Home About IEF Conferences Newsletter Resources 9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM

The International Environment Forum held its 9th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, on 14-15 December 2005, as part of the Pre-conference Seminar of the 2005 Bahá'í Conference on Social and Economic Development. The Seminar on "Education for Sustainable Development: The Spiritual Dimension" was sponsored by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and co-sponsored by IEF, members of EDSED (www.edsed.org) and the
U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. See the Conference Programme and Conference Report.  

A beautiful audiovisual presentation was prepared by the Office of External Affairs of the US National Bahá'í Center	9th IEF Annual Conference Orlando, Florida 14-15 December 2005 Photos courtesy of Lloyd Brown	The "fishbowl" allowed people of varied experience to share their perspectives on the theme of the seminar
Sessions were held in the round, or at small tables for the World Café	The spiritual centrepiece created by Lloyd and Lisa Brown and other friends	Steve Cochran (left), Executive Director of the International Center for Leadership, who facilitated the Open Space session, and Peter Adriance, IEF board member who led the organizing team
Small groups were able to go deeply into the issues	Irma Allen, IEF board member from Swaziland, in the fishbowl	IEF President Arthur Dahl and two participants from Haiti
Participants prepared artistic depictions of their consultation on spiritual principles	Gwendolyn Watson provided musical interludes	Ben Brown interviewed participants for a school report on the seminar