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Education Rather than filling brains with knowledge, the purpose of our education system should be to support the awakening and actualization of children’s true being. It should help them to grow as authentic human beings—in all their dimensions: physical, emotional, aesthetic, moral, intellectual, and spiritual. While it is traditionally feared that the focus on individual characters […]

Governance Democracy needs to evolve beyond its current form of “adversary democracy”, in which political parties compete for power, spurring polarization and paralysis. This implies a deepening of democracy through greater citizens participation – through a more direct, deliberative and digital democracy, integrated to representative democracy – a better balance between competence and popular control, […]

Economy Our economic systems need to be redesigned to ensure the satisfaction of everyone’s basic material needs and support the expression of our full potential – including spiritual, artistic, or cultural content and experiences, as well as care works – within ecological boundaries. All the current economic institutions need to evolve to serve this vision, […]

Justice The dominant paradigm of retributive justice builds upon and strengthens our instinct for retaliation, while the practice of restorative justice allows all those involved to cultivate human values and qualities such as understanding, deep listening, compassion, healing, inclusivity, courage and responsibility Restorative justice is based on a non-adversarial process involving all stakeholders through dialogue, […]

Nature The required paradigm shift in the way we consider and relate to our planet – as a sacred living entity, of which we are part – is best embodied at the policy level by recognizing the rights of nature, which is already occurring in many countries. Recognizing the rights of nature questions our unlimited […]