Schedule
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Friday October 6th Program
5 PM - 7 PM - Arrival & Registration & Optional Collective Meditation
7 PM - 8 PM: Dinner
8 PM - 10 PM: Land Acknowledgment; Matt Oppenheim's book introduction; Cooperative Games - Welcoming Expectations for the Conference & Introduction to our Programs & Presentations
Saturday October 7th
5 AM - 8:00 AM - Individual & Collective Meditation, Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM -John Linkhart, Alberta Pedroja: "Community Driven Recovery and Transition" (CDRT)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: A Conversation with Bill Ayers: When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer
Bill Ayers is a retired Department of Education Professor at the University of Illinois - Chicago. His foucs was on social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues. He is also known by some for his activism in the late 1960's and early 1970's for his involvement and leadership in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and later with the Weather Underground. His Podcast is Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom. He is also the author of multiple books and articles.
Register for this event separately if you are not attending the conference in person: Register at proutalliance.org/events
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Free Time
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM:
James Quilligan, with the Economic Democracy Advocates' presentation and Q & A: "Ecological Economics and Sustainable Yield
2:00 - 3:30 PM:
Roar Bjonnes, Howard Nemon, and Alex Jackimovicz presentation: "Positioning Prout to Progressive Movements"
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Announcements about Sunday program flow
3:45 - 6:00 PM Free Time
6:00 - 7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 - 10:00 PM Evening Cultural Permonances & Good News About Prout - led by Radha & Dada Veda.
We will also feature a short presentation from Steve Phillips from Maui, Hawaii - about the devastating fires in Lahaina - the indigenous capital prior to US colonization and the work of Local Harvest Hawaii that Steve & his wife founded and is doing amazing work in feeding thousands of people - along with helping Maui move to greater food self-sufficiency. https://www.amurt.net/hawaii-fires/ & https://www.localharvesthawaii.com/
Sunday October 8th
5 AM - 8:00 AM - Individual & Collective Meditation, Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Breakout sessions into three main categories: economic, climate, social/justice for collective Prout focus.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Collective strategic discussion session: What goals and targets do we wish to collectively consider proposed by the breakout groups?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM Collective cohesion: discussion about organizing working groups around new focuses/targets goals
2:00 - 3:30 PM Working Group/Committee formation and breakouts
3:30 - 4:30 PM Collective discussion: sharing plans of working groups
4:30 - 5:00 PM. Collective discussion: sharing plans of working groups
5:00 - 5:30 PM. Free Time
5:30 - 7:30 Optional Collective Meditation
7:30 - 8:30 PM Dinner
8:30 - 10:00 PM Open
Monday October 9th
5 AM - 8:00 AM - Individual & Collective Meditation, Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Working group breakout sessions, steering committee meeting
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Closing Ceremony
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Brunch
12:00 PM - Departures
Our Hosts:
The Prout Research Institute (PRI) of Asheville NC - is located within walking distance of where we will be staying at the Prama Institute, Dada Maheshvarananda is about half-way finished with building the home for the PRI. Here is a recent picture of where the PRI is today. We will have a guided tour by Dada.
The Prama Institure is where we will be staying and having our meetings. They will also be preparing delicious sentient vegetarian meals for us.
Saturday Program October 7th
- A Guided tour of the Prout. Research Institute - under construction - with Dada Maheshvarananda (the director of PRI)
- A presentation on Prout members service to the wildfire victims in Maui, Hawai with Steve Philips, director of Local Harvest Hawaii - based in Maui.
- Panel on Prout activities and projects in the US and globally.
- Art & Music for Service to Humanity - evening Cultural Program
- Collective Meditation, Yoga and 3 delicious vegetarian meals prepared by cooks from the Prama Institute.
Sunday Program October 8th
- Review Prout Alliance's accomplishments and challenges n the past year of Planning our Prout Alliance work for the coming year.
- Reviewing the 3 year Goals established at the Prout Global Convention in July 2023 in Denmark and looking for opportunities for partnership with Proutist Universal, Economic Democracy Advocates and the Systems Change Alliance.
- Develop Goals for the work of Prout in the coming year.
- Collective Meditation, Yoga and 3 delicious vegetarian meals prepared by cooks from the Prama Institute.
Monday October 9th Program
- Meeting of the Standing Committees of the Prout Alliance
- Meeting of the Prout Alliance Steering Committee.
- Collective Meditation, and Yoga
- 2 delicious vegetarian meals prepared by cooks from the Prama Institute.
- Finish by 2:00 PM