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Francis View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/5aa385bffd00/cot-x-music-seminar-5-can-we-hear-self-organization-4939838?e=d69b99eefa> <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=6f1f3f4369&e=d69b99eefa> Upcoming Longevity+ seminar We are cordially inviting you to the online seminar Postponing aging by Dr. Aubrey de Grey, honorary speaker. Longevity+ seminar series are organized by our new CLEA Longevity+ Research Group: a transdisciplinary approach to wellbeing. The group aims to integrate and elaborate scientific approaches towards a long and happy life. Tuesday 6 July 2021 17:00 - 18:0 CET Postponing aging: How much can we do now and how much should we aim for? by Dr. Aubrey de Grey Zoom Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96314326372?pwd=Q29TeHN2MHpaOFlSMEJKVWhTQ0hKZz09 <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=66913d3caa&e=d69b99eefa> Meeting ID: 963 1432 6372 Passcode: EX10aS Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1Odnn8AIJ <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=a0ba9bfabb&e=d69b99eefa> Website: https://clea.research.vub.be/en/longevity-5-postponing-aging-by-dr-aubrey-de-grey <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=46599b6088&e=d69b99eefa> Longevity is increasing worldwide, but more slowly than in decades past: indeed it has largely flatlined in the West. Can we resume the earlier pace of progress? I will argue that there is much that people can do to postpone the health problems that await them late in life, including optimisations of diet, lifestyle and stress management - but that the magnitude of the benefit that most people can realistically achieve by such means is quite modest and must not be overstated. By contrast, the longevity research community is making major and accelerating strides towards the development of medical treatments that will confer much larger benefits - and those who are already in middle age or older when such medicines arrive will benefit the most. I will summarise the nature of these foreseeable medical advances and why more and more experts are saying they are within reach. About the speaker: Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating aging. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA in computer science and Ph.D. in biology from the University of Cambridge. His research interests encompass the characterisation of all the types of self-inflicted cellular and molecular damage that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations. He is a highly sought-after speaker who gives 40-50 invited talks per year at scientific conferences, universities, companies in areas ranging from pharma to life insurance, and to the public. <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=7bfac22549&e=d69b99eefa> To find out more about CLEA seminar series, please visit our website: https://clea.research.vub.be/en/seminars <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=d568346c15&e=d69b99eefa> Reminder: Online seminar Tomorrow 2 July 2021 17:00 - 19:00 CET MIND THE GAP: The Five Steps of a Systemic Leader by Prof. Michel de Kemmeter (VUB Brussels School of Governance) Zoom Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98682194975?pwd=M1kySGt5bU42bGJreTRmM25hRkxmQT09 <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=f4ba3032ad&e=d69b99eefa> Meeting ID: 986 8219 4975 Passcode: 7pG8g1 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/UPjJWrhc <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=d04088e1b4&e=d69b99eefa> Website: https://clea.research.vub.be/en/clea-seminar-mind-the-gap-the-five-steps-of-a-systemic-leader-by-prof-michel-de-kemmeter <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=26704e5677&e=d69b99eefa> How « systemic economy » principles could become the keys for regenerative transition Today’s debt-based « system » and governance organizing society and economy, has succeeded great things, but also seriously damaging ecology, climate, people, and has undermined itself and proven based on unsustainable paradigms. A new system is « expected », necessary and urgent. This is the goal of our work. No surprise, it is based on systems thinking and working. A new philosophy, a new model, a strong methodology based on 10 new tools for value assessment, building purpose, create alliances, etc. and experience of a dozen programs on live projects have reached us a lot on how to build these next generation businesses and leadership models. This exposé will be fully interactive. <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=fa08669cf7&e=d69b99eefa> News <https://vub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=157facbf4149263b2f5e13a69&id=878a68fe8a&e=d69b99eefa> Post-graduate School of Thinking Applications for 2021/22 academic year are now open Many of the problems we face are the unfortunate outcome of the malpractice of thinking. The practice of thinking is too impactful, its consequences too potent, for us to afford not to pay attention to how it can be continuously advanced and refined. For exactly this purpose the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) has created a unique academic project — the School of Thinking! The generalist curriculum of the Postgraduate School of Thinking is addressed to working professionals whose interests are focused on complex, ‘wicked’, multidisciplinary, convoluted, and unprecedented phenomena — and particularly to those, for whom the outcome of their endeavors critically depends on the quality of thinking. The primary aim of the programme is for the participants to develop the capacity to bring their thinking performance beyond the threshold of their already familiar and expected individual ’ordinary’: again and again! 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