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50 Years of Prout Work &
Looking to the Future with Ravi Logan
This Program will touch on the following topics:
• a few lessons from the history of Prout work
• a common synthetic strategy for the Prout movement
• learning and teaching Prout as a socio-economic theory
• a practical framework for operationalizing Prout
Ravi Logan's History with Prout
He gave his first Prout class in 1972, beginning a long history of engagement in various aspects of Prout work.
Propagation: In 1975, he published A New Ideology for a New Era, the first Prout book outside India. He’s now published eight Prout books, including his 600-page text, Prout: A New Paradigm of Development. He’s also had 94 articles published in Prout Magazine. He was the editor of the PROUT Times monthly newspaper and a co-editor of the Prout Institute’s, Common Future magazine. In 2024, he became the lead writer for the Crisis and Transition Substack which projects Prout content on the Substack platform. He’s lectured on Prout in 16 countries.
Movement: In 1975, along with John Linkhart, he undertook a regional cooperative organizing initiative, the first Prout movement activity in North America. And in 1980 he started the Cascadian Commonwealth Movement, the first samaj movement in North America. In 2012, he was a co-organizer of the Economic Democracy Conference. Along with others in the Northwest Prout Collective, he’s recently re-engaged with samaj work in the Cascadia Bioregion.
Consulting and Policy development: In 1993, he was the lead author of the Khabarovsk Report, commissioned by the Governor of the Russian state of Khabarovsk. He was the lead author of the two policy papers that have been ratified by the Global Prout Policy Parliament. In 2023, he collaborated on the CDRT disaster scenario planning initiative. In 2024, he was a primary author of Crisis and Transition: A Common Path Forward, a Prout strategy paper reviewed and contributed to by over 30 active Proutists globally.
Models: In the mid 2010s, he had a leading role with the Prout Institute's consulting work in the Langeland, Denmark integrated development initiative. He was the project lead for work on the Dharmalaya and Vistara campuses, which are models of Permaculture whole system design. And he was the main organizer for the River Rd neighborhood integrated development scheme, which attempts to apply master unit concepts to holistic neighborhood development. He’s presently working with the South Lane County regenerative development initiative, which would include elements of block planning.
Training: He gave his first Prout training in Seattle in 1975. From 2008-2011, he was lead trainer for the Prout Institute's 6-week Community Transformation residential training programs. In 2020, he co-founded Transformation Education to provide online classes and courses on all aspects of Prout, recordings of which are now available on the Transformation Education Teachable site. He’s also led Prout Design Charrettes.
Organization: In 1974, he became the first Prout worker outside of India, posted as acting Chief Secretary, one of many Prout posts he’s held. In 1989, he collaborated with Ramesh Bjonnes in establishing the PROUT Institute, which he later re-established at its present Dharmalaya campus location. He recently collaborated on establishing the Northwest Prout Collective, a Prout group that includes a diverse group of Proutists with various organizational affiliations.
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