This small and highly participatory gathering will allow participants to:
- explore, discuss and agree on key characteristics of profitable business enterprises aligned with Buddhist values
- recommend business models and policy changes to support the development of such enterprises in Europe
- put the idea/culture of Buddhist Business Management on the public agenda
- form a working group to advance the agenda of Buddhist Values in Entrepreneurship
A few experts who are scheduled to inspire, contribute or facilitate at the workshop:
- Dasho Karma Ura, Director, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan
- Prof. Laszlo Zsolnai, Director, Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University Budapest and founder of Buddhist Economics Research Platform
- Dr. Karma Phuntsho, Research Associate in Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge and Founder and Director of the Loden Foundation, Bhutan
- Joel Magnuson, Ph.D., professor of economics in Portland, Oregon, USA. Internationally recognized economist specializing in non-orthodox approaches to political economy.
- Bart Weetjens, awards winning social entrepreneur and Zen Buddhist teacher, APOPO, Tanzania
- Dharmachari Keturaja, managing director of Windhorse: evolution which started in 1980 as a market stall in London and has expanded to become one of the leading suppliers of giftware in the UK based on 5 principles or values, derived from the Buddha’s teachings of the five ethical precepts: Generosity, Ethics, Personal development, Collectivity and community, and Commercial viability.
- Zoltan Valcsicsak, founder of The Social Profit Maker; president of the Hungarian Bhutan Friendship Society
- Other entrepreneurs, policy makers, academics, students
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The workhop is inspired by Bhutans Gross National Happiness and designed for approx. 50 open to anyone from the business or academic sectors interested or involved in Buddhist Business & Economics as well as to entrepreneurs, university students and leaders of Buddhist organizations.
Participants are not required to demonstrate hands-on business experience, but invited to actively participate in the discussion and shape final outcomes at the workshop. Participants from outside of Europe are also welcomed.
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