Hi all and welcome to the discussion around Global Wellbeing Economies!
We are delighted to share with you some work we have been doing over the last year, and we would love for all of you to be part of it!
But first, let us share some details about what the Global Wellbeing Economies programme is.
The Global Wellbeing Economies (GWE) programme is a 2-year programme to create a vision of a global economic architecture in service of social and ecological justice, determine key changes required to fulfil that vision and develop and execute strategies to advocate for those changes.
In order to reimagine our global economic system so that it supports the flourishing of all life on this earth, we engaged visionary thinkers from both outside and inside the wellbeing economy movement who shared their insights while drawing on (where relevant) aligned reform initiatives.
These reform initiatives comprise legislation, pilot programmes, international movements, and global networks amongst other initiatives. You can find here a document with a brief description of what these initiatives entail.
At the same time, during the discussions with the visionary thinkers, six main themes were identified that resonate across these initiatives: embracing home; in service of life; sharing the sacred; respecting self-determination, sovereignty, and dignity; expanding our time horizons; learning, practicing, and governing together.
We would like to invite you to comment on this RAG Analysis answering the following three questions by replying directly below:
What are the necessary pathways to get these initiatives into place e.g. support from global institutions, local mobilisation/ collective will, political will?
Can you provide your own comments on the initiatives and the indicated colours keeping in mind that:
red: no relevance to the theme
light red: very limited/ little relevance to the theme
orange: some relevance to the theme
light green: satisfying relevance to the theme
dark green: strong relevance to the theme
Hi Anna, many comments were provided in Costa Rica on these 6 themes during a session, which aimed at getting participant views on whether they agreed or disagreed with the themes, what was missing, what should be added, what should be amended, and so on.
It would make sense to first get a recap of that, such that we’re talking about the latest set rather than the pre-meeting set of themes.
It’s a real pleasure to reach back out to the whole group.
After receiving some very thoughtful feedback on early drafts of the videos we have been producing of the gathering, we will shortly have the final edit available for you to view.
We have also incorporated feedback provided on the 6 themes shared at the gathering and will be in a position to share those updates shortly as well.
However, this email is mainly to invite you to 5 x online dialogues we plan to run between October and December exploring more deeply a number of the ‘seeds’ that featured as a part of our gathering.
Namely:
Universal Basic Income – 1st October
Ecocide Law – Date TBC
Bioregionalism – Date TBC
Future Generations – 12th November
Governance of the Global Commons – Date TBC
We wish to explore these five economic reform initiatives using questions around transference of power, the global being in support of the local and pathways to scaling up these initiatives. We are seeking answers to these questions to help inform WEAll’s plans for amplification, advocacy and supporting coalitions behind these efforts. Several of you have kindly offered to co-host these 5 dialogues and we hope that if you have an interest in one or more of them, we will see you online at them.
If you have any questions about the above, please don’t hesitate to contact me. We have two dates confirmed and are finalising the final three.
Liepollo’s analysis of the SDGs in particular is enlightening - and could be an important inflection point which just may awaken and cascade a depth of awareness about violent histories, extractive relationships and the governance logic for improving things we have arrived at.
There are some good points in this UN press release, as nucleair disarmement and going beyond GDP, measuring wellbeing. However, there is still a strong capitalist bottom line. Criminal institutions, such as the global banking system, need to be abolished and replaced with radically different structures of economic exchange accounting. We are far, far away from real sustainability and justice. Especially disappointing is that still, economic growth has not been recognised as fundamentally flawed. Overall, the situation remains disastrous, in my view.
This is a really good question.
I’ve tried to respond to one of the emails but was told it didn’t go through.
If we can’t participate, I see no point in getting the emails, which seem to be theoretical anyway, and I would unsubscribe.
Hi @Aamirah-WeAll@Michael , I’ve just been granted ‘member’ status by the forum bot, but I still can’t start a new topic in the Discussion Space. Is this intentional?