Greetings Michel

Even when corresponding with someone it's rare we both know all the relevant things eachother is doing. So I've decided to start a quarterly round up. As we’ve written to each other in the last two years, I'm including you in this initiative. If you dont want to get a round up from me every 3 months, I'm sorry, please click click unsubscribe and choose "not interested".

Still here? Good, as my main reason for writing is to invite you to a festival I’m organising this summer on the shores of England’s largest lake. It’s on the themes of leadership, sustainability and wellbeing and will bring together famous cultural leaders, leadership trainers and academics from over 30 countries. Speakers include Indian actor Nandita Das, author Charles Eisenstein, and PR guru Lynne Franks. For 3 days from July 16th at Brathay Hall, there’ll be music, kayaking, nature walks, yoga, tai chi, dance lessons, and storytelling workshops. Oh, and some academic papers! Deadline for submitting abstracts is March 16^th. As it is during the summer holidays, we are providing a free children's programme of professionally run outdoor activities - and babysitting. The research festival is preceded by a 6 day course on sustainable leadership that I’m teaching. The festival and course are organised by the Institute I founded in 2012.

At the bottom of this update I list more talks and workshops I’m doing in the coming months in Geneva, Copenhagen, Cape Town, London, Lancaster, and Ambleside (yay!). But first, I want to share some of my recent creations. After "coming out" as a monetary activist in 2011, with a TEDx that nears 100,000 views, I wanted to connect this agenda to my prior two decades of work on sustainable business. The result is the free introduction to my latest book ‘Healing Capitalism’.

Last year I also had the opportunity in my Inaugural Professorial lecture to explain my view of both education and sustainability as exercises in liberation, not control. This is the philosophy behind the courses we launched last year, and the thinking is further explained in a new Occasional Paper (pdf) I wrote with Richard Little from the leadership development consultants Impact International.

The Institute has a big year ahead of it. We are launching a portfolio of short courses with Impact International, new MBAs on sustainability themes with the Robert Kennedy College, and a specialist leadership development Masters, which I’ll be designing and teaching. You can even pay with Bitcoin for this last course: something that put me on the BBC breakfast sofa last year.

If any of these topics interest you, then do engage in the Sustainable Leaders linked in group, or see my latest musings at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com" claiming to be www.jembendell.com  

Over the next month I’m teaching my first ever Mass Open Online Course (MOOC). It’s on the topic of Money and Society. If you are interested, read about it here, and if interested join us with the next 48 hours here (otherwise the next offering is in August). I’ll also be doing some research with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative at the UN and finishing a book on NGO Leadership and Accountability. But what I’m really looking forward to is taking up DJ-ing again at the Leading Wellbeing festival. See you there!