We are dedicated to our mission of fostering of a new generation of world leaders in this critical period of worldwide political, moral and environmental instability.
Cortona Week is an interdisciplinary residence where graduate students and young managers from all over the world and from all disciplines are “mixed” (in addition to several critical scientists) , with artists, musicians, spiritual leaders, poets, professionals in medicine and psychology, politicians.
The aim, with the help of world known professionals and even visionaries, is to open up the horizon of the participants to the values of ecology, ethics, tolerance, internal introspection- and to the actual new frontiers of science, literature, art, economy – the full display of human experience – where life becomes a system view of interacting parts – and not an addition of single isolated domains.
We work together in round table discussions, lectures and with experiential workshops, where the participants can paint, do sculpture or music, meditation, theatre… choosing by themselves which aspects of life are more important for their own life equilibrium.
The term “awareness” should not be taken to imply a mere “being aware of…” state of mind; rather, it denotes a far more profound and intimate form of knowledge that concerns us and others on a fundamental level. A variety of scientific methodologies have been employed over time to investigate this construct, resulting in the […]
The objective of my presentation is to share mypersonal, professional, philosophical, spiritual and scientific aspects of my encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama over a period of forty years and highlight its transformative power.
Still today we all know that experiences of Conscious Awareness are not at all the same as hearing a talk on the analysis of Consciousness ( just as the experience of sex is not all the same thing as a talk about sex); the neuro-anatomical functioning of the brain or the emergent property of a complex information […]
