Introduction and Meditation led by Karen Blincoe, Director ICIS + Schumacher College International Representative, Copenhagen. Karen has worked with spirituality and conscious development for many years and facilitated the platform for the Wise Women Circle in Denmark in 1992.

Discussion:”Co-creating the intent for Cop15 as a focus for our meditation”.

Meditation led by Sraddhalu Ranade, Scientist,
Educator & Teacher at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India

Discussion: “Spiritual Perspectives on Climate Change”.

Meditation led by Svend Trier, founder and leader of Quantum Seminars. Teacher, lecturer and writer of several books. Has taught meditation and conscious development since 1971 and is one of the Danish pioneers within this field.

Talk and Discussion, “Meditation - The Art of Presence” - befriending your own nature and nature around you.

Meditation led by Peter Bastian, Danish musician and philosopher. For decades, Peter Bastian has been a defining figure in Denmark, giving talks to more than 25.000 people every year about music, spirituality, and the evolution of culture. Peter began meditating 40 years ago.

Talk and discussion, “Why meditation is important for developing consciousness and culture, and why meditation is not enough”.

Meditation led by Sophie Banks, Trained as an engineer, psychotherapist and family constellator Sophy Banks is now working full time for the Transition movement. She co-founded Transition Training and helped start the Heart and Soul group of Transition Town Totnes, exploring the inner dimensions of personal and social transformation.

Talk and discussion

Meditation led by Valériane Bernard, UN representative in Geneva for the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. She has served as Project Manager, trained and established networks of trainers in USA, Latin America and Europe. Her latest film project aims to enhance the face of “feminine” leadership.


Talk with Valériane Bernard: “Self Empowerment”. An environmentally friendly lifestyle is challenging; it involves breaking old patterns and habits. Meditation and inner strength can help us find new ways of living and also discard old patterns which no longer serve their purpose.

Meditation led by A. Zeb Moghal, practicing sufi, representative for Shaykh Fadhlallah Haeri (founder of the Academy of Self Knowledge). He he is acting as a guide and advisor in the Sufi approach. A. Zeb Moghal is also an independent process consultant.


Talk and discussion: “Meditation, higher conciousness and daily life - a contemporary sufi perspective”

Meditation led by Sister Jayanti, spiritual teacher, author and the European Director of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. She assists in coordinating the University’s activities in over 100 countries and she has coordinated and participated in several UN Conferences and projects in connection with the environment.


Talk with Sister Jayanti: “Consciousness and Climate” - how thoughts affect matter and how a shift in consciousness can transform current deteriorating conditions. Thoughts affect everything. They create the attitudes behind our decisions and lifestyles.

The meditation will be led by Joanna Brown, a Christian activist and artist, who is currently based at Schumacher College, UK. She has been a trustee of the Jubilee Debt Campaign and TIDAL, and was on the New Media team for Make Poverty History. She has also helped to lead Fairtrade initiatives. She will use the work of Walter Wink (Engaging he Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination) to lead the meditation.

Julie Richardson works at Schumacher College in South Devon, England and is a Trustee of the Transition Network ­ a fast growing movement to support community led responses to peak oil and climate change through building community resilience and ecological health. She has trained in acupuncture, Chinese herbs and shiatsu and uses her
knowledge of energetic health and her meditation practice to guide her policy, training and sustainability work.

Talk and discussion

Meditation led by Ross Robertson, senior associate editor of EnlightenNext Magazine and ten-year student of Andrew Cohen’s Evolutionary Enlightenment. A former environmental activist in the southeastern and western United States, Robertson has worked over the last three years to help expand and articulate a newly emerging perspective in twenty-first century environmental thought known as “bright green.”


Talk and discussion: Meditation as training in how to embrace the overwhelming urgency, complexity, and unknowability of the task at hand, and for fostering the ideal conditions within oneself to allow the evolutionary creative impulse to come alive.

Meditation led by Jon Bertelsen, EnlightenNext Copenhagen. Over the past years, Jon Bertelsen has taught a variety of courses in meditation and the evolution of consciousness and culture based on the philosophy of Andrew Cohen’s Evolutionary Enlightement.


Talk and discussion, “Conclusion on the outcome of 11 days of engaging with meditation at COP15. What did we learn about the connection between meditation, consciousness, evolution, and climate change?”