The Future of Wellbeing: Tomas Björkman, The Ekskäret Foundation

What is needed for people, communities and societies to transform? Where can we meet other people and build trust and understanding together? How can we create inner transformation? How can we create a mindset where we can change the world? Worldwide known author, speaker and activist Tomas Björkman leads The Eksäret Foundation.   Tomas Björkman explains the need for collective shift for us all as a global society:  “From a historical and material perspective, the majority of humanity is no doubt doing better than ever; but at what cost? We live in an unfolding and ever more urgent climate crisis. And our polarised societies seem guided by ineffectual leadership. My take on the world is that it is no longer enough to simply “solve problems”. The complexity and inter-relationship between problems mean that all our challenges have elements relating to human thought and emotion. We have to re-orientate by better learning how to evolve and adapt. I use the phrase “we have to”, because we are at what physists term a bifurcation point. Our civilisation will either go forward at a higher level of more complex organisation, or break down. In short: we need to shift our minds and our hearts on a grand collective scale. We need new, deeper ways of relating to ourselves, to each other and to the world. We also need “new maps” of our very existence as the current ones are both antiquated and increasingly revealed as inaccurate. The good news is that humanity has undergone major collective shifts before! My work is dedicated to contributing to increasing our chances of doing that again, while there is (still!) time.” -- The Ekskäret Foundation is a Swedish non-profit organisation which aims to facilitate the co-creation of a more conscious and sustainable society. The Foundation was founded in 2009 with a focus on the connection between life-long personal inner development and growth and societal development. It has developed spaces, arenas and contexts for inquisitive exploratory meetings, dialogue and lifelong transformative learning. Starting with youth camps the Foundation offers workshops, programs, conferences and work labs in personal development and social transformation. All with the purpose to increase our individual and collective capacities to be active co-creators of a more sustainable and conscious society. Read more about Tomas Björkman and The Ekskäret foundation here: http://ekskaret.se/