NEW GLOUCESTER – A conference titled “Communiversity for the 21st Century” will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, at the Pineland Visitor Center.

The conference will offer educators, community organizers, town leaders, business people and concerned citizens new strategies for addressing the increasing challenges they face in their work and communities.

Today’s national and international crises require people to reinvent the ways they relate to each other in classrooms and at every level of society. The conference creators have responded by envisioning a communiversity in which whole communities learn together continuously, then apply that learning to meet the needs of their schools, towns and businesses, protect the environment and support the whole family of life.

The Latin word “commissio” means the act of bringing together. That definition is at the heart of the “Communiversity for the 21st Century.” Education provides individual learning; the communiversity provides whole organization and community learning by integrating different ideas and interests in a creative collaborative context.

Participants will gather a new vocabulary; explore new ways of seeing; invent and practice new ways of being together; begin the creation of their “Communiversity for the 21st Century.”

For more information on the conference, visit the upcoming events page at www.natureplanningnetwork.org or contact the Nature Planning Network at [email protected].