Often neglected in change processes is the need for the old to die and the new to emerge. However, the bottom of the U, described by Otto Scharmer, has become an important part of our collective understanding on how the New comes into the world.
When we looked at the history of the Berlin Change Days we have been sensing that something was dying. We don’t know what that might mean, therefore we invite you to celebrate the end or co-design a new beginning. At the same time, we want to provide the opportunity the meaning of “letting go – letting come” for our professional work.
We invite you into an outstanding space for gathering, saying goodbye to 2023, maybe to foregone projects, to old stories we want to leave behind, and to celebrate new beginnings.
We are offering a small programme and the focus will be on meeting the tribe, as we have been doing for the last 15 years!
Gathering
Situated on the southern edge of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, the campus of Berliner Union Film Ateliers (BUFA) has been a key part of Berlin’s film and television industry since its first buildings were constructed over a century ago. Now, BUFA is expanding its user base beyond filmmakers to encompass all forms of ‘change makers’, including organisations and individuals with a focus on activism and social justice – catalysed by a sustainable transformation of its physical spaces to become Atelier Gardens.
Opening: Endings and New Beginnings
with Holger Nauheimer, Brigitta Villaronga-Walker and Udo Maar
Intuitive Archery
with Annette Birkholz, Bogenakademie Berlin
Gracefully let go the Old and intentionally manifest the New…
That’s what we want to do with a very archaic ritual: Intuitive Archery. Join us for this deep exercise. You will start by decorating your own wooden arrow shaft with a written mission. After an introduction to intuitive archery you will let go anything that needs to be left behind from the old year. The day will culminate with the closing ritual when you release your own arrow - sending it towards the targets 2024. Not alone but synchronised, connected and inspired: in movement walking the walk of freedom and empowerment.
Open Space: What do we want to begin, and what needs to end?
Lunch
Keynote: 12 Paths to Ecology
with Brendan Myers
The Circle of Life is more than the food web. It’s a self-organizing system of global life-cooperation and energy dissipation. Its balance and stability have been taken for granted for millennia. We will apply Brendan's philosophy the living systems we are operating in, including the Berlin Change Days.
Brendan is the author of twenty-three books in philosophy, environmental ethics, history of ideas, spirituality, urban fantasy fiction, science fiction, and game design. Originally from Elora, Ontario (Canada) Brendan holds a PhD in philosophy from NUI Galway, and now serves as professor at CEGEP Heritage College, in Gatineau, Quebec.
Harvesting
with Brigitta Vllaronga and Udo Maar
Closing ritual
Party
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Dr. Holger Nauheimer
Rosenheimer Str. 5
10781 Berlin
Telefon: +49 172 944 29 82
USt-Id. Nummer: DE 230860512