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Languages: German and English with translation where needed.
Participation in the event is free thanks to Erasmus funding. Donations that support our work are welcome.
Background
The challenges of our time – from interaction amongst us humans to deal with nature – demand to find and tread new paths how we live, do business, work, meet each other, and how we think. How can we learn to treat ourselves and our planet differently? How can we transform ourselves personally and as a society? What does learning for a sustainable society look like? How can we, instead of fear scenarios and compulsion, use and strengthen curiosity, creativity, and the desire to contribute as impulses for development?
The Visionautik Akademie has been pursuing these questions since it was founded in 2008, by accompanying social entrepreneurs and visionaries and by researching and experimenting with methods to learn and innovate.
The concept of transformative learning according to Jack Mezirow has highly inspired us and so we have worked intensively with it for the last two years as part of an Erasmus project. Together with 4 European partner organizations we grappled and further developed it, collected, and tried out transformative methods. The result, among other things, is “A Transformative Edge”, a book with personal stories, knowledge, inspiration, and a comprehensive collection of approaches and methods of transformative learning.
It is a pleasure for us to share these treasures with you and to offer you a few samples to try out yourself :-) – on the 150th birthday of the educational pioneer Maria Montessori, in a place that continuously transforms death into life!