Day 1 | 25 September 2024
- 13:00
- Registration
Coffee, Drinks & Snacks - RECONNECTING WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE – Ancient Roots
- 14:00
- Introduction
Alexandra Mitsotaki President & co-founder WHF
Michail Marmarinos Theater director & biologist, artistic director of Eleusis 2023
On Eleusis myth and its relevance today
Phil Cousineau Author-filmmaker-mythologist | Lead Speaker - Part A
15:00 - Ancestral Concepts of Flourishing moderated by Alexandra Mitsotaki
Spyridon Rangos Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy in the University of Patras
Anastasia Giannakidou (tbc) Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago interviewed by Achilleas Stamatiadis, Graduate Researcher in the Humanities
Stefanos Gandolfo Director, Columbia Global Center Athens – Lecturer of Chinese history, culture and international relations University of Oxford & the University of Piraeus (Virtual Participation)
Nicolas Kolonias Professor of Art and Philosophy at Chiang Mai University - 16:30
- Coffee break
- 17:00
- Aruna Ladva Meditation Teacher, Author, Facilitator of Retreats | Awaken your Inner Wisdom for Outer Action | Lead Speaker
Open Dialogue - Part B
17:30 - arTogether – Τhe Arts and Crafts as a Vehicle for Community Flourishing moderated by Michail Marmarinos
Maria Papadimitriou Contemporary visual artist, professor of Visual Arts at University of Thessaly – Department of Architecture
Ilias Monacholias Administrator of Elefsina Arts & Culture NPCP
Claudia Paetzold Independent Curator, Founder of Consult Curate Create & Curating Evolution | Eleusis Re-Forestation project
Danae Christoudi student in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of Peloponnese, member of the Cultterra Association created in 2019 with the initiative, support, training, and networking of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture. - 18:30
- WORKSHOP
arTogether communal painting
(will remain open for the 3 days of the Symposion)
- 19:00
- Light dinner
- 19:45
- Walking tour to Old Oil Mill Factory by Angeliki Lampiri
- 21:00
- Ba Wang Bian 霸王鞭– Ancestral Dialogues
performance at the Old Oil Mill Factory
by acclaimed dancer/choreographer Maya Jilan Dong
Pre-performance talk by Farooq Chaudhry OBE, Strategic & Artistic Consultant, co-founder of Akram Khan Dance Company
Day 2 | 26 September 2024
- 9:00 – 10:30
- Guided tour at Eleusis ancient site by Kalliopi Papangeli Honorary Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Museums of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica and Phil Cousineau
- Part A
- INNER DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: on the road to a flourishing planet for 2030 moderated by Gerasimos Kouvaras
- 11:30
- Gerasimos Kouvaras Executive Director WHF / Inner Development Goals Hellenic Network
Brendan Case Associate director for Research, Harvard University | Human Flourishing programme
Jochen Sandig Director Ludwigsburg Festival, co-founder World Human Forum | The Arts and the SDGs -3 case studies - Open dialogue
- 12:45
- Light lunch
- 13:45
- Spaces of Individual and Collective Spirituality: Exploring the Fields of Business and Museums
Eleftheria Egel Επιχειρείν with Purpose for Impact
Marlen Mouliou Assistant Professor of Museology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Fulbright Fellow - WORKSHOP
Flourishing our Senses by Sophia Sfakianopoulou - 15:00
- Coffee break
- Part B
- BRAIN AND FLOURISHING
- 15:30
- Flourishing through or despite Technology? moderated by Katerina Kafentzi
Garry Bolles Author -The Next Rules of Work, chair for the Future of Work – Singularity University | Lead Speaker
European Brain Foundation representative
Konstantinos Karachalios Strategy Advisor to the Executive Director of IEEE; former managing director of the IEEE Standards Association
John Havens Founding Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems – Heartificial Intelligence - 17:00
- Coffee break
- 17:30
- Healing through Art moderated by Myrto Vounatsou
Ivy Ross Vice President of Hardware Design at Google & Susan Magsamen founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, co-authors of the book “Your Brain on Art” (virtual participation)
Nathalie Babouraj DocLaLuna, MD and integrative health researcher and artist
Tracey Shors Professor of Neuroscience & Psychology; author “Everyday Trauma” brain fitness program — “MAP Train My Brain” - Open dialogue
- WORKSHOPS
18:30 “MAP Training” Keeping our brain fit, by Tracey Shors
19:15 “Design your Dharma Flow and purpose of life” When our sensory nervous system guides us on our path of alignment, by Nathalie Babouraj
Day 3 | 27 September 2024
- 8:00-10:00
- Narrative Archaeology at the archaeological site of Elefsina
An interdisciplinary performance in search of the secret of Narrative
Curated and Directed by Gemma Hansson Carbone - Part A
- PALLIATIVE CARE: A FLOURISHING TRANSITION – Will Psychedelics be allowed to Help? moderated by Gina Belafonte
- 11:00
- Kalliopi Papangeli Honorary Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Museums of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica | Opening Remarks: Lessons from Eleusis
Anthony P. Bossis Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa | Lead Speaker
Aliki Tserkezoglou Director, Galilee Palliative Care Centre
Theodoros Tsoutsouras Pneumonologist, Red Cross Hospital, Athens · Intensive Care Unit - 12:30
- Light Lunch
- 13:30
- Mark Geyer Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences Emeritus at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Christina Dalla Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, President Mediterranean Neuroscience Society. Board of Directors Eur. Brain Foundation
Nikos Stefanis Prof. of Psychiatry, Chairman First Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Eginition Hospital
Yiannis Takousis co-founder of the Greek Psychedelic Society
Anthony P. Bossis Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa | Lead Speaker
Chiara Baldini Researcher of Ecstatic Religious Experience, Psychedelics, and Altered States of ConsciousnessClosing Remarks | Open conversation, contribution by participants - 15:30
- Coffee Break
- Part B
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CONNECTING WITH STORIES OF HOPE – Modern Blossoms moderated by Alexandra Mitsotaki
- 16:00
- Daphne Economou Founder & Honorary Chairperson of Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door
Hrishikesh Pawar Kathak, Contemporary dancer, choreographer | “Some dance to Remember, some dance to forget!”
Laura Ulloa Political Scientist
Freddy Mutanguha CEO of the Aegis Trust, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial | On Forgiveness
Anezina Solomonidou Planetologist-Astrophysicist, Design for Change | community flourishing leading to inner and nature flourishing - 17:30
- Open dialogue & recapitulation
- 18:00
- Light Dinner
Workshop: In C participatory workshop by Hrishikesh Pawar - 19:30
- Human Requiem in Eleusis film projection at the Elefsina Film Club open-air cinema
Pre-screening talk by the director, Jochen Sandig - *Registration for Day 2 and Day 3 starts one hour before the beginning of the respective sessions.