Intergenerational Dialogue

Feather Project Tour to India

sri_sri_ravi_shankar_and_swami_maheshwarananda_small It is time to add a new chapter to the Feather Project – the Feather Project’s tour to India! For two weeks (from 24 October - 5 November) Rabbi Soetendorp, Michael Slaby and Ashley Young traveled through India to record Feather messages of moral and spiritual leaders, young activists and visionaries, and to take part in the Earth Charter + 10 “Framework for a Sustainable World” Conference held in Ahmedabad.

This conference concluded with a “threads of sustainability” ceremony organized in Mahatma Gandhi’s historical ashram in Ahmedabad where Gandhi’s hand-spun cotton was passed from speaker to speaker. Participants included His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, His Holiness Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Sr. Valeriane Bernand of the Brahma Kumaris, Rabbi Soetendorp and several young people from India and Bangladesh.

Find more pictures of the journey here.

Soetendorp Institute launches the Feather Project

At the Earth Charter + 10 Conference in the Peace Palace in The Hauge on June 29, the Soetendorp Institute launched the Feather Project, which is a collaborative effort to build intergenerational dialogue and collaboration between elders and youth, and to draw upon the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions to address the major global challenges humanity is facing.

Watch the Feather Trailer on YouTube:

Watch Michael Slaby explain the Feather Project

At the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia, Michael Slaby was interviewed about the Feather Project that the Jacob Soetendorp Institute for Human Values intends to realize in 2010. The project that was suggested by Chief Oren Lyons, Faith Keeper of the of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation and involved the production of video documentaries with moral leaders of our time, asking the simple question: "Based on your life experience, what lesson would you like to share with the next generation?". Please send an e-mail to Michael Slaby if you are interested in the concept paper of the Project.