Mindfulness: A Critical Appreciation in Times of Climate Crisis
4:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Mindfulness: A Critical Appreciation in Times of Climate Crisis
Sunday, 20. August
Seminar
210
minutes
English
Industrialisation has produced specific styles of perception, which can be characterised as an 'economy of attention': a purposeful orientation of human perception towards predetermined areas, while fading out the periphery of what is perceived or the context of action. Mindfulness, on the other hand, opens up perception to the periphery and to internal and external contexts. And this is exactly what is needed to deal with the climate crisis: the ability to include the consequences of action as comprehensively as possible. The seminar aims to exemplify these connections through practical exercises as well as theoretical input.
Seminar Chair
Patrick Scherhaufer
Senior Lecturer University of Natural Resourses and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Seminar Chair