The coming months will be exciting as I am traveling with my wife Alison and son Dante to India and then spending three months as Visiting Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. This is a graduate school within Nanyang Technological University. While there I will teach a course for masters students entitled Theoretical and Practical Approaches to the Future. We return to Australia in early June.

Before this time in Singapore we will travel around India often in the company of my dear friend Dr Ananta Kumar Giri. We meet up with him in his home town of Chennai and while there will visit Didi Purnima who is a nun running the Ananda Marga Nursery and Primary School in Chennai. We will then travel to Bangalore to attend the World Spiritual Transformation Forum where we will explore Spiritual Pragmatics. This will be immediately followed by the annual FEBRUARY DIALOGUES held at the Fireflies ashram.

While at this gathering we will be joined by Dr Dada Shambhushivananda who runs the Ananda Marga Gurukula movement. He has responsibility for over a thousand schools world wide and is currently establishing a universoty college for Ananda Marga in Purulia, India. He will join us at Fireflies and then meet us again in Bhubaneswar, Orissa where we will take part in a conference on Futures Education at Utkal University. This will be an exciting meeting with much discussion focussed on the nature and shape of the Ananda Marga University College (see: http://gurukul.edu/).

From here we will travel with another friend, Professor Asha Mukherjee to her home in Shantiniketan, West Benagal. This will be special as this was where Ranbindranath Tagore established his university Visva-Bharati_University. The focus of this institution is on building resilient culture and reinforcing the value of the inner world in its graduates.

Lots to do in the coming months!

New Publications

Other news is that I have a new chapter appearing in the book edited by David Cole called Surviving Economic Crises through Education.

Also, there is the article I lead with colleagues involved in the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Initiative - this is a solid coverage of how we approached the question of adaptive capacity within a project using historical case studies as the basis for historical scenarios. You can find it at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2011.12.002