Conference Agenda

Learning or not learning from experience? – “What’s Going On?”

John Adlam – Sarita Bose – Chris Scanlon

“…There's too many of you crying

Brother, brother, brother

There's far too many of you dying…

We don't need to escalate

You see, war is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some lovin’ here today”

“What’s Going On?” Marvin Gaye (1971)

Conferences are places where people talk to (and too-often at) one another. They are sometimes spaces for community and understanding and too-often places where unhoused minds encounter inhospitable environments - in ways that reflect and repeat “what’s going on” in wider social and global contexts. They are institutions that exclude even as they seek to include and that falter and fail in this and other ways, as so many institutions do.

Our invitation to you, the membership of this particular conference, is to join us in this open-space to reflect upon and discuss “what’s going on”. Old conversations are growing cold, as the world heats up. Let’s begin some new ones – if and while we still can.

This event is offered as a co-facilitated large group and chairs will be set out in a spiral formation.