Breakfast Seminar 19th November 2016 Courageous and Vulnerable Hope as a Power for Change People thirst for hope. As pilgrims, we are always The breakfast seminar, presented by Prof. underway, making us in essence a hoping people, Homo Patrick Nullens, is an introduction to the upcoming masterclasses both in Viator, as French existentialist Gabriel Marcel Rotterdam and Leuven. The concepts explicated. We don’t do hope, we are hope. This need shared in this breakfast seminar are part for hope is further compounded by financial and of a broader research project that ILSE is ecological crises, as well as problems with migration and part of “Hope as an Incentive in Theological and Economic Perspective”. The project is the threat of terrorism. This quest for hope has not carried out in collaboration with the gone unnoticed. In the recent field of positive Erasmus Happiness and Economics psychology and even in economics, hope is becoming an Research Organization, part of Erasmus important topic. It is also an important factor for all our University in Rotterdam. This research project is fully funded by the leadership in society at large as well as in church. Goldschmeding Foundation In all vulnerability, hope trusts someone, even oneself (www.goldschmedingfoundation.org) and God. Hope is, similar to faith and love, a paradox: it empowers us and simultaneously makes us vulnerable. In the risky act of hope, courage and The Institute of Leadership & Social Ethics warmly invites you to a vulnerability merge together. It is as complex and breakfast seminar on ambivalent a concept as we, human beings are. It can be Saturday 19th November analyzed as a multifaceted ‘syndrome’ with all its 8:30am - 10:30am complexities of feelings, modes of perception, thoughts, If you would like to attend the motivational states, activities and judgments. breakfast, please email [email protected], your name and In this short introduction we deal with questions such the number of attendees by the 9th as: What is aspirational hope? What is the difference November 2016. between hope and optimism? Is hope an emotion or a The breakfast program is open to all virtue? Is hope distinctively Christian? We “hope” to at no charge although voluntary have a fruitful discussion on the topic of the contributions towards the cost of these events are always welcome. significance of hope for our society. .