Documentation of Leipzig Course "Mental infrastructures" online

Dear GROWLers,

we now finished the Documentation of the Leipzig Course "Mental infrastructures and Degrowth transformation", which took place in Leipzig, 2nd-11th of September, including the IV. International Degrowth Conference. You can find it here:

http://co-munity.net/mental-infrastructures/materials-0

What was the course about?

Mental infrastructures of growth are a persons' unconsciously internalized psychological, social and cultural settings. At the moment these models are strongly shaped by a growth-oriented pattern which affects also our actions and daily habits and helps keeping us from imagining – and building – a sustainable society. But if social and ecological transformation is very closely linked to a transformation of our mental infrastructures – how do we deal with these? Can we „change“ mental infrastructures? Do we want to change them? And how?

In the course we addressed the topic from different perspectives. We theoretically discussed infrastructures of growth and where they come from. Moreover, we tried to reflect our personal mental models and experimented with their convertibility by offering a variety of experience-based workshops.

In the documentation you find content and methodology of the course, please feel free to use it for your own work and to further distribute the ideas...

It was a wonderful experience, also for us as trainers. Hope to see you all again,

Susanne for the Leipzig organizing team