A New Activism webinar with Bayo Akomolafe

In this webinar, Local Futures’ Director, Helena Norberg-Hodge, is joined by Nigerian poet, author and activist Bayo Akomolafe for a lively and challenging conversation about activism today.

As our global crises deepen, many are coming to question activism altogether. Widespread assumptions undermine meaningful action: it is believed that people are greedy and aggressive by nature, that they don’t incorporate new information into their thinking, and that they are simply unwilling to change. Helena and Bayo discuss these and other assumptions, and explore new directions that can help us resist the corporate-led consumer-culture while renewing local economies and our deep connections to others and to nature.

We questioned these assumptions, and explored new and creative directions that can help us resist the corporate-led consumer-culture while renewing local economies and our deep connections to others and to nature. We addressed the need for both inner and outer change – avoiding self-righteousness while caring for ourselves to avoid burn-out. We looked at “big picture activism” as a strategic way forward – a means to forge a powerful movement for fundamental change.

Presenters:
Adebayo Clement-Akomolafe, Ph.D (Nigeria) describes himself as a ‘recovering professor’, and is the Initiating/Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network as well as Lecturer at Covenant University, Nigeria. The host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence.’ Bayo is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change.

Helena Norberg-Hodge (Australia) is the founder and director of Local Futures/ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Local is Our Future.

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