From: Jem Bendel) • To: Jeffrey <[email protected]> Subject: Lake District Festival: Jem's Quarterly #1 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:53:02 +0000 Greetings Jeffrey 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 gum 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 16th. 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 al