“We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred." - Satish Kumar

On Saturday the 19th Club Groeneveld will have the great pleasure to host an online event with Satish Kumar, a former monk and long-term peace and environment activist and founder of Schumacher College, the internationally renowned learning community offering ecology-centred masters, short course and horticulture programmes.

Satish will share his thoughts on ecology, spirituality and social harmony as well as interconnectedness in the context of the Covid 19 crisis and how we may learn to speak a different language, a language of love, and how to come from a speech act, to a physical act. To create new, better and more sustainable ways of living together in an uncertain future.

Join us online or offline (in the Netherlands there will be a small live audience) and be inspired to help create a more meaningful and connected future.

PROGRAMME (all times are CEST)

• 14.00u Opening remarks by Satish Kumar and Q&A with the live audience
• 15.00u Break
• 15.15u Talk by Satish Kumar
• 16:30u A conversation with Satish Kumar (questions from the audience)
• 17.00u Nature walk
• 17:40u Closing remarks and closing ceremony by Satish Kumar
• 18:00u End

PRICING & TICKETS

• Ticket live audience: EUR 35,-
• Ticket livestream: EUR 10,-
• Prices are excl. VAT

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ABOUT SATISH KUMAR

A former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the global agenda for change for over 50 years. He was just nine when he left his family home to join the wandering Jains, and 18 when he decided he could achieve more back in the world, campaigning for land reform in India and working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality.

Inspired in his early 20s by the example of the British peace activist Bertrand Russell, Satish embarked on an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage. Carrying no money and depending on the kindness and hospitality of strangers, he and a colleague walked from India to America, via Moscow, London and Paris, to deliver a humble packet of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the world's then four nuclear powers.

In 1973 Satish settled in the UK becoming the editor of Resurgence magazine, a position he held until 2016, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. During this time, he has been the guiding spirit behind a number of now internationally respected ecological and educational ventures. He cofounded Schumacher College in South Devon, where he is a Visiting Fellow. In his 50th year, Satish undertook another pilgrimage - again carrying no money. This time, he walked 2,000 miles to the holy places of Britain, a venture he describes as a celebration of his love of life and nature. In 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth. In July 2001, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of Lancaster, and in the November of that same year, he was presented with the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for promoting Gandhian values outside India. In 2009 Satish was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) by the University of Exeter. In 2013 he was made Doctor of the University by the University of Suffolk. In 2014 Satish was appointed an Oxfam UK Ambassador. Satish is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Gross National Happiness Centre of Bhutan. In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Wales.

His autobiography, No Destination, first published by Green Books in 1978, has sold over 50,000 copies. He is also the author of You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence, The Buddha and the Terrorist, Earth Pilgrim, Soil, Soul, Society and Elegant Simplicity. In 2005, Satish was Sue Lawley's guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. In 2008, as part of BBC2's Natural World series, he presented a 50-minute documentary from Dartmoor, which was watched by over 3.6 million people. He appears regularly in the printed media and a range of radio programmes including Thought for the Day and Midweek. In recognition of his commitment to animal welfare and compassionate living, he was elected vice-president of the RSPCA. He continues to teach and run workshops on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity and is a much sought-after speaker both in the UK and abroad.