What is common in old paradigm political worldviews is the strong insistence to historic dividedness and cultural differences as well as the complete lack or rejection of the holistic approach in dealing with grave social, political, and ecological problems. The vision and practice of a wisdom based society can turn knowledge into organic and holistic practices to replace gradually the old paradigm of a knowledge-based society. There are, however serious signs of fundamental change both in the functioning of the world system and in the way of thinking about it and analyzing it. The construction of a new narrative to take us into the future requires the input of each of us, and the time for action is now

Professor Sándor Kerekes introduced Environmental Education to the Corvinus University of Budapest in the early 1990s and soon after founded the Department of Environmental Economics and Technology. He published dozens of books and textbooks on environmental management and exonomics. A decade later he became Academic Director of the MBA programmes at Corvinus School of Management and in recent years served as Vice Rector of the University. Professor Kerekes also promoted preventive environmental practices in the region and founded the Hungarian Cleaner Production Center as well as served as the national coordinator of the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies. He has been Vice President of the National Environmental Council, member of the President’s Environmental Scientific Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Hungarian Accreditation Body’s Economic and Business Administration Committee. In 2013, he was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Warsaw School of Business and currently heads the Doctoral School for Management and Business Administration at Kaposvár University – Hungary.

Jody Jensen is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is the director of international relations at the Institute of Social and European Studies which she helped to found. For many years she was the Hungarian and then regional director of the international NGO Ashoka: Innovators for the Public which supports social entrepreneurship around the world. She teaches frequently abroad and also works for the European Commission in Brussels for the Jean Monnet Program and the Erasmus Mundus Program. Her major fields of research and publication include globalization, global governance, transformation of the nation state, governing global markets and global civil society.

Some of her most recent publications include: Reframing Europe’s Future, ed. with Ferenc Miszlivetz, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2014; Globalizáció es Új Kormányzás, MTA Társadalomtudományi Intézet, Politikatudományi Intézet, Mundus Novus Könyvek, 2014; Global Challenges – European Answers: The Rise of Glocality in Europe, with Ferenc Miszlivetz. Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2013; Globalizing Governance in a Multi-Stakeholder World. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010; From Transition to Globalization: New Challenges for Democracy, the Media and Society, with József Bayer, Budapest: MTA Institute of Political Science, 2007; Europe Bound: Faultlines and Frontlines of Security in the Balkans, Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2004.

Ferenc Miszlivetz is a Jean Monnet professor ad personam, sociologist and political scientist and a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Science. His research interests include democracy in theory and practice, civil society, citizenship, regional and European Studies, globalization and sustainability. He is the academic director of the Institute for Global and European Integration Studies at the Corvinus University and scientific advisor at the Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy. Professor Miszlivetz has taught, lectured and done research in numerous universities in Europe and the United States including UC Berkeley and Harvard. He is a permanent visiting professor at the University of Bologna. In 2012 he was a Deák Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. Professor Miszlivetz is also the founder and director of the board of the Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES) Foundation and a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainability in Kőszeg.

In this session, we will work together to harvest the learnings from day 1 plus the insights and experiences of exploring the “7^th generation”, so that we can take them with us as a common basis for action moving forward. Through a simple co-creative process – rooted firmly in personal experience that is then effectively integrated into group expression – 7 qualities, values or principles will emerge from our collective presence – these will be the guides, the frame-of-reference, for our positive, evolutionary action in the future. We will then have the opportunity to develop visions, plans and commitments for action at the personal and group levels to ensure that the value of our time together benefits the greater whole in the most positive and effective way, becoming “the change we wish to see”.