Webinars and Online Workshops

Event Description

Richard Denniss joins NENA to break down Australia's 2022 Federal Budget, explaining how our collective financial resources have been allocated and what it means for the well-being of our society.

For more information, you can check out the webinar recording on NENA's YouTube channel here.

In this webinar, NENA's Women in the New Economy Hub addresses the role that women and feminised knowledges and wisdoms can play in shaping post-covid futures dedicated to well-being and embedding economies that are life enhancing, not death-making.

For more information, view the webinar on NENA's YouTube channel here.

The role of arts, culture and creativity is critically important to our vision of a ‘wellbeing economy’ and society. But given the challenges the arts sector has traditionally faced – and which have been exacerbated by COVID lockdowns and restrictions – what is the future of the arts sector and artists in Australia?

For more information, view the webinar on NENA's YouTube channel here.

Co-hosted by the NENA Post-Extractivism Hub & Blockade IMARC, this important webinar is an introduction to extractivism and its impacts.

For more information, view the webinar on NENA's YouTube channel here.

NENA and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) ran this workshop on how to design policies for a wellbeing economy.

For more information, view the recording on NENA's YouTube channel here.

See Amanda Janoo's presentation here.

Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'

Webinar 6 - Post-Eurocentric Visions of Quality of Life

Guest speakers:

• Dr. Milena Büchs - "From the growth-welfare nexus to sustainable welfare within planetary boundaries"
• Nûjîn Derya - “Liberating life. On women's knowledge, social organising and our common struggle. Learnings from the Kurdish women's liberation movement.”
• Ajahn Brahmali - “The Buddhist Idea of a Good Life”
  

Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'

Webinar 5 - Post-Capitalist Visions of Quality of Life

Guest speakers:

• Dr Nick Rose - "From commodity to commons; healing ourselves, healing nature"
• Loriana Luccioni - “Post-Capitalism and Universal, Unconditional Basic Income. Change the language to shift the values”
• Prof. Devan Pillay - “Marx meets Buddha:  Ecosocialism, wellbeing and the pursuit of happiness”

This workshop included three presentations providing important updates about cooperative governance in Australia, a panel discussion with the guest speakers, a Q&A session and an opportunity for people to ask advice about setting up and managing their own cooperative.

SPEAKERS

• Antony McMullen - Co-operative Bonds

• Anthony Taylor - Business Council of Cooperatives & Mutuals (BCCM)

• Eleanor Coffey - Redgum Cleaning Co-operative (Earthworker)

For more information, click here to watch the recording on NENA's YouTube channel.

Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'

'Post-capitalist Visions of Quality of Life': Part of Social Sciences Week, Australia

Hear from three distinguished guest speakers, hosted by NENA and the University of Newcastle.

Guest speakers:

• Prof. Noam Chomsky - "Imagining the Future – if there is one!"
• A./Prof. Ariel Salleh - “Some Ecological Feminist Thoughts on Wellbeing”
• Prof. Gar Alperovitz - “Democratizing the Economy: Practical Advances and Long Term Strategy”

Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'

Webinar 3 - 'Pluriversal Visions of Quality of Life'

Guest speakers:

• Adjunct Professor Victoria-Grieve Williams - "Everywhen: Autonomy, Altruism and Living Well"
• A/Prof. Sara Motta - “Democracy (M)otherwise: Enfleshments from the Margins of Modernity”
• Prof . Ashish Kothari - “Ecoswaraj: a Radical Ecological Democracy Towards Justice and Sustainability”