Uitnodiging voor week in Frankrijk: Europe beyond economics

[Dries Boele]

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Beste,

Deze mail is bedoeld voor mensen die geïnteresseerd zijn in onze toekomst
als Europeanen.
Hieronder vindt u een uitnodiging voor een week discussie en uitwisseling
rond het thema `Civil Europe'.

Met vriendelijke groet,
Dries Boele

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"Europe beyond economics. Civil Europe as a work in progress and new
community."

Join a 6 day study group in the French Alps to discuss ideas and share
information. To think through your future as a European in a forum, which
draws on philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, literature and the arts.
We want to focus on the possibility of a `European dream', the need of a
European identity and the opportunities and hurdles for a further
development of a real European union that is more than a market. Are they
feasible options? What does `Europe' mean to us? Europe is still a work in
progress, a challenge for those who want to be co-creators of our common
future.

This is an opportunity to invest time, brainpower and effort in a
stimulating environment, where people can explore and share their own
domains of interest, and benefit from a synergy of ideas and initiatives.
And to meet Europeans from all parts of the continent!

With the aim of creating a foundation for ongoing initiatives in a widening
European network (the internet community, follow up seminars, papers) the
group will discuss themes around and related to the following:

. How do Europe and current personal identity relate?
. What legitimacy for Europe?
. Why Europe? What do we want from it?
. Desirability and feasibility of a public domain on a European scale
. A European civil society
. The appeal of Europe: Reflecting the extraordinary in Europe
. What do we have in common as Europeans?
. Challenge of Civil Europe as an inspiration and model


Participation:

Interested parties, please send your project(s) for the week in France and a
short personal curriculum to
. Dries Boele: driesboele at wxs.nl, Spaarndammerplantsoen 108, 1013 XT
Amsterdam
AND
. Imke Musterd: imke.musterd at ctac-align.com, Van Ostadestraat 288, 1073 TW
Amsterdam
or contact us for more information.
** To ensure receipt in the coming holiday period, please send a copy to
BOTH addresses.

Participation and active contribution to the group is essential and will
form the basis for a continuous commitment to developing ideas outside the
initial seminar.

Program:  We will `work' (study, workshops, presentations, etc) about 5
hours a day. The rest of the day is optional (opportunity for hiking,
mountain activities, Grenoble etc).
Organization:  Project team `Civil Europe': Dries Boele & Imke Musterd

Dates:    Sat. July 28th - Fri. August 3rd
Location:  Gite Le Chateau, Revel, France (near Grenoble, South-East France)
Information about the village, the gite etc:
http://info@revel-belledonne.com.

Seminar costs:  150 Euro (excl. accommodation)
Accommodation:  90FF (less than 14 Euro) p. person p. night (double room),
75FF (less than 11,5 Euro) in a quadruple room. Camping possibilities.

Language:  Primary language is English although some work may be conducted
in French.

Facilities:  Use of collective kitchen; sauna; collective hall and outdoors
study possibilities. Limited access to mail/internet.
Recreation:  Good hiking possibilities; mountain activities; bbq; 15 minute
drive to the city of Grenoble.

Additional information on access and other logistics will be provided upon
subscription.

The initiative is an independent project, not allied to any political party
or organization in particular. The only political statement is our
commitment to Europe as our common future.

Recently we have created an email-list, Civil-Europe, to exchange
information and to discuss Europe related items. In case you want to join
this email-list, visit the following web-site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Civil-Europe Or send an email to:
driesboele at wxs.nl



Organizers:

Imke Musterd lives and works in Amsterdam as a senior IT and organisational
consultant.
She graduated in Political Philosophy at Leyden University in 1994. While
completing her additional degree in Business Administration in France she
also contributed to conferences on Europe’s and society’s future: State and
Nation in Europe (with students and thinkers from different European
countries, Portugal), The Netherlands in 2025 (Netherlands). Before
returning to Amsterdam, she lived and worked in the UK and Belgium for an
international consultancy agency.

Imke is a member of the Association for a Democratic Europe, a Dutch
organisation geared towards promotion of a public debate on the theme of
Europe; and actively involved in developing a meaningful perspective on
today’s world, society, and politics as an arena for the expression of civic
ambitions.

Keywords: change management, organisational alignment, project organisation.

Mailto: imke.musterd at ctac-align.com
Address: Van Ostadestraat 288, 1073 TW Amsterdam, +31.20.470.31.50



Dries Boele studied philosophy in Paris and Amsterdam. He is one of the
pioneers in the field of practical philosophy. He has worked since 1990 as a
philosop-hical counselor and trainer, and gives workshops, especi-ally
Socratic dialogues and Dilemma training, for private indivi-duals and in
enter-prises and organi-za-tions, in and outside Holland (incl. US, France,
Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia & Germany). He also trains facilita-tors of
Socratic dialogue.
Dries is doing research on philosophy with regard to the `art of living' and
politics. He gives lectures,  delivers courses and seminars and conducts
philosophical holidays (in France and Egypt). Since 1994 he has organized a
philosophical café for public discussion in Hotel de Filosoof in Amsterdam.
He is published in Dutch, German and English on philosophical practice and
on the philosophy of the art of living.

Dries has participated in discussions on politics for some years. One of the
projects he took part in: Forum Amsterdam (1995), De stad, dat zijn de
burgers! (The city, that is: the citizens!) Renewal and change: Amsterdam in
2010.
Special interests (keywords): Europe & civilization; the arts, cultural
differences & lifestyle; multicultural society, religion & identity; vision,
philosophy & leadership.

Mailto: driesboele at wxs.nl
Address: Spaarndammerplantsoen 108, 1013 XT Amsterdam  Tel: +31-20-6867330


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