Key thesis of the Conference
Glossy reality dictates people the values of young and beautiful personas, glorifying images of superficial and pretended success. Aspirations of a mature person are declared as outdated comparing to young, shiny and carefree clatter. But in reality, these "young" values and goals are outdated for an adult. We have already been there, we remember, respect and appreciate lessons learned from our youth. Everything has its time. And now the time has come to see new opportunities for evolutionary development of an individual and society. It is time for a new meaning of happiness - clear, brave, powerful and spiritually rich state of sophisticated mind and wise soul.
The culture of conscious growing up is not established
The world requires conscious, mature and responsible decisions
The civilization of people is suffering from significant crises occurring one by one. Humankind is shaken from endless series of difficult and unexpected challenges and from the consequences of shortsighted decisions. Many people assume that the reason for the absence of quick and effective responses to these crises is that we are still being influenced by egocentric and greedy values, the values which are forming our decision-making culture and governing our behavior. It is time to create conditions for a new mentality to emerge. It is time for responsibility and care, the truly adult forms of humanity.
There is a necessity for models of a vertical development
We know how to lead our children on their path to become grown ups but we still need to learn more about how continue to grow while being adults. The trajectory of individual life-long learning process should be supported by new scientific discoveries in the field of sustainable development. The knowledge of development stages is very useful, it describes the growing complexity and the beauty of mind. It is time to explore and study ourselves and our age dynamics. It is time to help ourselves and others to develop our increasing opportunities consciously.
The value of emotional maturity has increased a lot
The modern society requires from us to be attentive to each other and to show empathy for others. We should stop looking at ourselves and others as if we all are objects of consumption. Impersonal attitude towards a person leads to degradation on individual and societal levels. We have been learning for too long to compare ourselves with others, experiencing illusive joy of superiority or pain from disappointment. It is time to learn again how to love, appreciate and respect ourselves and others because of our incomparable origins. It is time to underline the beauty of differences and retrieve the power from uniqueness.
There is a necessity for models of a vertical development