I would like to announce a forthcoming series of contemplative conversations entitled

“Taking Ownership: conversations exploring a radical sense of responsibility in contemporary Ireland.”
Taking Ownership is a series of contemplative conversations which focus on some of the core issues that we face as a nation. Looking to a radical sense of responsibility as an antidote to our crisis of leadership, this series invites all who are interested to explore the spiritual issues that underlie many of our current social upheavals.

The conversations include a short presentation followed by silent reflection, and thereafter a general sharing of responses. Each of the talks will present one or more transformative truths that, it is hoped, will renew a sense of responsibility between the individual and the collective, between the private and the public, and between the peripheral and the central.

The Taking Ownership series begins on 7th May, 2010 from 7.15pm – 9.15pm. Refreshments will be provided. Admission free. (The Living Room is a money-free zone!)

Friday 7 May 2010 – The Responsibility of the Individual – Professor Ivor Browne
Taking Ownership
Exploring a radical sense of responsibility

How do we create a sane and healthy society that is holistically relational and responsible?

This talk will explore the characteristics of a living system that is intimate enough to counteract the relentless transfer of power and control from the peripheral to the central, from the small to the large, and from the personal to the anonymous and institutional. A self-organizing society is built on a network of life that acknowledges a connection between our minds and our molecules, our emotions and our cells, our souls and our organs, and that ultimately enables a social, financial and political context that is understandable in human terms.

*image of Professor Ivor Browne taken from his book, Music and Madness, Cork University Press