News Archive Holistic City Festival in Rome
Damanhur representatives traveled to Rome, bringing energy, excitement and news to the public at the Holistic City Festival, organized by Conacreis.
The theme of the festival was “Environmental crisis and economic recession: proposals by social advancement associations and ecovillages to construct a sustainable world.” Roundtable talks touched on the following themes: holistic disciplines, Cultural Creatives for a more ethical and conscious world, with an intervention given by Ervin Laszlo, ecovillages and cohousing, and the development of local economies and organic agriculture.
During the festival, Damanhur presented the new display of the Temples of Humankind. Damanhur made many fruitful contacts, including a notable sociologist Enrico Cheli.
Many stimulating conferences were given, including one by Manuela Pompas on medicine and the holistic vision of the human being, with a particular focus on prevention. Workshops ranged from yoga and spontaneous dance to the Enneagram and family constellation work. A multiplicity of fair trade and sustainability-oriented businesses were present at the festival, as well as natural product offerings and an organic supermarket, restaurant and cafe on-site.
