{"id":259707,"date":"2024-04-15T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=259707"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:23:35","slug":"praxis-peace-institute-mondragon-seminar-and-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/praxis-peace-institute-mondragon-seminar-and-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Praxis Peace Institute &#8211; Mondragon Seminar and Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Praxis Peace Institute<\/strong>\u00a0offers the most comprehensive 5-day seminar available at the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondrag\u00f3n businesses, a Research &amp; Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondrag\u00f3n University, and much more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><strong>The Ethics and Values of Mondragon and the Basque Culture by Georgia Kelly<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/THE-MONDRAGON-REPORT.pdf\" >https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/THE-MONDRAGON-REPORT.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>REPORT ON THE 2022 MONDRAGON SEMINAR\/TOUR <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>GEORGIA KELLY with CAROL BAKTER, JENNIFER TURPIN, and ERIC ARES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Highlights from the Mondrag\u00f3n Seminar. FREE video link on Praxis YouTube site:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mondrag\u00f3n Panel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OM0nbOaHHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>New seminar dates! \u00a0\u00a0 * \u00a0 OCTOBER 6 &#8211; 12, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"value style-scope ytcp-video-info\"><span class=\"\">Join us for an inspiring week and learn about the largest and most successful consortium of cooperatives in the world. Mondrag\u00f3n has proven that another economic world is possible, and that worker ownership is a practical and ethical alternative to business as usual. We study not only their democratic business practices but also the culture, ethics, and the embodiment of their ten core principles.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Best-selling author,\u00a0<b>Kim Stanley Robinson<\/b>, highlights the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives in his latest book,\u00a0<i class=\"\">The Ministry for the Future<\/i>, as one of the most important models to learn from in changing human relationships, economics, and culture. If you have his book, read Chapter 58 where he waxes laudatory about Mondrag\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">We guarantee that this week will change your life by demonstrating what humanity is capable of achieving \u2014 and, maintaining! \u2014 in peace and solidarity.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">Your sense of\u00a0\u201cthe possible\u201d will be expanded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Praxis Peace Institute has established a special relationship with the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives and is a proud educator of cooperatives and the ethics and values of cooperatives. We believe cooperatives are an excellent example of a sustainable and socially just economic business model for the 21st century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_259713\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259713\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-259713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otalora Educational Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>For Details and Questions: e-mail: georgia@praxispeace.org<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Praxis will organize its eleventh 5-day workshop\/seminar at the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain. The purpose of the seminar is to learn about worker owned businesses from the leading consortium of cooperatives in the world.<\/p>\n<table class=\"con12-chart\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Cooperative Principles <a href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/past_conferences\/images\/WHEEL-IN-ENGLISH-2.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/images\/WHEEL-IN-ENGLISH-2_th.jpg\" alt=\"conf\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/past_conferences\/images\/WHEEL-IN-ENGLISH-2.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click to enlarge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Founded by a Basque Catholic priest, Father Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Arizmendiarrieta, in the 1950s, the cooperatives began with one small worker-owned business. Today, with 103 businesses and nearly 80,000 worker-owners, the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives comprise the largest consortium of worker-owners in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mondrag\u00f3n is a highly successful cooperative model with over 60 years of proven success. They have established research centers, bank and credit unions, a university with several campuses, youth cooperatives, a culinary arts university, and small to large businesses. In June 2007, the Educational Director of the Mondragon Cooperatives, Mikel Lezamiz, spoke at the Praxis Peace Institute conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Due to the interest generated at that conference, we decided to collaborate with Mondragon in offering an in-depth educational opportunity for those who want more information on how to create cooperatives in their businesses and communities, and how to incorporate the ethics that support cooperative ventures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Attend This Seminar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This program is a unique opportunity to learn cooperative models of business organization and to see first hand how they work over a long period of time. It is also an opportunity to experience the values, culture, and ethics that support cooperatives. Social justice, sustainable environmental practices, and empathic relations are the bedrock of this extraordinary network of cooperatives. With a core principle of Social Transformation, Mondrag\u00f3n is an ever-evolving culture and work environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentations include<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The history, culture, and ethics of the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives, Mondrag\u00f3n&#8217;s corporate management and training models, the cooperative incubation center and how it functions in creating and developing new products and services, Research and Development at Mondragon (the largest R &amp; D complex in all of Europe, with 15 separate entities), the role of Laboral Kutxa\u00a0 the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives&#8217; bank and credit union (formerly Caja Laboral), Mondrag\u00f3n&#8217;s projects in developing countries, and Democracy at Mondrag\u00f3n &#8211; how the cooperatives are organized. We will learn about their Social systems and Social Councils, and we will have plenty of time for questions in all sessions. We also spend time with students and faculty at Mondrag\u00f3n University and learn about their TeamAcademy degree programs in Teampreneurship and meet with an American professor who has taught at Mondrag\u00f3n University for more than 25 years and will answer remaining questions at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/event_registration\" title=\"Click here to Register.\" >Click here to Register<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly4.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-259715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits include<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SAIOLAN, an incubation center for new products and services; EROSKI, one of the largest supermarket chains in Spain; Mondrag\u00f3n University, the education center where the cooperative movement began. We will also learn about the TeamAcademy graduate program (cooperative business and teampreneurship) and meet with students and directors of this program. We will visit the Basque Culinary Centre (the newest Mondrag\u00f3n Univeristy campus), a Research &amp; Development center, and the Basque Parliament for a session with the Director of the Basque Department of Coexistence and Human Rights. We will spend a whole day at Mondrag\u00f3n University&#8217;s lovely new campus in Onati (a beautiful medieval town near Mondrag\u00f3n).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excursions\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit and enjoy tapas at the Basque Culinary Center in the beautiful coastal city of San Sebastian. We will have time to visit this lovely city and its Old Town after a tour of the center. We visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (designed by Frank Gehry and built by a Mondrag\u00f3n construction cooperative), and have an excursion to Vitoria, the capital of the Basque Country.<br \/>\n<strong>Accommodations<\/strong> All participants will stay at the Hotel Mondrag\u00f3n for 6 nights. Hotel and daily breakfast and lunch (main meal) will be included in the seminar price. Wireless Internet access is available in all hotel and seminar meeting rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Scholarships\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 We hope to award at least one scholarship, but we cannot guarantee this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Included in Conference Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seminar fee, six nights accommodations at our hotel, daily full breakfast and main meal, all excursions, transfers to and from the Bilbao Airport and our hotel in Mondrag\u00f3n. Airfare not included, but our agent gets great prices and coordinates our travel schedules. Upon registration (with a $800 deposit), you will receive our travel agent&#8217;s contact information. They are scheduling our arrivals and departures as close as possible so that most of us will be able to take our bus to and from airport and hotel. Our travel agent can also handle any additional excursions you wish to make before or after this seminar. If you have your own agent or are using miles, we will give you the time frames for arrival and departure as soon as you pay a deposit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre and Post Seminar Travel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can arrange to meet or travel together before and after the seminar. Madrid and\/or Bilbao are great destinations prior to the seminar, and two nights in Bilbao prior to the seminar is usual for many groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mondrag\u00f3n Report<\/strong> hard copy is available in a spiral bound book for $20. You can order by <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/event_registration\" >Clicking Here<\/a><\/strong>. Or, you can download the free pdf below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_259714\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259714\" class=\"wp-image-259714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-Georgia-Kelly3-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-259714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mondragon, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/assets\/pdf\/THE-MONDRAGON-REPORT.pdf\" >Mondragon Report <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/images\/Carl Davidson\" title=\"Carl Davidson's Blog from Mondragon\" s Complete Blog.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carl Davidson&#8217;s Blog from Mondragon 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/georgia-kelly\/an-alternative-to-cutthro_b_759546.html\" title=\"Georgia Kelly's Huffington Post Article on Mondragon\" >Georgia Kelly&#8217;s Huffington Post Article on Mondragon<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-6348598461397509798\" title=\"Georgia Kelly video on Mondragon\" >Click here for Georgia Kelly video on Mondragon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A minimum deposit of $800 reserves your space. You can also pay more at any time up to the balance due date. We are limited to 20 people. Balances can be paid in increments, but total amount will be due by August 26, 2024. If you are registering after this date, all money is due upon registration. In most cases, we are able to find a roommate if you wish one, but early registrants will have first priority and the best possibility of securing a roommate. For the best experience for all participants and consideration of others, we advise people who snore to not request a roommate. <strong>Note: The prices below are approximate as we are still waiting for the hotel prices after renovation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shared Accommodations &#8211; $3,000 per person<br \/>\nSingle Accommodations\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; $3,500<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/event_registration.php\" title=\"Click here to Register\" >Click here to Register!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cancellation Policy for 2024<br \/>\n<\/strong>Full Refund up to June 10, 2024.<br \/>\n70% Refund between June 11 and July 10, 2024.<br \/>\n50% Refund between July 11 and August 15, 2024.<br \/>\nNo Refund &#8211; from July 16, 2024.<br \/>\nAll refunds include a $100 processing fee if paid by check or $150 if paid with credit card. For $800 Deposits, a $50 processing fee is subtracted from refunds. Group payments will be handled separately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-259717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mondragon-Praxis-Peace-Institute-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Georgia-Kelly.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-259762 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Georgia-Kelly-e1713143255172.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Georgia Kelly is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, founder and director of Praxis Peace Institute, a non-profit peace education organization located in Sonoma, CA. She has led 12 seminar\/tours to the Mondrago\u0301n Cooperatives in Spain, with the next one scheduled for October 6 \u2013 12, 2024. She has also organized several multi-day conferences on peace, environmental sustainability, and civic participation that have taken place in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to her work with Praxis, she was a professional harpist, composer, and recording artist. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/praxispeace.org\/mondragon.php\" >Go to Original &#8211; praxispeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praxis Peace Institute\u00a0offers a 5-day seminar at the Mondrag\u00f3n Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondrag\u00f3n businesses, a Research &#038; Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondrag\u00f3n University, and much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":259716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[247,3270],"class_list":["post-259707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-cooperatives","tag-praxis-peace-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309070,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707\/revisions\/309070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}