A Four-Day Feast of Conversation at the Fetzer Institute.

The Purpose of the Gathering

From 19 to 23 November 1999, sixteen people from diverse professional, scholarly, and spiritual backgrounds gathered in the woods at the Fetzer Institute near Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a symposium called "Toward a Participatory Worldview."

To explore this participatory worldview manifested across a wide range of disciplines, Peter Reason proposed a gathering of people, all experts in their various fields, to discuss their vision of this worldview in their lives and work. He extended invitations to men and women who through their w