THE WELLBEING SOCIETY
ISBN: 9786167368771
ผู้แต่ง : Hans van Willenswaard
ผู้แปล : -
สำนักพิมพ์ : สวนเงินมีมา
ปีที่พิมพ์ : 2559
จำนวนหน้า : 224
This year Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise celebrates its 15th anniversary.
The social enterprise manages a bookshop, coffee house and restaurant in the old city centre of Bangkok. At this occasion Hans van Willenswaard, co-founder, compiled a thought provoking book for Sulak Sivaraksa’s 84th birthday in 2017.
Ajarn Sulak enabled the start-up and was the first chairman of the shareholders’ community. The book describes an engaging learning journey that begins from meeting Ajarn Sulak in the Netherlands and reflects on a remarkable diversity of encounters in Thailand, SE Asia, and in Bhutan.
The book leads to the question how interactions between activists, intellectuals and practitioners from Asia and Europe, in particular around The Hague. City of Peace and Justice can play a creative role in the search for a new development paradigm, a new understanding of rights and duties regarding land and ‘the commons’, and a Wellbeing Society with organic agriculture at its heart.
Hans van Willenswaard is a Dutch citizen who live with his wife Wallapa in Thailand. Hans grew up in a small town at the Nort Sea coast near Loverendale farm. The first bio-dynamic farm in the Netherlands. He was educated in the revolutionary 60ies as a’cultural worker’. Hans was one of the co-founders of meditation center De kosmos in Amsterdam and co-intiated a ‘tea-house’ at Mozes & Aaron Church, turning it into a public space where he also enabled Vipassana meditation course. He worked in various youth centres in the country. After his training in rural development at Emerson College, U.K., he intiated an experimental development studies programme at Hogesschool Zeeland, now Zeeland University of Applied Sciences.