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The Mind and Sustainable Development Establishing the Necessary Internal Mental Conditions for a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future Changing how we Understand and Manage Existence and Development Through Education and Training in Mental Development and Growth Today, we face a global crisis of related and connected human, social and ecological problems. The human problems, in their essence, are how we understand and deal with our inner mental life. The social problems are how we relate and interact with each other. The ecological issues include how we deal with nature and the natural environment. The shared goals and values we need today should be sustainable, equitable, secure and peaceful development; ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, and individually secure and peaceful development. What is needed is a paradigm change, a different view and understanding of life and existence; a different way of understanding and managing human existence and development. Human life and existence are not just elements of society, the economy or business. On the contrary, society, the economy and business are elements of human life and existence. We must understand and manage human existence and development in an ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, individually secure and peaceful way. It involves developing the knowledge, understanding and mental faculties to understand and manage human existence and development within the natural parameters, boundaries and limits of existence set by nature. In the process, society, the economy and business become sustainable, equitable, secure and peaceful. We need to understand and manage existence and development from the ground up, at the level of the natural conditions of existence, starting with the individual, the mind and mental existence. The mind is where we consciously exist and act. This is where we experience, become aware and must consider the conditions of existence and how to deal with them. Change and transformation need to start in the mind. _______ © 2023 Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development. All rights reserved. No material from this site may be used in part or in whole by any other publication or web site without the written permission of the Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development.

Power Points Creating the Necessary Conditions for a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future The Natural Conditions of Existence, our Role in Them Inside the Mind: Understanding and Dealing with the Mind as the Place where we Consciously Exist and Act Establishing and Maintaining the Necessary Internal Mental Conditions Managing and Improving the Self: Considering, Planning and Organizing Ahead Development, Change and Transformation from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out The Human Condition: How as a Species we Got to Where we Find Ourselves Today Beyond Religion, Philosophy and Science: Existence and Development from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out Sustainable Development: Understanding and Managing Existence and Development within the Natural Parameters Education and Training in Mental Development and Growth: Education and Training for a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future Future Scenario: Understanding and Managing Existence and Development from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out Discussion Papers Mental Health: The Missing Element Mental Health, Moving Forward on the Issue Beyond Quantitative Development: On the Nature of Qualitative Development Getting the Fundamentals and Essentials Right, Dealing with the Environment and Climate Change Towards a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Development and Future