Convened by Diana Woodall at Clementine at 11:15am
Attendees: Diana, Lois, Liz, Lisbeth, Ryan, Gareth, Grant, Pete, Brittany, Aron
Two short videos were shown introducing the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium (normally a 4 to 6-hour event) and explaining the origins of the Pachamama Alliance between indigenous peoples of the Ecuador Amazon rainforest and visionaries from California–and now joined by people from all over the world–
The purpose of the Symposium is:
- To bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our time.
- The Symposium holds that these are not three separate issues, but are all profoundly interconnected aspects of one whole. It’s not possible to make lasting changes in one area, without addressing and impacting the other two.
- One intention of the Symposium is to contribute to generating global conversations that “change the dream of the modern world”—any conversations that encourage the creation of a sustainable, fulfilling, and just human presence on this planet.
- The Symposium is not about just a communication of information, but is intended to be a transformational process—it addresses participants at all levels of their beings – the mental, the emotional, the spiritual, and the physical.
- The Symposium does not prescribe a series of actions, but trusts that the best solutions will emerge out of a groundswell, a cadre of informed, optimistic, possibility-generating people who sustain themselves and each other in “Blessed Unrest.” At the same time, it includes a number of exercises or processes that participants can use to identify their unique contribution to the emergence of a new dream.
(excerpted from a longer piece about the purpose of the symposium, available at www.AwakeningtheDreamer.org)
