Miha featured in business books

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]

Miha appears in a chapter
“MUSIC, MAGIC, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE”
in the exciting new book by Mitch Lewis “Climbing your personal Everest“.

[/av_textblock]

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’]

[av_image src=’https://mihavision.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/miha-everest-featured-300×214.jpg’ attachment=’3499′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’center’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’][/av_image]

[/av_one_full][av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’]

[av_hr class=’short’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]

Chapter Six

MUSIC, MAGIC, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

Leaving behind fame and acclaim, Miha Pogacnik now helps transform the world through art

 

Violinist Miha Pogacnik is a modern-day wizard.

True, in recent decades, words like that have lost their meaning through misuse and marketing hyperbole. When anyone with something to sell can force powerful language to serve small and ignoble goals, it’s easy to forget that such things as genuine wizardry and magic still exist.

Occasionally, however, a person comes along to remind us, and Pogacnik is one of them. Born in 1949 in war-ravaged Slovenia, he is a true master of musical magic — not content simply to entertain or enthrall an audience, or to bask in their praise and applause. As a young man, he achieved all of that, ascending to the top among his peers to become a rising-star soloist, sought after and respected. His path into “greatness” was laid out before him, and traditional “success” was his for the taking. Instead, he walked away and chose a different road. Or, to be precise, he carved his own, brand-new course through the wilderness of limited and limiting options.

“Something was fundamentally wrong–that you put so much energy into mastering your skills and the magic, and then when you are finished people applaud and they love it, and then it’s over,” Pogacnik says, his words shaped by an endearing Slovenian accent. “They go home to drink or sit in front of the television. I always felt that when the concert is finished, then the beginning should happen, not the end.”

Since leaving a conventional life behind, he has pursued that elusive “beginning” across a long and winding career, marked by bold action and visionary thinking. The years have forged him, turning him into an alchemist bent on harnessing the mystical power of music to turn the base metals of the present-day human condition into the original, magical gold we all possess, but have forgotten lies within us. It’s a grand mission aimed at nothing short of the social and cultural transformation of the world.

“In the deepest province of the human soul, there is magic,” he says. “That’s what we are. Unfortunately, there is so much dust and ash covering it these days. In essence what I do is go around opening the dampers in people’s lives so the fire flares up again.”

 

 

Taming Turbo Capitalism

To grasp the nature of Pogacnik’s twenty-first-century work — what he refers to as his “fourth life” — imagine yourself in his “laboratory.” Picture a broad stage where all the skilled musicians in a philharmonic orchestra are seated in curved rows, instruments at the ready, eyes on their conductor and soloist. Feel the breathless anticipation in the sudden silence as Pogacnik lifts his violin bow, all the potential energy of a musical masterpiece waiting for release. The music begins, and a galaxy of dancing sound appears in the room.

Yet in this scene you don’t play the role of detached observer looking down from the balcony. You are embedded in it, seated in a row of chairs placed between the stringed instruments and the woodwinds. You feel the vibrating frequencies of music caress your skin through the air and rumble in your bones as it rises out of the floor. Your heart expands with emotion until you fear you’ll burst. The music is a buoyant force that nearly lifts you free of gravity itself.

The picture isn’t complete, however, until you look to your left and right and see the true purpose behind the gathering of musicians. Without this, the entire exercise is just another performance of timeless music — marvelous, perhaps, but without the full potential for the kind of alchemy Pogacnik seeks to create.

Because seated beside you are a number of high-ranking executives from some of the world’s largest and wealthiest corporations. These are powerful men and women, decision-makers, whose actions every day have profound influence over the lives of millions of others — trillions, if you include the non-human creatures with whom we share the planet. They sit in boardrooms and back rooms around the world and literally chart the future of humankind through the values they express in their choices and priorities.

“Some start crying,” Pogacnik muses. “It’s like a catharsis. They remember they are human. They forget their power and rank. If you get people close to that point, then suddenly everything is possible, and it’s not just the bottom line and profit margins. The real things come to the surface.”

Pogacnik believes society has lost sight of a fundamental truth — that the world’s economy must exist to serve the needs of the people, not the other way around. His remedy is to confront the “anomaly of one-sided economic thinking” with an alternative way of seeing, found in the power of great art to restore equilibrium. To do that, he goes straight to the top of the corporate chain of command.

 

A Backward Accordion

That sweeping vision has humble roots in the industrial city of Kranj, Slovenia. In 1952, Pogacnik was three years old, in a nation still suffering the aftermath of World War II and coming to grips with the new reality of belonging to the post-war Soviet Bloc. Modern entertainments like television were non-existent, but each weekend the family would walk for the better part of a day into the mountains for traditional celebrations of music and food.

“I became amazed at how the people enjoyed the music, how they danced to the accordion,” Pogacnik recalls. “When my father saw me pretending to play music, with a small chair as an instrument, he bought me a little paper accordion.”

Pogacnik instantly began making music of his own — but with a twist. Not knowing better, he held the instrument backward, consequently learning to play the melody with his left hand instead of the right. A few years later, his would-be music teachers noticed this fact and understood that it gave him a head start in learning to play another instrument that would become his lifelong passion: the violin. That story would also instill in him a deep appreciation for the wisdom of trusting the often-unexpected magic in the twists and turns of life.

“Violin came to me by mistake, not by knowing violin or aspiring, but by the mystery of the mistake in life,” Pogacnik says.

His first teacher excelled at instilling enthusiasm, he says, but did a lousy job of conveying good technique. Even so, by the time he was six years old, Pogacnik had already won regional violin competitions. At age eleven, he was sent to the big city of Maribor to compete — and heard a “real violinist” for the first time in his life, someone who truly understood the magic in the music and was passionate about getting it right.

“I was reduced to nothing,” he recalls. “Nothing. That’s when inspiration came that enabled me to not do what the other boys were doing around me. I determined to practice and practice and reach for the impossible.”

It turned out that practice and mastery weren’t the only “impossible” things Pogacnik would have to reach for. Quickly realizing he wanted more than his current teacher could deliver, he announced his intention to travel to the nearby city of Ljubljana to study with someone else. It didn’t matter that his teacher responded by throwing a music stand or that his otherwise supportive parents locked him in his room. He climbed out the window, made the trip, and was accepted into the school. For two years, he went twice a week by bus for the opportunity to learn. His first teacher there began the work of undoing all of his bad habits.

“He completely took me apart,” Pogacnik says. “I was below zero when I started over.”

But start over he did. He pushed himself extremely hard, diving deep into the music. In the process, he laid the foundation for a philosophy that would guide him throughout his life: the ability to think like a “radical.”

“Always I was radical. If you want to be a soloist, you have to be radical to yourself. You have to practice like mad. And of course, you have to learn how to practice. One can meditate and just repeat the word a billion times and nothing happens. In other words, one has to develop techniques and routines that will eventually bear fruit.”

This radical path led him out of the East to Cologne, Germany, at age seventeen to study music on a prestigious scholarship for foreigners — then to the United States at twenty-four as a Fulbright Scholar.

 

A Hundred Years Behind

To become a soloist in the world of classical music is the dream of thousands of gifted performers, the pinnacle of success. By his late twenties, Pogacnik had captured the prize, well on his way to a long career among the elite musicians of the world. It was a stunning achievement for a boy from an isolated country who learned to play the wrong way on a paper accordion. It was also a source of deep internal crisis. It set the stage for a moment of decision that would cost him everything — and also, in magical fashion, deliver everything he has since come to value.

“As I started my career, I pretty soon noticed that the world in which you act as a violinist is about a hundred years behind the rest of the world,” Pogacnik says. “It’s stuck in an organizational system in which you have to do certain things, you have to know certain people, you have to win certain competitions. You play concerts and there are thousands and thousands who are waiting for you to be out of the system so they can come take your place.”

What bothered him most was the self-serving nature of the entire structure. It offered no opportunity, he felt, to step outside the confines of the system “in order to become an element of social change, to really reach the situation in which the world has gotten itself.” He knew that music had much more to offer than the status quo would allow — because he believed that it literally was much more than lifeless frequencies vibrating in the air. He knew it was magic.

“I have always been trying to unlock the mystery, why was music in the ancient cultures so powerful? Thousands of years ago, music was regarded as the most sacred and most powerful element of society, and therefore you had to be bloody careful how you handled it. I wanted to know, what are the deeper secrets of musical magic that we have forgot in the process of making it aesthetic and formal?”

So he turned his back on the life of comfort and prestige that all his hard work had earned him. He set out on a quest to be a musician of the highest quality he could possibly attain — and an agent of needed change in the world.

 

Go Against the Odds

The first leg of the journey took Pogacnik in an unexpected direction — to a place that became for him a classroom of preparation for everything that would follow. He was invited to teach music at the Camphill Village Residential Community for adults with developmental disabilities. Founded in 1961 on 615 acres in upstate New York, the organization was part of a growing American movement to challenge how society treats people with special needs. Though he didn’t know it at the time, that mission fit perfectly with his desire to create a model for music performance that invited audiences to do more than simply listen for intellectual stimulation. He wanted to make them deeply feel the music.

“Those people forced me to teach them how to listen, which to me seemed obvious,” Pogacnik recalls. “I said, ‘What can you do? You just play and you listen.’ They said, ‘No, we don’t understand.’ The key question was how can I, as a performer who goes full steam into a masterpiece, transfer that so that it goes beyond aesthetics, beyond beautiful music? How can I build a bridge? These people were my teachers.”

To meet this challenge, Pogacnik discovered anew how to be fully present when he played, to go beyond performance and become a “phenomenologist” — someone who studies the relationship between human consciousness and experience. The key idea in this philosophical discipline is that experience is intimately intertwined with intention and self-awareness. And it worked. A bond was created between him and his so-called “handicapped” audience that transcended anything he’d experienced before.

“That created an opportunity for people to start looking at the role of art in inner human development, spiritual development, which can be supported by immersing oneself deeply into the great arts,” he says.

And it opened the door for what Pogacnik calls his first “little festivals” — one-day events aimed at testing a bold idea: could he create a new kind of concert that involved his audiences as partners, not spectators, in crafting a musical experience?

It’s a question that he has spent his life attempting to answer.

In April 1981, he held the first of many music festivals at the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France. In 1983, in the shadow of heightened Cold War tensions — when Europe was in turmoil over the deployment of U.S. Pershing missiles on German soil — Pogacnik organized a festival in his home country of Slovenia. It was the first of its kind since the Iron Curtain had descended across the continent — and drew eight hundred people from Western Europe who travelled there to attend.

“It was the first time that the artists didn’t just travel to give a concert–the audience traveled too, to be a part of social change,” he says. “The idea was to go to places that are in distress and see what happens if you meet the locals in such a condition.”

From there he organized weeklong festivals in Budapest, Prague, all over East Germany and the Soviet Union. Everywhere he went, concert halls were packed with locals and westerners alike, enabling a powerful grassroots cultural exchange. All of it involved hours and hours of work and expenses that seemed to only be met by magic.

But he never stopped thinking big. One trip involved renting seven ships and visiting towns all along the coast of Yugoslavia during the bloody war in the 1990s. Another filled a Trans-Siberian railway train with musicians and other cultural thinkers for a three-week long journey from Berlin to Ulan Bator in Mongolia.

“What I learned is that one should never give up,” he says. “Go against all the odds. That has been confirmed over and over in my life. If you have a high inspiration, never mind that it doesn’t show results immediately. Just keep going.”

 

A Wall Comes Down

In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall changed everything — yet again — for Pogacnik. Overnight, the ideals of freedom and cultural cooperation that had fueled his festivals across Eastern Europe were replaced by a singular force: capitalism.

“In Eastern Europe, I saw people completely changing their soul make-up of a Slavic kind of life in order to fit into this globalized western kind of thinking,” Pogacnik remembers. “Suddenly, there was not much meaning except surviving.”

A stark example of this fundamental shift came in Dresden, East Germany. Before the wall fell, Pogacnik gave a concert there in a hall packed with people hungry to immerse in the music. A year later, in the same place, only a handful showed up. It was a wake-up call revealing a new reality and the challenge inherent in the composition of this new world: How to form an economy that exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Above all, Pogacnik still believed the answer lay in music and the other great arts.

“The arts represent the courtyard before you enter the temple of transformation,” he says. “They tune you up to that frequency with which you can enter the temple of knowledge. I’m not just an activist to be active on the outside, but I’m also working to create the inner capital, the spiritual capital that brings dynamic balance.”

In perhaps the hardest life transition of all, Pogacnik abandoned the festivals he had worked so hard to create over the years — “threw them in the dust,” as he likes to say. He started over, not to oppose capitalism and its leaders, but to speak to them through the medium of music, to inspire them to see past the bottom line. It’s not easy work, nor is it easy for those who are touched by his message. At heart Pogacnik has never stopped being a radical, and he pushes others to the radical life as well, come what may.

“When people ask me what is real inspiration, I say go to the mountain just after the lightning hits and have a look what happens. You’ll see all the smoldering trees and all the rest.”

In other words, he says, don’t be afraid of the kind of inspiration that burns down all that you think you know, so that something new can take its place. Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to follow your dream.

“We live in a very pragmatic time,” he reflects. “We are not capable of grasping what idealism means, really. It’s very rare to find people who have a blazing idealism. If you have very high ideals about what you’d like to achieve, then all of the setbacks don’t kill it. Your ideals fuel resiliency and fire your passion, so you can start again.”
[/av_textblock]

[av_hr class=’short’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’]

[av_hr class=’default’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′]

[/av_one_full]

Miha’s Elevator Talk

We are in the elevator and an unknown person, probably an executive in a global brand
company, turns to me and says:

– “Is that a violin in your case? Performing a concert tonight?”

(Here we are: I am pigeonholed: violinist = glorified entertainer!)

– “No. I am on my way to an event to help executives like you find their own solutions for their problems.”

– “With violin??? Serious?”

– “Dead serious. I will help them to listen to the process of a genius masterpiece, get them passionate with out-of-the-box solutions emerging from musical complications and empower their own solution-sparks to jump the line back to their leadership dilemma, surprise, surprise: resolving, implementing.  Creative detour – the fastest road to the goal! With 100% engagement, like true artists, no SMSing during my session! At the end I will perform, and they will hear the performing organisation! And my promise: they will never forget those change messages…”

(we are approaching the ground floor.)

– “But my team does not necessarily like classical music!”

– “Brilliant starting point: Art is not about liking, it is about real change and transformation!”

– “But I am afraid my boss will not like it…!?”

– “Well, then you might better get yet another PowerPoint presentation!”

(Uhhhhhsh, the doors open.)

– “May I have your business card… CIO, Chief INSPIRATION Officer…???!”

– “Yes, you need inspiration if you want your change event to hit the bottom line!”
Gone in the crowd… gone?

Invitation to Terra parzival quest with Miha Pogačnik

Dear Reader,

You may already be familiar with my innovative method from past workshops on Art, Leadership and Business.

Inside Orchestra.png

This time, on July 28th 2019, you are invited to sit amongst the musicians inside the Ptuj Castle and become an integral part of a whole Symphony Orchestra under my own leadership and musical supervision. You will experience how the emotional structure of a musical masterpiece can be transferred into the strategy of managing yourself and your company. 

Miha2.png
Miha1.png

The Orchestra event from last April was a total success for our Slovenian finest leaders as well as managers of top global companies. We will have reputable guests again and are expecting high-level socializing! The music content although new is a continuation of the April Orchestra. This unique event is part of a four-day questival on the theme « Remember The Future, Terra Parzival Awakening » in the beautiful lands of Slovenia.

Parzival.png

The day starts at 9:30 am, in the Palace, with an introductory narrative (Dr. Davorin Peršič) of the Knight Parzival and his life path from ignorance to the highest responsibility when he becomes King of the Holy Grail. The story of this mysterious, highly important European Medieval legend is anchored in the vicinity of Ptuj. I will combine the interdisciplinary impact of Music and other types of Art with the Parzival archetype and use it as our guide for what a leading personality is all about.

The musical process and performance (Johannes Brahms, Violin Concert Op.77) begins at 11 am in the Festival Hall (my method can be found at www.mihavision.com).

At 13:30 pm, we will have a joint debriefing of experiences on the impact of the new « Art & Economy » paradigm followed by a « networking » lunch in the Castle Yard.

As it is summer time, we are also inviting partners with a parallel « Knighthood » program especially prepared for children!

The entire 4-day program can be found in www.terraparzival.net

Looking forward to seeing you in Terra Parzival!

Miha Pogacnik

Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

www.mihavision.com

Mob. 00352 661 485158 

Links to 3 videos from April

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ua9nsdyhr8javud/Finale%20Painting%20Orchestra_1min07sec.mp4?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzi4avbs8ifpfzm/Miha%20Leadership_43sec.mp4?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uc1375i8u93s2yp/Inside%20Orchestra_24sec.mp4?dl=

Investment for programme, storytelling, orchestra, debriefing and networking lunch:
€200, with partner €300, programme for kids by agreements.

If you want to participate for whole event (28. 21. 7) price is €400.

Hotel Mitra Ptuj

Peter Vesenjak

Peter.vesenjak@hosting.si

0038627877455

0038641 514 020

Account info:

 IBAN: SI56041730001588278
 
 Account holder:
 Name: Ustanova Gandin fundacija
 Address: Dolane 1, 2282 Cirkulane, Slovenia
 
 Bank:
 Name: Nova KBM d.d.
 Address: Ulica Vita Kraigherja 4, 2505 Maribor, Slovenia
 SWIFT: KBMASI2X
VABILO NA TERRA PARZIVAL QUEST Z MIHOM POGAČNIKOM

Ptujski grad 28 Julij 2019, 9:30-14:45h

Ta dopoldanski dogodek z orkestrom (v anglescini) je del štiridnevnega questivala Remember The FutureTerra Parzival Awakening”

Spoštovani!

Morda že poznate mojo inovacijo na področju vodenja (prosim, poglejte spodaj izjave Andreja Božiča in Sonje Šmuc) .

Inside Orchestra.png

28. julija 2019 dopoldne boste imeli priložnost, da na Ptujskem gradu sedite med izvajalci simfoničnega orkestra in pod mojim vodstvom doživite transfer emocionalne strukture glasbene mojstrovine v strategijo vodenja samega sebe in podjetja in tako izkusite mojo inovacijo v živo.

Miha2.png

Miha1.png

Premiera podobnega dogodka na Ptujskem gradu je bila 6. aprila in Slovenski udelezenci so sedeli v orkestru skupaj z menedžerji tujih globalnih podjetij. Ponovno bomo imeli ugledne goste in pricakujemo druženje na visokem nivoju! Glasbena vsebina nova, nadaljevanje aprilskega dogodka.

Najprej boste ob 9:30h v palaciju (Dr. Davorin Peršič) doživeli uvodno pripoved o vitezu Parzivalu in njegovi življenjske poti iz ignorance do najvišje odgovornosti, ko postane kralj svetega Grala. Ta skrivnostna najpomembnejša evropska srednjeveška legenda je zasidrana v okolici Ptuja.

Parzival.png

Poleg meddisciplinarnega vpliva glasbe in drugih zvrsti umetnosti uporabljamo Parzivala kot pravzorec za razvoj vodilne osebnosti.

Glasbeni proces in izvedba (Johannes Brahms, Violinski koncert Op.77) se začne ob 11h v slavnostni dvorani (mojo metodo lahko spoznate na www.mihavision.com).

Ob 13:30 Sledi skupen debriefing doživetja, izmenjava izkušenj o vplivu nove paradigme umetnosti&gospodarstva in “networking” kosilo na grajskem dvorišču.

Ker je to poletni termin vabimo tudi partnerje in za otroke bo pripravljen paralelni “viteški” program!

Miha Pogacnik

Veleposlanik  Kulture republike Slovenije

www.mihavision.com

Mob. 00352 661 485158

Andrej Božič:

“Orkester je najstarejši najbolje delujoči vodstveni tim.

Dirigent brez strastnih in tehnično briljantnih glasbenikov ne pomeni nič, brez njega pa je ta kolektiv samo skupek briljantnih posameznikov.

Vsi so enako pomembni, violine se ne prerekajo z violami ali tolkali, samo če vsi delujejo skupaj, ubrano v flowu, je rezultat glasba , ki te ponese , motivira, vzbuja kreativnost, strategijo,…

To se občuti in ne potrebujes biti strokovnjak.

Prav zato je to doživetje z Mihom nekaj enkratnega in je velika lekcija iz vodenja, hkrati pa čisti užitek in dragocena izkušnja drugačnega doživljanja koncerta !”

Sonja Šmuc:

Iskanje svetega grala, ki navdihuje viteza Parzivala, povezanega s Terro Parzival, je hrepenenje človeka, da najde odgovor na večno vprašanje o smislu življenja. Zakaj sem tu? Kako se moji dihi prepletajo z ritmom človeštva?

Miha Pogacnik s svojo virtuozno metodo seciranja clovekovih globin ob zvokih violine in orkestra interpretira svetovne glasbene mojstrovine tako, da slišimo Bacha, Beethovna, Mozarta na nov, meddisciplinaren način  …, in tako odstirajo nepomembno, boleče, skrito v duši in potrkajo na sveti gral, ki ga nosimo v sebi. Potovanje z Miho je raziskovanje, ki pušča sled, tam kjer največ šteje. V nas.

Investicija za program, pripoved, orkester, debriefing in networking kosilo:

€200, z partnerjem €300 , program za otroke po dogovoru.

Če se želite udeležiti celotnega dogodka (28-31.7) € 400

Informacije in prijava:

Hotel Mitra Ptuj

Peter Vesenjak

Peter.vesenjak@hosting.si

027877455

041 514 020

Informacije o računu za nakazilo:

 IBAN: SI56041730001588278
 
 Account holder:
 Name: Ustanova Gandin fundacija
 Address: Dolane 1, 2282 Cirkulane, Slovenia
 
 Bank:
 Name: Nova KBM d.d.
 Address: Ulica Vita Kraigherja 4, 2505 Maribor, Slovenia
 SWIFT: KBMASI2X
PARZIVAL’S CASTLE BORL-ANKENSTEIN IS CALLING! JULY 27-31, 2019

[av_two_third first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’]

[av_image src=’https://mihavision.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image001.jpg’ attachment=’3591′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’left’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’][/av_image]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
TerraParzival, Slovenia
[/av_textblock]

[/av_two_third][av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
I am standing on the terrace of castle Borl-Ankenstein and looking back on 42 years of the IDRIART movement. Looking back through the memory of the old tower, to the knight Parzival and his time in the 9th century; His response to the call of the Grail.

How does this call resound in the 21st century?  What kind of listening is required to hear it?

We invite you to join to listen and celebrate in TerraParzival, July 27-31, 2019. You will hear the Parzival story told in various authentic locations, in relation to the challenges of our time. Supported by the power of Music-Process and recalibration of World-View. Together we will listen and set the stage for the emerging future!

Often in crisis locations and times, some 200 intercultural IDRIART Festivals proved the power of resonance when music and other Arts became the humanity platform of meetings. Yet this is not enough!

WE all live in an off-balanced „economic society“; for that reason I personally have ventured the last  28 years on a  learning journey with my violin, through the leadership floors of numerous companies and corporations world wide, uncovering the magic  of the formative forces of the arts; de-mixing and re-composing ailing relationships of culture, politics and economics.

What can we learn? How can we in TerraParzival inspire and learn from the centenary celebration of Rudolf Steiner’s Treefold Societal Composition and original Waldorf education principles in July? The Parzival story is one of the curriculum pillars in the 11th grade when young people ripen to reach for their highest ideals!  Where are the profound IDEALS in our digital-permeated society?? My motto is:

NO digitalisation without humanisation!

If you „hear“ this call, please reserve the date, offer suggestions, more details will follow.

Miha Pogacnik and  TerraParzival Team

www.terraparzival.net (soon updated!)

www.mihavision.com

Contact:
Anita Puksic

anita.puksic@gmail.com

0038631496537
[/av_textblock]

[/av_one_full]