scholarly journals Project Earthrise: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10654
Author(s):  
Susan L. Prescott ◽  
Ganesa Wegienka ◽  
Remco Kort ◽  
David H. Nelson ◽  
Sabine Gabrysch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Systems ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Great Transition ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
Natural Ecology ◽  
Shared Narrative

The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health. This builds on the emergent concept of planetary health, which provides a shared narrative to integrate rich and diverse approaches from all aspects of society towards shared solutions to global challenges. The acute catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to many other interconnected global health, environmental, social, spiritual, and economic problems that have been underappreciated or neglected for decades. This is accelerating opportunities for greater collaborative action, as many groups now focus on the necessity of a “Great Transition”. While ambitious integrative efforts have never been more important, it is imperative to apply these with mutualistic value systems as a compass, as we seek to make wiser choices. Project Earthrise is our contribution to this important process. This underscores the imperative for creative ecological solutions to challenges in all systems, on all scales with advancing global urbanization in the digital age—for personal, environmental, economic and societal health alike. At the same time, our agenda seeks to equally consider our social and spiritual ecology as it does natural ecology. Revisiting the inspiration of “Earthrise”, we welcome diverse perspectives from across all dimensions of the arts and the sciences, to explore novel solutions and new normative values. Building on academic rigor, we seek to place greater value on imagination, kindness and mutualism as we address our greatest challenges, for the health of people, places and planet.

scholarly journals Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 4302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prescott ◽  
Hancock ◽  
Bland ◽  
van den Bosch ◽  
Jansson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Solutions ◽  
Nutritional Ecology ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Local Initiatives

inVIVO Planetary Health (inVIVO) is a progressive scientific movement providing evidence, advocacy, and inspiration to align the interests and vitality of people, place, and planet. Our goal is to transform personal and planetary health through awareness, attitudes, and actions, and a deeper understanding of how all systems are interconnected and interdependent. Here, we present the abstracts and proceedings of our 8th annual conference, held in Detroit, Michigan in May 2019, themed “From Challenges, to Opportunities”. Our far-ranging discussions addressed the complex interdependent ecological challenges of advancing global urbanization, including the biopsychosocial interactions in our living environment on physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing, together with the wider community and societal factors that govern these. We had a strong solutions focus, with diverse strategies spanning from urban-greening and renewal, nature-relatedness, nutritional ecology, planetary diets, and microbiome rewilding, through to initiatives for promoting resilience, positive emotional assets, traditional cultural narratives, creativity, art projects for personal and community health, and exploring ways of positively shifting mindsets and value systems. Our cross-sectoral agenda underscored the importance and global impact of local initiatives everywhere by contributing to new normative values as part of a global interconnected grass-roots movement for planetary health.

scholarly journals Project Earthrise: Inspiring Creativity, Kindness and Imagination in Planetary Health

Challenges ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Alan C. Logan ◽  
Susan H. Berman ◽  
Brian M. Berman ◽  
Susan L. Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Value Systems ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
Normative Value

The concept of planetary health blurs the artificial lines between health at scales of person, place and planet. At the same time, it emphasizes the integration of biological, psychological, social and cultural aspects of health in the modern environment. Our grandest challenges in the Anthropocene ultimately stem from human attitudes to each other and to our environment. However, solutions rarely confront the underlying value systems that created these interconnected problems, or the attitudes that perpetuate them. Too often, the dominant focus is on the “worst of human nature”, and devalues or neglects the importance of empathy, kindness, hope, love, creativity and mutual respect—the deeper values that unite, empower and refocus priorities of individuals and groups. Here, we call to normalize more creative, mutualistic approaches—including the perspectives of traditional and indigenous cultures—to positively influence normative value systems. We revisit the power of inspiration with the profound example of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo which galvanized a fledgling planetary health movement over 50 years ago. Through the inaugural Earth Day that followed, we are reminded that its early organizers were not constrained in how they defined the “environment”. They and their primary speakers were as concerned about value systems as they were about pollution—that we cannot hope to solve our problems without addressing the attitudes that created them in the first place. We explore the ways in which the awe of Earthrise—and the contemporary science of creativity and studies of utopian thinking—might reinvigorate imagination, kindness and mutualism. We revisit the fundamental challenge offered by Pulitzer-Prize-winning microbiologist Rene Dubos and others in the afterglow of the Earthrise photo, and the inaugural Earth Day. This is a question of imagination: What kind of world we want to live in?

The Team as a Creative System. Conditions and Incentives for Effective Creative Collaboration within the Framework of the Project “Ecoartlogia – Stained Glass Ggallery in the Open Air”

Diogenes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Velina Staleva ◽  
◽  
Anastasia Tonkova ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Creative Collaboration ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Project Analysis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Classical Technique ◽  
Creative Team

The article studies the magnitude of teamwork as an effective form of collaboration when realizing a creative project through mural techniques. To exemplify the context of the theoretical part, we review the concept, the process and the result of the project “EcoARTologiA – Stained Glass Gallery in the Open Air”, realized with students and teachers from the Department of Mural Painting in the Fine Arts Faculty at “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo. Project analysis in the context of the topic dwells on the frames of reference towards the project activities which illustrate why a creative team is considered an effective form of collaborative action in the arts. In terms of artistic achievements and successful realization of aesthetically valuable works in the classical technique of stained glass painting the results confirm the success of the joint creative activity anticipated from the project. The article is intended for professionals interested in the interdisciplinary collaboration between the fields related to the contemporary visual dimensions of mural monumental arts and the importance of project activities for monumental arts education.

scholarly journals Planetary Health: A New Reality

Challenges ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Salk
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Disease Rates ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

The grand challenges of our time—climate change, biodiversity losses, and global non-communicable disease rates—underscore that humanity and the planet are in crisis. Planetary health provides a unifying concept wherein efforts toward remediation and survival can be concentrated. Evidence derived from the animal kingdom and from human demography suggest that there is cause for optimism in planetary health. With proper navigation, a transition toward a new epoch—one of symbiotic flourishing—is possible. Responses to the current challenges can usher in a new reality, one in which the core value is the well-being of all. This paper presents the philosophies and perspectives of renown biophilosopher, Jonas Salk, who—after developing the first effective vaccine to prevent polio, one of the great achievements in public health—expanded his vision beyond the prevention of individual diseases to that of addressing the basic problems of humankind. This vision is very much in line with our current understanding of and approach to planetary health. In response to changing conditions, planetary limits, and evolutionary pressure, new values, new communities, and new modes of interacting will likely emerge and be integrated with developments in science, technology, economics, the arts, and international relations, resulting in our survival and enhanced health and well-being.

scholarly journals Healing Anthropocene Syndrome: Planetary Health Requires Remediation of the Toxic Post-Truth Environment

Challenges ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alan C. Logan ◽  
Susan H. Berman ◽  
Brian M. Berman ◽  
Susan L. Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
World Health ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Rapid Dissemination ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Historical Antecedents

The term “Anthropocene Syndrome” describes the wicked interrelated challenges of our time. These include, but are not limited to, unacceptable poverty (of both income and opportunity), grotesque biodiversity losses, climate change, environmental degradation, resource depletion, the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), health inequalities, social injustices, the spread of ultra-processed foods, consumerism and incivility in tandem with a diminished emphasis on the greater potential of humankind, efforts toward unity, or the value of fulfilment and flourishing of all humankind. Planetary health is a concept that recognizes the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems—social, political and otherwise; it blurs the artificial lines between health at scales of person, place and planet. Promoting planetary health requires addressing the underlying pathology of “Anthropocene Syndrome” and the deeper value systems and power dynamics that promote its various signs and symptoms. Here, we focus on misinformation as a toxin that maintains the syndromic status quo—rapid dissemination of falsehoods and dark conspiracies on social media, fake news, alternative facts and medical misinformation described by the World Health Organization as an “infodemic”. In the context of planetary health, we explore the historical antecedents of this “infodemic” and underscore an urgent need to remediate the misinformation mess. It is our contention that education (especially in early life) emphasizing mindfulness and understanding of the mechanisms by which propaganda is spread (and unhealthy products are marketed) is essential. We expand the discourse on positive social contagion and argue that empowerment through education can help lead to an information transformation with the aim of flourishing along every link in the person, place and planet continuum.

Principles and suggestions for liturgical renewal in parish life

1965 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-178
Keyword(s):  
Steering Committee ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Worship Music ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Joint Workshop ◽  
Liturgical Renewal ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Church

The purpose of this document is to assist pastors and congregations in the renewal of life and mission in the Church. It seeks to set down basic principles which should govern the life of a congregation and to provide practical suggestions for enriching the devotional life in worship. The principles are considered to be everywhere applicable, while all suggestions might not be appropriate to every parish. The contents are not to be considered as definitive, but rather reflect the concerns of the committee which prepared them. The Steering Committee1 of the Commission on the Liturgy, composed of pastors in the Chicago area, was not always in agreement on the wording of each statement, but sought as much as possible to reflect the spirit of liturgical renewal in the Church. This document is not to be considered a promotional manual nor a “do-it-yourself” handbook. It seeks to avoid such superficiality. It seeks rather to build upon the foundation of the evangelical biblical faith as reflected in the Lutheran tradition and to give concrete expression to the life and witness of the people of God. The format is arranged so that various expressions of parish life are examined, first in respect to theological principles and second in respect to practical suggestions which are consonant with these principles. At the joint workshop of the Commission on Theology and the Commission on the Liturgy at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Lutheran Society for worship, music and the arts these principles and suggestions were discussed. The concern most frequently expressed was that the Church must be more imaginative in its approach to worship and more sensitive to the problems of contemporary society. It is hoped that the principles and suggestions in this paper may stimulate further study and discussion within the Society on liturgical renewal in parish life. The following served on the Steering

scholarly journals Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health on Transforming Life: Unify Personal, Public, and Planetary Health

Challenges ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Prescott ◽  
Anita Kozyrskyj ◽  
Alan Logan ◽  
Dianne Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
Health And Place ◽  
Oral Communications ◽  
Anthropogenic Ecosystems

inVIVO Planetary Health is a progressive, humanist scientific movement promoting both evidence and advocacy around concepts of planetary health which denote the interdependence between human health and place at all scales. Our seventh annual conference was held in Canmore, Alberta 4-6th April 2018, themed “Transforming Life: Unify Personal, Public, and Planetary Health” included diverse topics and perspectives to emphasise the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems—social, political and otherwise. A key outcome of this meeting was the The Canmore Declaration: Statement of Principles for Planetary Health (published separately) which underscores that improving the health of all systems depends on: mutualistic values; planetary consciousness; advocacy; unity of purpose; recognition of biopsychosocial interdependence; emotional bonds between people and the land; efforts to counter elitism, social dominance and marginalization; meaningful cross-sectoral and cross-cultural narrative; self-awareness; and a personal commitment to shaping new normative attitudes and behaviors. Here we present the collection of abstracts of invited lectures and oral communications presented during the meeting. These formed the foundations and direction for discussions that became the basis of The Canmore Declaration.

scholarly journals Methodological and Methodical Issues in Clinical Studies Concerning Values

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
E.M. Leontyeva
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Study ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
World Views ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Psychological Practice ◽  
Psychological Experiments ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

The article presents the purchase to studying value systems in various sciences; psychology, philosophy. The paper describes methodological difficulties in clinical studies of values. The first difficulty; an unspoken conviction held by clinicians that psychologically ill patients are not in possession of values whatsoever, or that there is a difference expressed in the production of certain value clusters. The second difficulty is a lack of normative values and the influence of postmodern world views on psychological practice. The article considers a need for reflections on internal value systems. Thereby the contemporary clinical study of value systems, should lead to solutions to the aforementioned problems. For a holistic study of value systems it is necessary to create special experimental conditions to a reflection and understanding of One's Own value systems by the subjects of the study. The article proposes a set of adequate and necessary requirements for patho-psychological experiments in the field of value thought processes of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. As an example of such a study the author shows a detailed interview following a modelled value based dialogue and the authors methodology of ‘value classification’. Presented is the interview structure, a set of used values, instructions given to participants, and supplementary questions.

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