🌍 PROUT Convention 2025
“Stronger Together: How Cooperation Builds a Better Future”
📅 July 18–23, 2025
The much-anticipated Prout Convention 2025 is now open for registration—and we warmly invite you to be part of it!
This year’s theme, “Stronger Together: How Cooperation Builds a Better Future,” highlights the vital role of cooperation in creating a more just, sustainable, and spiritually grounded society.
As our world faces escalating challenges—economic inequality, environmental breakdown, social fragmentation—the Prout framework offers hopeful and practical alternatives rooted in collective empowerment and Neohumanist values.
Throughout the week, we’ll explore how cooperation can transform our food systems, economies, education, care work, and communities—from the local to the global. Through talks, workshops, artistic expression, embodied practice, and deep dialogue, we will experience the strength and joy of coming together to build the future we envision.
This year’s convention will feature a diverse and inspiring group of speakers, practitioners, and artists from around the world—offering insight, tools, and stories of transformation grounded in lived experience.
From cooperative organizing to spiritual futures, from historical critique to creative expression, their contributions will help us deepen our understanding and expand our collective imagination.
Whether you are an organizer, activist, spiritual seeker, student, artist, or simply someone longing for a better way, this gathering is for you.
📍 Come join us in Ananda Gaorii, Denmark, from July 18 to 23 for a week of inspiration, learning, connection, and shared purpose.
🧡 Together, we are stronger—and together, we build the future.
🎙️ Program and Speakers
◉ Aaron Frank (Ananta) – USA
Aaron will explore the historical construction of the “selfishness myth,” a prevailing narrative in Western society that portrays humans as naturally self-interested. This myth underpins the justification for free market capitalism and continues to shape political and economic thought.
The talk will trace the myth’s origins to 17th century Europe, where Indigenous critiques of European society prompted a conservative backlash, influencing thinkers like Hobbes and Smith. These reactions laid the groundwork for many of today’s dominant ideologies. Through a historical lens, this session uncovers how such narratives were cemented into mainstream belief—and what lessons we can draw to create new, cooperative paradigms of human nature.
◉ Randi Jakobsen (Rainjita) – Norway
Randi will present on the Seikatsu Club Consumer Cooperatives, a powerful example of cooperative success. Originating in 1968 with a group of housewives, the Seikatsu model has grown into 33 independent coops with over 420,000 members.
These cooperatives span food production, elder care, childcare, support for the disabled, and renewable energy initiatives—all rooted in ethics, sustainability, and mutual aid rather than profit.
◉ Dr. Ivana Milojević – Serbia/Australia
Ivana will deliver a keynote on feminist futures, drawing from her extensive work across sociology, education, gender studies, peace studies, and future thinking. She will also facilitate a hands-on conflict transformation workshop, where participants will engage with methods to explore and resolve tensions within and between communities.
◉ Dr. Sohail Inayatullah – Pakistan/Australia
Sohail, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, will guide participants through two experiential workshops. The first introduces Causal Layered Analysis (CLA). The second workshop focuses on the Sarkar Game, an interactive experience exploring the social cycle and dynamics of power and leadership through the lens of Proutist theory.
◉ Fernando Aranda – Mexico/Portugal
Fernando leads a hands-on printmaking workshop themed around “cooperation empowers people to decide their own future.” Participants will co-create artwork that will be displayed as a collaborative installation, followed by a reflection circle.
◉ Filipa Costa – Portugal
Filipa introduces Converge – Cooperativa Integral da Cova da Beira, a new initiative supporting local resilience through short supply chains, the arts, housing, self-employment, and education.
🔸 VENUE:
Ananda Gaorii Master Unit (retreat center and organic farm) itself is steadily developing. We have talented young volunteers, we are making good progress in our garden with three new greenhouses and more of our land being used for growing our own crops. The garden will be supplying most of the vegetables for the Prout Convention this year. We have a new roof, additional new rooms and several other renovations in progress.
🔸ACCOMMODATION:
Ananda Gaori has a combination of rooms, dormitories and grassy fields for camping. Most of the rooms have double bunk beds while the dormitories have mattresses on the floor. Participants should bring their own sheets, sleeping bag, etc. Those who need more privacy and peace (and loud snorers) are encouraged to bring their own tent and camp (Note: We will set up some of Ananda Gaorii’s tents and make a limited number available for participants). If you have special needs regarding accomodation, please contact the organizing team or Dada Ambareshvarananda (
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🔸 GETTING THERE:
1. Purchase a ticket from Copenhagen Central Station to Holbæk.
2. From Holbæk, take Bus 560
Destination: Nykøbing Sj. St.
Get off at Herrestrup Terminal (Nykøbingvej).
3. Transfer to Bus 566
Destination: Nykøbing Sj. St.
Get off at Sneglerupvej (Nykøbingvej).
4. Walk about 10-12 minutes to the retreat location:
Ananda Gaorii – Holbækvej 56, 4560 Vig
🚆 Alternative: If you arrive too late in Holbæk to catch the above buses, you can take the train to Vig Station.
Please call or message us 30 minutes before arriving, and we will arrange for someone to pick you up.
📞 24h Taxi also available: +45 59 91 41 41
📝 Registration
Please register for the PROUT Convention HERE:
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https://prout.info/convention-donate/
🔸 Attendance Fees
- Standard price: Euros 280, DKK 2100 (daily price: Euros 65, DKK 500)
- Students, pensioners, unemployed: Euros 215, DKK 1600 (daily price: Euros 50, DKK 350)
- Children: Euros 125, DKK 950 (daily price: Euros 30, DKK 200)
- Portugal, Spain, Greece: Euros 215 (daily price: Euros 50)
- Russia, Romania, Balkans: Euros 180
- Outside of Europe: Economically developed countries get standard price, rest: Euros 160.
You can pay your attendance fee via Bank Transfer, MobilePay or Online with Paypal or Bank Cards. You can also pay by cash on-site.
Mobilepay (Denmark): 7188 1273
Bank Transfer:
Name: Proutist Universal
IBAN: DK4804004025569682
BIC: LOSADKKK
Pay safely online using Credit and Debit cards or Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/J826AA98GHMMC
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