BEING
READY FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Four Monday Evenings:
May 21 & 28, June 4 & 11, 2012
Facilitated
by John Adams
Center for
Creativity and Community
23 West St.
Charles St.
(HWY 49 – on
west side just north of the blinker light)
San Andreas
6:00 pm – 9:00
pm
(Dessert potluck!)
There is no
way to be certain how the future will unfold, but there is growing concern in
many quarters that the next 20 years won’t be anything like the last 20 years! This
seminar is presented in a four part series and extends the work of Jared
Diamond (Collapse), Richard Heinberg
(The End of Growth), Chris Martenson
(The Crash Course), Cam Mather (The Upside of Down) and others, in
exploring the inner workings of our society’s prevailing ways of thinking and
behaving.
These four
evenings will help you understand the nature and interrelationships of some extremely
serious risks to our familiar way of life and our future prosperity. It weaves
together some of the most likely reasons we may experience significant challenges
to “life as usual” – exploring the interactions of how the economy; the
availability of cheap, abundant energy; and essential resource availability
affect our everyday lives. Our goal will be to interconnect the various
challenges and make them understandable. Each of the first two sessions of the
course, which will be held on consecutive Monday evenings, will open with
dialogue on some provocative questions, then involve a video presentation, and
wind up with Q & A and further dialogue on items of interest.
The third and
fourth sessions are devoted to exploring our readiness to change and the possibilities
for preparation, both as families and as a community, for an uncertain future. People
will leave with a clearer sense of their own needed next steps for being building
family and community resilience.
Come and
extend your network. One of the enduring outcomes of past offerings is the
opportunity to join in a growing community of local folks who are helping each
other to build resilience and are sharing ideas and resources on an on-going
basis.
BIG
GOALS
1.
Understanding the present
challenges to “life as we know it.” Getting the interconnections!
2.
Reaching our own (self / family)
conclusions and deciding what to do.
3.
Building a community of
self-reliance and resource sharing
OBJECTIVES
By the end of
this series, you will be able to:
- Understand why our economic system is in trouble.
- Know the relationship of fossil fuels to your future prosperity.
- Link environmental and resource depletion issues to both energy and the economy.
- Meet like-minded folks and join a growing community of concerned foothill citizens.
- Have the opportunity to create a personal action plan for “being ready for an uncertain future”
MAIN LEARNING POINTS
- Dealing with the potential disruptions that could occur in the next twenty years.
- The role cheap, abundant energy plays in your prosperity and your quality of life.
- Why depleted resources add up to big challenges
- The creation of money and how the Federal Reserve System functions.
- Why it is essential to understand compound interest (exponential growth) and how it relates to your life.
- Developing an action plan for yourself, your family, and your network of “fellow travelers.”
To register,
contact John Adams at 728-9432 or jadams2212@comcast.net or by
clicking on Contact at: http://home.comcast.net/~jadams2212/.
Cost: Suggested
price is $5 per session to cover copying expenses and make a donation to the
Center. No one is turned away if payment is a challenge.
Location:
Center
for Creativity and Community
23
West St. Charles St. (HWY 49)
San
Andreas
John Adams is formerly
Director of Educational Programs for the Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability.
He has also served FoCuS as a Board member and is Emeritus Professor at
Saybrook University. Prior to his academic involvement, John had a private
practice in speaking and seminar leadership for over 20 years focusing on how
our thinking influences our behaviors and experiences – especially in the areas
of sustainability, change adjustment and stress management.