Scilla Elworthy: Dare to Question why we are so afraid of getting Older
Scilla Elworthy says that invisibility is one of the key things about getting older, because all our emphasis now is on looking younger. It’s what we put our passion into, what we spend our money on. Everyday Western media bombards us with encouragements to make ourselves look young because ‘you’re worth it!”. Scilla wonders if it’s just all about an obsession with image.
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ABOUT Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy Ph.D founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from peace-builders in conflict areas; it was awarded ‘Best New Charity’ at the Charity Awards 2005.
From 2005 she was adviser to Sir Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in setting up ‘The Elders’ initiative.Two years later she was appointed a member of the World Future Council and the International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy.
In 1982 she founded the Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. It was for this work that she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She helped found the Market Theatre in South Africa in 1976, long before it was legal for multi-racial performances to take place, and has since worked with Playwrights and Directors, including David Edgar and Max Stafford Clark, to engage the public in political theatre.
She has designed the Leadership Course in Conflict Transformation for the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, and is co-founder of ‘The Pilgrimage’ – a 24-hour Intensive Course that enables participants to make major shifts in consciousness and perception.”
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