2023-09-11 19:45:00
Bogotá, Sep 11 (EFE).-“The Wellbeing Summit Bogotá”, the first Ibero-American summit in which more than 120 national and international experts will participate, as well as more than 600 social, government and business leaders, will debate about the new awareness of well-being in Latin America.
“The objective is to be able to bring specialists from all over Latin America to present well-being through sessions where people can learn the theory and practice to be able to use it,” the co-creator of The Wellbeing Summit Bogotá, Gaby de Meneses, explained to EFE about the event. which will take place from the 13th to the 16th of this month.
The executive added that “there will be doctors, teachers, social entrepreneurs, businessmen with the aim of using this for the benefit of their communities.”
This event, which is part of a “global initiative” called “Wellbeing Project”, seeks to change society’s concept of well-being since “it is not only physical care because there are others such as emotional well-being, social well-being or financial well-being,” Meneses said.
Through workshops, immersions, ancestral practices, artistic presentations, concerts or writers’ conversations, the keys necessary to achieve well-being will be presented to the nearly one thousand people who will interact during the four days of the summit.
Among the experts will be Mar Cabra, a Spanish journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize; the Colombian writers Piedad Bonnett and Ricardo Silva; Dr. Richard Davidson, who has conducted studies on the neurological basis for promoting human flourishing; and representatives of indigenous communities who “come to share with us their ancestral wisdom”
Colombia, which will be the first country in Latin America to host this summit, has stood out in recent years for the work being done to ensure that well-being reaches all communities, even leading to well-being initiatives in Colombian education. have been awarded around the world.
“There is a lot of work being done on well-being in Colombia, in many communities it is work that has been done thanks to civil society but there are also initiatives from private companies, and this has allowed there to be an interest in learning much more,” confirmed Gaby of Meneses. EFE
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