‘Re Greening Our Lives’ towards Strengths Based Practices Conference 

Has the essential focus on three aspects of our living on this Planet.

1         Population

2         Environment and 

3         Human Services

Scope of the Conference

By reaffirming the fundamental faith in the centrality of population, environment and human services this conference provides an opportunity to review the greening and re-greening processes that are taking place in different nations, and different communities but in their own silos.   In most societies today public responsibilities are devolving, local initiatives are being encouraged, rapid changes in the human services and welfare sectors are occurring. These are our new opportunities and challenges for human development. In our rapidly changing societies a more participative people centred community engagement and collaborative practice is needed today.

Central Themes

1         Well being of human kind

2         Environment centring

3         Sustainable approaches

4         What is going right today? and

5         How can we continue to do that right thing even in the future?

Many cultures in human history have recognized the need for harmony between the environment, society and economy. What is new is an articulation of these ideas in the context of a global industrial and information society.

 This Conference is about today and tomorrow

It is about creating new metaphors, practical insights that will get us through today and into the future

Who will attend?

Scientists, Planners, Management Professionals, Psychologists, Educationists, Economists, Social Scientists, Spiritual leaders, Human Services Workers,  Health activists, Specialists in mainstream and alternate health visions, Psycho Social and therapy professionals, Public Administrators Politicians in office, Activists  from Indigenous, Environmental and Political arena, workers in areas of Human Rights, Children’s, Young peoples and Women Health and Artists from around the world. We will call them Elders- ( 35-100 years of age )

Young men and women, (18-35 years of age) from different professions, trades and activities, with formal and informal persuasions, researchers and students, doctoral and post doctoral workers, activists from indigenous, environmental and political arena, youth workers,  health and allied health and young artists from around the world.

How is this different from previous plethora and myriads of conferences?

Young People talk and we listen

A deliberate departure in this conference from previous attempts is to bring to the forefront, the youth of our nations. The Conference aims to integrate the growing aspirations and ambitions of youth and signal the journey of hearing to the future leaders. Also it wishes to programme some select narratives, success stories and joint approaches and papers from the  Scientist and the Social Worker, the technologist and the user, the political elites and their subjects, an industrialist and  an end user, urban planners and citizens, activists, journalists and  the expert in discourse with the laypeople.

Mutual reflection and mutually listening as opposed to living in silos and hoping for technological fixes for our society: This is our goal.

Expectations

What happens in the Conference?

What  happens after the conference?

Will there be a follow-up?

Firstly it is an expectation that young men and women and elders in mentoring roles meet have conversations and prepare wide ranging strategies and tempaltes for Greening Our lives

Secondly young people and mentors return to their respective countries to launch a movement in their own habitat

Thirdly a five year strategy towards Greening Our lives will be born at this boot camp and

Fourthly and  hopefully all  Re-greening of Our Lives-2012  participants will meet for yet another conversation 5 years from now.

Conversations that take place in this Conference will assist each participant upon return to their country to organise, re-focus their learned content and highlight on local issues and attempt re-greening strategies

Nominations:

Mentor group: 35-100 ages

If you are a leader today, send us a post card express your interest and let us all join together in a mentoring opportunity. This is your opportunity to prepare, nurture and leave your legacy.

Youth Group: 18-35 ages

If you happen to be young and consider yourself out of the ordinary, have a vision about human values, what kind of society we need to build?  Or wish to talk about your friend, colleague who could come to this conference connect with us or join in.

Participants will be included for their commitment, uniqueness in continuing their passion for re greening our lives.  Self nominations are encouraged with a short blurb about themselves and an expression of interest around the theme of the conference.

An ever greening world cannot be born until each of us as civil citizens see and recognise the human and the non human side of our natural behaviours.   Re greening our Lives-  2012 is your opportunity to work with today’s best leaders, prepare your ground and shape your destiny. - Over three days, in what   we would call as ‘The Base Camp’

Isn’t this the time for big words from the mind to change into words of the heart?

Time for using information, intuition and common sense in the wake of our existing crisis?  and to ask experts to unmask their language and to nurture intergenerational understanding?

Isn’t’ it time for a conference that sets trends and resolves to re-green our lives!

Who DRIVES THESE INITIATIVES?

A small group of professionals, public servants, media and management professionals, carers, social workers, educationists and academics from Brisbane, called the Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice.

These are practitioners of Strengths based philosophies and they volunteer in the community. Positive people, promoting inward looking, human values and resilience through powerful low cost but meaningful initiatives in people change and hope building.  Same people who brought the first Global Strengths Based Strategies Conference in 2006- India; Coping and Resilience in 2009 - Dubrovnik, Croatia,  Strengths based Practice Training- 1 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2010, Coping, Resilience and Hope Building, July 2010, Brisbane Australia,  and have announced the Re –Greening of Our Lives- 2012 We hope you will be involved.

Express your interest to the President of the Brisbane Institute of Strengths based Practice. dr.venkat.pulla@gmail.com