Sessions organised by Ecocivilisation will take place on Saturday, September 26^th and on Sunday, September 27^th .

• Mental Health and AI: 21:00 CEST / 19:00 UTC (September 26^th)
• Art as Medicine: 22:00 CEST / 20:00 UTC (September 26^th)
• Peace Challenged: 12:00 CEST / 10:00 UTC (September 27^th)

About the Connectathon:

The Connectathon is a biannual “24 HR for Earth and Humanity” gathering, where people of good will and curious minds from all over the world meet to connect and speak about the future we want to live into. 

1. We gather and hold space for 24 hours to connect with ourselves, with each other, with our past and with the world. 
2. We explore who we are, where we are and, above all, start creating the story of who we want to be and where we want to go as a species and a civilisation.
3. We take the insights and the new connections we make and create plans of action between here and the next gathering.

September 26^th, at 21:00 CEST / 19:00 UTC
Mental Health and AI

Participants: 

• Rajni Vohra (Founder – WahWoman | Board Member|, curator Ecocivilisation);
• Violeta Bulc (Founder and curator of Ecocivilisation), G100 Global Chair);
• Janja Usenik (Psychologist, researcher and associate professor at the University of Maribor, Slovenia)
• Lalith Gunaratne (Sage Ontario for Mindful Leadership/LGSE Partners Inc.)

Leads for the discussion: 

• How do you see the impact of hi-tech, especially AI, on evolution of humanity?
• Is AI our future or just a distraction?
• How does AI affect the quality of relationships between self and others, society, nature, and the living as a whole?
• Is AI reshaping the undercover drivers of life, like meaning?
• What  can we do to keep our mental health stabil and ready to face the dynamic of life?
• What happens to our inner world when we increasingly turn to technology for answers, reassurance, or guidance? 
• How can we stay deeply human in a world increasingly shaped by AI?
• Can AI ever truly replace the regulating and healing potential of human presence?

September 26^th, at 22:00 CEST / 20:00 UTC
Art as Medicine 

Participants:

• Yuko Kudo (Artist, Community Engagement, Teaching Artist)
• Misa Kanno-Watson (HCPC Art Psychotherapist | Researcher | Bilingual Clinician | Author | Lecturer | BAAT Scotland Race & Culture Rep Mum to 3)
• Robert “Akil” Bell (Wellness Practitioner, Healing Justice and Economic Justice Advocate)
• Clark (Brandon) Sun (Program Development | Licensed Creative Arts Therapist)

Leads for the discussion: 

• TBD
  

September 27^th, at 12:00 CEST / 10.00 UTC
Peace Challenged

Participants:

• Indra Adnan (Founder of The Alternative Global)
• Violeta Bulc (Founder and curator of Ecocivilisation), G100 Global Chair);
• Stefan Blachfellner (Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Department Business Studies, specializing in International Sustainable Business, Digitalization, and Innovation Ecosystems.
• Chenesai Mukora-Mangoma (President Mashonaland East Legal Practitioners Association)
• Ramit Sing Chimni (8one Foundation and International Centre of Humanity)

Leads for the discussion: 

• HOW WOULD YOU CONCEPTUALIZE PEACE?
• If the nation-state developed partly through the requirement to organise security and war, can the same structure become the primary vehicle for making war obsolete?
• Have our institutions become excessively organised around achievement, competition and stimulation?
• What happens when a civilisation systematically rewards one cluster of human capacities while marginalising another?
• What kinds of structures allow the full spectrum of human capacities to participate in shaping collective life?
• What structures allow disagreement, resistance, injustice and competing interests to be transformed without violence?
• Would peace have a better chance if society allowed, respected and cultivated the full authentic spectrum of human capacities, rather than organising power around a narrow model of dominance, competition and control?