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Celebrate Account of the 6th Celebrate Life Festival
from 30. 07. to 09. 08. 2009
The theme of this year’s festival was „Consciousness & Evolution – Awakening into a New Culture“ and with more than 1,000 visitors – among them over 100 children and teenagers – it turned out to be a celebration of superlatives. In talks and workshops more than 40 presenters and artists offered an ambitious, informative programme of high quality. Particular highlights were the phone interview with consciousness researcher Ken Wilber, who presented integral approaches as solutions for the global problems, and the skype interviews with Byron Katie and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Byron Katie demonstrated her method of self-exploration – „The Work“ – in an easily accessible way and the futurologist Barbara Marx Hubbard brought in her vision of the „Conscious Evolution“.
Unesco adviser Dr. Scilla Elworthy touched the participants with a presentation and workshop on the topic of holistic peace work and possibilities for conflict resolution.
The daily meditations, sharings and tonings with Thomas Hübl offered a consistent framework for exploring even profounder levels of existence and for gaining deeper contact to other participants.
Dance and music formed part of the festival’s celebration as well. Biodanza, Trance Dance and concerts helped to relax and unwind.
This year’s festival theme of a new culture and a new We was apparent in a perceptibly new and supportive quality in the encounters among people as well as in a sustained spirit and special atmosphere throughout all of the 10 days. The staff team consisted of 60 volunteers, who saw to a smooth running of the event, and 15 assistants, who could be consulted for individual sessions supporting personal processes. The outer frame for the festival was Hof Oberlethe with its perfectly organized infrastructure and a wonderful idyllic ambience.
During this non-profit fund-raiser three different charities – „Hands with Hands“, „Infinite Earth“ and „Global Awareness Association“– were able to collect altogether € 25,668 as donations.
A further alignment towards the future is developing through expanding networking of the various visionary directions and ideas. Thus the festival served as platform for forming and developing projects and visions within a new culture and a new We. An interactive bulletin board is going to support these possibilities of exchange in the future.
Melanie Grambow – Organizer team
13.09.09
www.celebrate-life.info
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Ken Wilber
Born in 1949, is today’s leading integral philospher. His 20 books have been released in more than 25 languages, making him into the single US American author whose work has been translated most widely. He is the originator of the Integral Approach and combines in his works an enormous width of schools of thought, scientific approaches and spiritual wisdom traditions. He lives and works in Denver, U.S.A.
www.kenwilber.com
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Byron Katie
Byron Katie is the originator of The Work. This method is based on Byron Katie’s own experience of how suffering is generated and how it is ended. She developed this self-examination process in 1986 after going through a life-changing awakening (awakening to reality). Since then Byron Katie has passed The Work on to thousands of people around the world.
www.thework.com
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Johannes Heimrath
The co-founder and executive director of the Club of Budapest WorldShift Foundation is engaged in the global transformation process and the place of the individual in this complex event. He highlights the question of how we become a creative member of the transformed humanity and secure the material and spiritual ressources for our communities.
www.club-of-budapest.de
www.johannesheimrath.de
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Norman Blanchard
Norman Blanchard (right) is a healer and clairvoyant of particular potency who for nearly 30 years has been supporting numerous people through workshops and individual sessions on their life paths. Through his gentle heart-based energy work he offers multifaceted assistance, supporting people in becoming aware of their full potential and realizing it in their daily lives.
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Scilla Elworthy
Founder of the organization PeaceDirect and writer on defense and security topics, Scilla Elworthy is an inspiring public speaker in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan. Sie looks at the question of how the new consciousness transforms conflicts and offers strategies for the transformation of hot conflicts.
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/scilla_elworthy.html
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Barbara Marx Hubbard
Noted author and futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard is at the forefront of an emergent ‘post-conventional’ worldview called ‘Conscious Evolution’. She posits that evolutionary forces characterized by intensified social and technological creativity, deepening spirituality and environmental systems awareness are now coming together to enable the global change.
www.BarbaraMarxHubbard.com
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Michael Habecker
Engaged in Ken Wilber’s work and Integral Spirituality since 1985, Michael Habecker presents Ken Wilber’s integral map and its application to the topic of spirituality. This map is an attempt to place all dimensions, perspectives and developments of spirituality in an overall context.
www.integrale-bibliothek.info
www.kenwilber.de
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