WorldShift Network founded
On June 12, 2007, the day of Prof. Ervin Laszlo's 75th birthday, the Club of Budapest WorldShift Network was established as an international foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to connect the plenty of organizations and individuals throughout the world already working for a value based new civilization in order to strengthen their concerted political effectiveness in civil society. The founders are Prof. Ervin Laszlo (president), Johannes Heimrath and Wolfgang Riehn (chairmen). The foundation of the Club of Budapest WorldShift Network marks the first step in the ongoing process of restructuring the worldwide organization of the Club as an answer to the demanding needs of the time.
The Club of Budapest WorldShift Network will focus on six topics:
- The Governance of Nations (shifting metaphors from ruling to participation)
- Education for Wisdom (shifting metaphors from knowledge to wisdom)
- Public Health Policy (shifting metaphors from desease control to salutogenesis)
- The Ethics of Planetary Freedom (shifting metaphors from separatism to community)
- Reverence for Nature (shifting metaphors from domination to unity)
- Approaching a modern Subsistence Economy (shifting mtephors from exploitation to sustainability)
These six topics are understood as expressions of the already ongoing change of global consciousness.
Wolfgang Riehn and Johannes Heimrath were appointed as directors of the Club of Budapest WorldShift Network.