These questions will be focused in two practical dimensions:

• How to create and enact individual motivation and courage for ecological change based on creativity and the joy of engagement?
• How to engage and integrate institutional or social actors by overcoming inertia and self-centered attitudes?

Mental condition (thinking, feeling, will) is shaped by our ways of thinking and evaluating internal as well as external processes (mind and nature). This is not fixed. We can learn to live in harmony within ourselves and with our environment. Many people (especially indigenous cultures in the forests) do still have a mentality we can learn from. In modern sciences this is being taken up by fascinating research about the life (and sensitivity) of plants and animals: Plants and animals are not objects to our disposal but co-beings, and we humans share our life with them. What does this mean for our communication with other forms of life, and for the development of our technologies which are not tools for using and exploiting nature in destructive ways, but instruments for sharing with nature the fundamental resources of life. If we develop patterns for our life style which are based on the three aspects of this title as interconnected resources, we might develop a spiritual ecology in depth.

• First we want to enable our students as decision makers of the future to understand the mental condition and social restrictions as well as opportunities to master the ecological turn.
   
• Second we want to enlarge our network among universities and strengthen our ties with them and with research institutions around the globe in order to make the contribution of ULP to the transformative processes in view of the ecological turn viable.

In order to foster these goals the WS will bring eminent scholars together so as to inspire the participants to creative ways of thinking, rethinking, stimulating appropriate emotions and organize action.

The basic proposition of all our activities is the realization that all aspects and forms of life are interrelated.

1. Seminal lectures by outstanding scholars and champions of ecological change will start processes of rethinking
    
2. which are reflected and actualized in panel discussions
    
3. leading to the formulation of virtual projects which will be worked out as group papers under the tuition of experienced professors and alumni of our previous Winter Schools.
    
4. The papers will be evaluated by a team of scholars. There will be prizes for the best three papers.