Be The Change
May 11-13, London

The 2006 Be The Change event takes place May 11-13, at Friends House in London.
Some 500 people from 20 countries gather to discuss the latest thinking ? this year
around finance, conflict, climate change and sustainable education.

DAY 1 ? May 11: FINANCE AND IT?S IMPACT ON THE PLANET

Bernard Lietaer, the man who designed Europe?s single currency, illustrates
how the current systems no longer serve us, and outlines an ?intentional
economics?: one that could meet our need for a sustainable planet. A new
concept from one of the world?s wisest financial figures.

John Duggan, provides an impressive example of ?corporate social
responsibility? - a British business leader who has decided that his company
(a subsidiary of Wal*Mart), and not the customer, must and will start
bearing the full environmental cost of everything it builds.

Stan Thekaekara comes to us from India where over the past 20 years he has
quite literally transformed the lives of thousands of the world?s very
poorest people ? the adivasi, or indigenous people. Stan threw out the
economic rulebook. The adivasi re-possessed their land, built community
schools and hospitals, became tea planters, and now trade their tea directly
? even to the UK, cutting out the middlemen of so-called ?fair trade?

Other key participants on Day One are Lindsay Levin (from Leadership Quest)
and co-chairs Stewart Wallis (nef) and John Whitmore. In the evening, there
will be 3 evening workshops ? on Community Trade (Stan Thekaekara), the
Mayan Calendar (Carl Johan Calleman) and on Learning Vital Skills (Ted
Klontz).

DAY 2  - May 12:  CONFLICT AND HEALING

Three people are coming to us direct from a transformative, 4-week trip
across the Sahara, seeking to understand what lies behind the endless
conflict in the Middle East. Neda Sarmast lost her best friend in the
Iran/Iraq war, Galit Oren?s mother was killed by a suicide bomb ? and Heskel
Nathaniel is the driving force behind ?Breaking the Ice? ? the programme
which brings Arabs and Jews together on epic journeys such as this.

Introducing this day is Scilla Elworthy, founder of the Oxford Research
Group and of Peace Direct, and 3 times Nobel Prize nominee. She will be
taking the entire audience through a process of ?breaking the cycle of
violence?.

Closing the day will be an Indian sage who is, as yet, little known in the
UK- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.  A remarkable man ? as much for his love of
motorbikes, mountain climbing and sports, as for his constant work in
prisons and his countless initiatives around environment, education and
holistic and healthy living.

Also taking part in Day 2 are Lynne Franks, Zulfi