Helena Norberg-Hodge – Ancient Futures: Recovering our Sacred Connections

Can people power turn the tide?

Today humanity has a choice between two diametrically opposing paths: on the one hand global economic forces, with the help of governments, are pulling us into an ever-more competitive, fast-paced, urban future. At the same time, from the bottom up, there is a widespread cultural turning, bringing us back to our spiritual, evolutionary connections to the web of life. People are recognizing that connection, both to others and to Nature, is the true wellspring of happiness, and long for more cooperative, feminine, community-based, ecological futures. In almost every country, farmers’ markets, permaculture, community co-ops, local finance and business alliances, place-based education and nature reconnection testify to this great shift in values. In these ways, people are already sowing the seeds for a very different future, and demonstrating the way forward, towards a localised future. 

In this talk, Helena Norberg-Hodge will argue that shifting economic policies from global to local is a systemic path away from a fragmented, confused and ever more violent world dominated by distant economic forces, towards a more interconnected world that is the foundation of both human and ecological wellbeing. 

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About the speaker:

Helena Norberg-Hodge, linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the Planet Local Summit. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Futureand producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, of Planet Local and Closer to Home. She is the founder of the International Alliance for Localisation, and a cofounder of the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

Helena is a recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

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