ANNOUNCEMENT: (Apologies for any Cross Posting) Extended Internet Sessions on Sustaining Human Existence and Human Conceptual and Mental Development (to begin Jan. 23, 1998). The International Association for the Advancement of Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IAAHCMD), within the context of a Global Dialogue on Human Conceptual and Mental Development, is sponsoring extended Internet Sessions on Sustaining Human Existence and Human Conceptual and Mental Development by the Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IHCMD). The Sessions are a follow-up to an early Internet Workshop on Human Conceptual and Mental Development, held late last year. The Sessions consist of a series of four-weeks periods of focused and directed discussion, guided by a set of discussion papers. The central focus of the Sessions are human, social, economic, and environmental problems and challenges we face individually and as a species globally today, understanding their nature and causes and long-term answers and solutions. The Sessions will take participants through a discussion of the fundamental and common nature, conditions, demands, and challenges, especially of human mental existence; where as a species we have come from, where we are, and where we are heading in human conceptual and mental development, the understanding and way of managing human existence and the mental abilities and skills on which we rely, their limits and shortcomings and their human, social, and environmental consequences; and where we must go, and how to get there, the direction we need to take in conceptual and mental development individually and as a species to sustain human existence, to comprehend and manage existence within the parameters and limits set by nature, and not to contribute further to the premature demise, in the long term, of the human species at it own hands. The Sessions will take participant through a discussion of the issues beyond the fragmentation and separation of them by narrow, competing, and conflicting cultural, socio-economic, professional, and special-interest views and positions, and beyond conventional myths, beliefs, speculations, and conceptual abstractions. Sessions Format: Eight interrelated discussion papers will be introduced, one at a time at the beginning of each session. Each paper, the issues and perspectives raised, will be discussed over a four-weeks period, one section at a time. The Sessions provide an opportunity to participate in, or to just follow the discussions. They also provide an opportunity to develop clarity and coherence of mind and detailed and in-depth understanding of the issues, and to develop the mental abilities and skills required to change the direction of human development and to sustain human existence. The Sessions will be of interest to those concerned with the path and direction of human development. They should be of interest to those concerned with and actively dealing with human, social, economic, and environmental problems, in education (both educators and students), academia and science, international development, public policy, and in NGO sector and social movements. The Sessions will be of interest to those concerned with issues of peace, economic and social justice and equality, human rights, sustainable development, education reform, and human, cultural, social, economic, scientific, and technological development and change. You can join the Sessions via: (a) the web: <http://segate.sunet.se/archives/et-w2.html> or (b) e-mail: send an e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and write the message: SUB ET-W2 yourfirstname yourlastname, organization (For Example: SUB ET-W2 Jane Doe, XYZ) More information (Sessions Guidelines, Discussion Papers, Introductory Summary, IAAHCMD, IHCMD, and HCMD Project) can be found at: <http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab097/sessions.htm> Contact: Sessions Organizer and List Moderator: Dr. Axel Dorscht Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development (IHCMD), Ottawa, Canada Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List Owner: Mr. Eng-Leong "Jacky" Foo, M.Sc. UNESCO Microbial Resources Center, Stockholm Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
