Theme: What next?

The era of the fourth industrial revolution has just begun. Our children will live in a completely digitalized world. The human society and its organization is changing rapidly, and so is the job market. A large number of current professions will disappear. People will work in areas not even existing today. We’re at a crossroads.
What does all of this mean for our children? What will they need for life in the upcoming civilization? What should children’s upbringing and education look like in order to prepare them for what’s coming?

Divadlo ABC
Vodičkova
Praha, Praha 1, 11000
Czech Republic

Albin Sunmo

Albin Sunmo is a focused young man with a humble mindset. He was born in 2001 in the town of Varberg on the west coast of Sweden. After a couple of years at the Montessori school Lära för livet, he and his family moved to Thailand for five years. After moving back to Sweden and graduating from secondary school after 4 years of "the farm school", he now looks forward to the IB-Program in Mallorca, Spain. He is now aiming at an Ivy league school and a career by which he can help with changing humanity for better.

Jana Nováčková

Jana Nováčková is a psychologist, co-author of the book and series of workshops „To respect and be respected“. She published a book „Myths in Education“ and translated Jana Kovalíková’s publication „Integrated thematic lesson“. She gained experience as a consultant and participated in a psychological research as well as in the international project called „Healthy School“. Since 1990 she has been a lecturer, published various popular and professional articles. At conferences she enjoys presenting the ideas of change for education.

Kathy Minardi

Kathy Minardi is Senior Consultant with Whole School Leadership, founded to help leaders around the world guide socially and emotionally healthy communities of children, families and school staff. Kathy has 40 years of experience as a school leader and holds an executive credential from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. Her areas of expertise include child development and learning, family and organizational systems, emotional intelligence, and methodologies for adult development and community building. Since 1999, Kathy led Aidan Montessori School, one of the oldest Montessori schools in the US located in Washington DC. She is a Margaret Wheatley Warrior for the Human Spirit.

Ondrej Liska

Ondřej Liška is an analyst, author, active citizen, ex-politician. Nowadays a manager of international organization Ashoka in the Czech Republic focused on searching for social entrepreneurs and providing them with support. During 2007-2009 he worked as a Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Czech Republic. Long-time civil activist that cooperates with Czech as well as international NGOs operating in the field of human rights, education and democracy. In his book „The Underground Church“ (2000) he reveals hidden activities of the Catholic Church in communist Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies – policital sciences and religion at Masaryk University.

Peter Gomolák

Peter Gomolák is a founder of online mentoring program „Capable children“. The project provides gypsy children with skills for better future and enables them to make their dreams come true. Currently he works as a full-time coordinator of the project, as a mentor he looks after his mentees Barborka and Agneska. For 12 years he has been devoted to mentoring and social work, since 2014 he’s a team member of nonprofit organization ETP – consulting and educational initiative, former successor of international program Environmental Training Project for the Central and Eastern Europe.

Radka Dohnalová

Founder and managing partner of ATAIRU – international educational organization for leadership development. During her MBA studies at Harvard Business School Radka developed the concept of authentic and integrated leadership. She worked with more than 1000 leaders and 50 organizations in Europe and Japan. She worked for McKinsey & Company and UN World Food Programme. Adult education is her passion and for a long time she has been devoted to the topic on national and international level. She is an active contributor to the discussions focused on the future of education in the age of exponential technologies, for example Abundance 360 - Peter Diamandis‘ international conference. Radka lives in Prague raising three kids with her husband.

Rusa Patrick

Rusa Patrick is 18 years old. For the first 12 years of her life she went to a Montessori school in Scotland. Her family then moved to Sweden so she could attend the adolescent programme there. After four years at „the farm school“ in Sweden she spent one year travelling and collecting amazing experiences in the countries she visited. Currently she is studying at high school in England, and will take her exams in summer of 2018. After high school she intends to volunteer in an orphanage in Ghana, as this is what she has always wanted to do for as long as she can remember.

Steve Hughes

Dr. Steve Hughes is a pediatric neuropsychologist and Director of the Center for Research on Developmental Education, a social business that guides organizations seeking to document the unique, wide-scope outcomes that result from experiential, non-traditional, and growth-oriented programming. Dr. Hughes’s areas of expertise are assessment of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, and is a strong advocate for educational approaches that foster human development. He serves a chair of the Association Montessori Internationale Research Network, and is the coordinator of AMI’s Global Outcomes Project.

Tomáš Čakloš

Tomáš Čakloš is a head of the student organization „Otevřeno“ aimed at innovation of teacher’s education at Faculties of Education. Currently he studies pedagogy and psychology at Masaryk’s University in Brno where in 2015 the student organization „Otevřeno“ was established by him and his classmates. Since 2009 he has been a scout leader of children and adults and that’s how he got to education. Nowadays he specializes in training and education of adult scout leaders, he is a lecturer and works at headquarters of Junák – Czech Scouting as an editor in chief for pedagogical support for scout leaders.