The Summit themes: Health, healing, wellness, happiness. All the strings of Slow Living tie to these themes. When communities focus on health and happiness, they take on all the other key aspects of Slowness — they become resilient, vibrant, great places to live and work. They thrive by building healthy local economies, by encouraging sustainable entrepreneurship, by integrating the arts into community life, by building strong, supportive educational systems, health systems and opportunities for all.
At the 2014 Summit, you’ll experience an exciting interplay between speakers, artists and audience as we all learn from each other. Artistic content — music, dance, drama, visual art — will be woven into Summit, not as preludes or warm-ups, but as a natural, integral component of the Summit, amplifying and interpreting the messages of speakers, and involving the audience in participative ways.