246
When registering, please indicate the workshop you are interested in and, if applicable, a preferred alternative.
You will receive all participant information approximately 10 days before the start of the symposium, preferably by email.
Cost:
Friday: 20 euros including a small snack and drinks
Saturday: 50 euros including vegetarian snack and drinks
Both days combined: 65.00 euros. (Cheap drinks available on site)
Discount available
To give you an overview of the program for March 2020, you can find the planned schedule here. Program 2020 view.
How do we envision the future?
Where does our longing lead us?
What gives individuals and the community strength today in the face of frightening scenarios?,
To dare the possible and the impossible? What gives us hope?
A major factor is the meaning we find in our individual lives.
existence and that of our Earth
can. What am I for? What is my purpose?
There is us and this blue one
Planets? What do we want to leave behind?
„"If you want to build a ship,
Then don't drum up men to gather wood and assign tasks.
and to divide the work, but teach the men the
Longing for the vast, endless sea.“
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For many centuries, the biblical creation stories of the 7 days and the Garden of Eden have guided us here „"Let's listen to the sound." We would like to invite you to rediscover longing and hope in conversation with others.
in the West, it tells the where and why of the world, and has visions of the Old and New Testaments.
it nurtured the hope for a happy ending.
In our postmodern age, these narratives are as if "burned out." The "domination of man over the earth" gives
Currently, there is more cause for concern than for hope.
Films and radio plays often paint dark pictures.
Today we have increasingly precise insights from the natural sciences and modern cosmology.
Following this, the cosmos, our Earth, and the
Humanity? What do these new findings mean for us?
What do we base our decision on? What do scientists of our time, who look and think in a new and different way than we do, say?
are you used to? What are your visions?
Is there something in it that can awaken the power of longing?
and can let us set out with the courage to create?
The biblical creation myth of the 7 days was
"Discovered" by scholars in exile around 550 BC; at that time, it succeeded in giving hope, meaning, and
To re-establish faith.
Could we achieve that again today?
With this symposium, we would like to invite you to discover new perspectives – but also to look inward.
listen and watch.
of a new day that begins within us.
Let us not stop hiking,
until we are transformed.“
Marie-Luise Kaschnitz
to find each other, to share their visions and
to formulate, and to take steps towards it with others
to go.
Everyone with an interest is invited.
an exchange!
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