There is something about returning to the hive. In our day-to-day lives, we are busy bees in our different locations, moving around, collecting food for thought to nourish our work at Conducive Space for Peace (CSP). But coming together and sharing our ideas is what moves us forward and allows us to reimagine our work, restrategise our approaches, and recommit to our values. You may have stumbled upon our conceptual thinking around the beehive (if not, check it out here) – just like we apply it to think about systems change, we use it as a practice within our organisation. For five days, Emmaus Conference Centre in Haslev, Denmark, was our little beehive.
Emmaus is, among other things, an art-gallery, and we were lucky enough to convene in one of its exhibition-rooms. Talk about a conducive space for inspiration and learning! We replaced the walls of the art gallery with our own kind of “art”: post-its and posters for our radical change aspirations peppered with thoughts, ideas and visions produced when seven minds come together to reimagine what sustainable peace could look like – and how we get there. The discussions left us with many new ideas and open-ended questions:
