Riane Eisler keynotes Life-Serving Economies conference

August 2022

Riane Eisler will keynote the 36X36 Conference: A Femxle Reference System for Economies on August 29th.

The conference is organized by the 36X36, an association "creating a powerful network of meaningful relationships between female visionaries and practitioners, decision-makers and change agents to build the pathways towards life-serving future economies."

The conference takes place in St. Arbogast, Austria, but videos of Eisler's keynote will be available online after the conference.

Learn more about 36X36 and the Life-Serving Economies conference below.

36x36 Conference 2022: Life-Serving Economies Conference

The discovery routes will be exciting and forward-looking

From narratives to data for future economies
From regenerative finance to learning from regeneration of soils
From circular economies to multiple ways of caring economies
From overcoming the dualistic symbolic order to shifts in public values
From redefining money from a female perspective to feminist perspectives in green investments
From stewarding life with entrepreneurs and investors to collaborative feminist practices for economic transformations
From partnerships for transformation to building transformation networks

The conversations about how women can become architects of our future economies will be embedded in a nourishing environment with loving food, walks in nature, fireside chats and reflective dialogue.

You can find the tentative program overview here.

Background for the Conference on Life-Serving Economies

The many symptoms of global sustainability challenges are now widely recognized as symptoms of man-made self-destructive economic behavior. Many voices are calling for a change.

It is time to realign the purpose of economies towards life.

The purpose of the conference is to contribute to developing the fundamentals of a new and life-serving economic architecture based on a female and feminist reference system.

"A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same." ‍‍- Donella H. Meadows

A three-day learning journey to reveal the femxle perspective on a future-proof reference system for economies.
An opportunity to bring the thematic expertise of womxn to the fore
A thorough discourse on feminist perspective on new economic approaches
A decisive step on the pathway to developing a new economic architecture based on a life-serving female reference system

We will bring the puzzle pieces of new economic approaches together and kick-off a collaborative process to co-construct the fundamentals of future economies from a feminist lens. It is time women become architects of our future economies.

The conference will have three streams:

DISCOVERY 1: MINDSETS for LIFE-SERVING ECONOMIES

DISCOVERY 2: SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES

DISCOVERY 3: PATHWAYS INTO THE FUTURE‍