Ideas Zone

A space where we discuss important topics with people we see as authority figures. We inspire you to seek answers for the most important questions – and to meet people who think differently.

TURN 1
11:00–12:30

In the land of black swnas
Edwin Bendyk
E13 / 11:00–12:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
The world we knew ended. But even if we agree with this observation, which invokes less and less doubts, we instinctively hope that the good old days will come back. They won’t. The future has to be imagined, envisioned and created. It is worth to begin with definitions.
Edwin Bendyk – columnist of “Polityka”, author of the blog „Antymatrix”. Creator of the Centre for Studies on Future of the Collegium Civitas.

Perfectionism – silent killer of the soul
William Shaw
E14 / 11:00–12:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
Every creator either struggles with perfectionism or knows someone with that problem. We worry what others might think about us – and the duo of perfectionism and shame is a Polish national specialty. How to change this way of thinking before it strips the world of the best things we can give it?
Wednesday – Perfectionism – who is that demon?
Thursday – Shame – perfectionism’s ugly cousin
Friday – Reluctance – the business card of perfectionism
Saturday – How to (finally) end with perfectionism
William Shaw – systemic psychotherapist, an American living and working in Kraków.

We are great together
Asia & Janusz Żydek
E15 / 11:00–12:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
We all dream of a fulfilled bond with another human – how to create it?
Wednesday – Who needs marriage and what for
Thursday – Can you keep you independence in a relationship?
Friday – Top shelf sex
Saturday – Conflicts – is it the end?
Asia & Janusz Żydek – happily married since 1990, parents of two grown-up children, parents-in-law, marriage and family counselors, authors of the Dobrze Nam Razem (We Are Great Together) project and blog. They give lectures at SAF since 2006 www.dobrzenamrazem.com

Middle East on fire
Marcin Szydzisz & Jarek Jarząbek
E12 / 11:00–12:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
Middle East is a collection of hot spots – we try to understand what they are all about and how this situation influences our life in safe Poland. Is the Islamic State finished? What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict about? Why do Kurds want their own country? What part does Iran play in all of this? If you understand the Middle East better, you look at the world from a completely different perspective.
Marcin Szydzisz – lawyer, historian, political sciences PhD, author of publications on Middle-eastern problems.
Jarek Jarząbek – deals with international relations and security policy of the countries in the Middle East.

Have hope (despite the world shaking)!
Ignacy Dudkiewicz & Misza Tomaszewski
E016 / 11:00-12:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
Wednesday – Ecology for people of all faiths and views. The world is headed towards a climatic catastrophe – can we prevent it? Is alliance above divisions possible?
Thursday – Day, Romero, Wrzesiński. Radicals will change the world? Evangelic radicalism in a fight for justice for all. Can their way be an answer for the problem of great inequalities – also in Poland?
Friday – “I was a stranger and you yook me in” How to create a community with people of other faith, culture, nationality, views or wealth? How much here is influenced by personal attitude and how much – by systemic solutions?
Saturday – What kind of Church canm bring hope? Just look around! There are places where the Catholic Church works in a way we can’t dream of in Poland. Maybe it will?
Ignacy Dudkiewicz & Misza Tomaszewski – editors of the “Kontakt” magazine.

TURN 2
13:00–14:30

Wordl on the crossroads
Marcin Popkiewicz
E13 / 13:00–14:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
For every Pole an equivalent of 100 servants is at work – in a form of fossil fuels. By living more comfortably than the emperors of old, we endanger our children’s future. Humanity is on the collision course with the limited resources of the planet. How did we reach the edge of a catastrophe? Can anything still be done?
Marcin Popkiewicz – physicist, economical-resource-environmental megatrends analyst co-creator of the, naukaoklimacie.pl and ziemianarozdrozu.pl websites

Poverty and entrepeneurship
Allan Bussard
E12 / 13:00–14:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
Where does poverty come from? We know about unfair distribution of wealth and corruption we know the role of migration, climate change and demographics – why is it so hard to eliminate poverty? We feel that charity won’t solve the problem. We will think about the role the entrepreneurship can play in the betterment of the fate of the poorest.
Allan Bussard – Canadian social entrepreneur, creator of the Integra foundation looking for enterprise solutions of the problem of poverty among others in Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Remember, who you are
Dan Hash
E14 / 13:00–14:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
You cannot answer a more important question than this – who you are? What makes you special? What drives you and what keeps you down? The lectures will help you find peace within, with other people and with God.
Wednesday – Emotion, or what is and what is not under your control
Thursday – Anger or what drives you
Friday – Baggage or what to keep on carrying and what to leave behind from your future
Saturday – 10 post-slot life hacks helpful in creating a fuller life.
Dan Hash – American, living in Poland for over 20 years, works with the youth within the Fala Association.

TURN 3
15:00–16:30

Passion, work and cash
Philip Vierling
E15 / 15:00–16:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
They say everyone is good at something. Is self-awareness enough for wise life decisions? Should work be your passion? To what extent is the market estimate of your work an indicator of your value? CEO of one of the largest American companies in medical technology and former dean of the business school at the University of Northwestern will guide us in thinking about shaping a conscious life’s path in light of biblical and common-sense wisdom.
Philip Vierling – business practitioner and thinker, philanthropist, goatkeeper.

Passion, work and cash
They say everyone is good at something. Is self-awareness enough for wise life decisions? Should work be your passion? To what extent is the market estimate of your work an indicator of your value? CEO of one of the largest American companies in medical technology and former dean of the business school at the University of Northwestern will guide us in thinking about shaping a conscious life’s path in light of biblical and common-sense wisdom.
Philip Vierling – business practitioner and thinker, philanthropist, goatkeeper.

Men and their secrets
Bogdan Pszczoła
E14 / 15:00–16:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
Why do we keep secrets? What do we hide? And from whom? A short review of male secrets kept from the everyday sight of those who can take our peaceful sleep away. Fortifications, ditches, safety barrier, sidesteps and key to the vault where we have hidden ourselves. How to survive in the labyrinth of wants, fears, and people full of “surprises”. Feel invited for our open-heart surgery.
Bogdan Pszczoła – columnist, author, coach and lecturer. Director of the Men Development Institute. Author of zyjnamaxa.pl

Dreams and atoms
Jan Masajada
E13 / 15:00–16:30 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
A dream is a fantastic story created for us by the brain when we close our eyes. Atom is a child of down-to-earth science. Do dreams have anything in common with atoms?
Wed: Why do we need all of the sci-fi when there is quantum mechanics
Thu: Living in the world of digits or there is no mercy, there is mathematics
Fri: Do mine eyes deceive me?
Sat: Similarity.
Jan Masajada – lecturer of Fundamental Technological Research Department at Wrocław University of Technology, for years at SAF conducts inspiring considerations on the border of exact sciences and world-view problems.

How to feed your inner revolutionary?
David Pierce
A4 / 15:00–15:45 / Wednesday–Saturday / 10–13.07.
The world zombie system wants to take away your soul. How to escape the chaos and emptiness that the shallow system of the world wants to press into you? How to find sense in the world that tells us there is now sense?
David Pierce – frontman of the band No Longer Music, speaker and creator of the Steiger International organization.