SYMPOSIUM

FACT SHEET
A GUIDE TO SPEAK
ABOUT THE AWAKENING
THE DREAMER
SYMPOSIUM
July 22, 2014


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What is the Symposium?
The Awakening the Dreamer Symposium is a dynamic multimedia workshop that
uses videos, personal reflection, and group activities to engage people everywhere
as the co-creators of an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually
fulfilling world.
This unique transformative learning experience interweaves indigenous wisdom
and modern knowledge, reflecting its origin in the partnership between The
Pachamama Alliance, a US based nonprofit, and the indigenous Achuar people of
Ecuadors Amazon rainforest.
The Symposium is available as a live event, and as a digital DVD experience. Live
events are delivered in homes, workplaces, and community centers in more than
70 countries around the world by a network of 3,500+ volunteer Facilitators.
Altogether, this network has brought the core Symposium conversation of what is at
stake for humanity and what is possible at this historic moment to at least 150,000
people globally, with more joining in every day.
What Topics Does the Symposium Cover?
The Symposium takes participants through four key questions to reveal how our
modern worldview and economic and political systems are preventing us from
creating the world in which we want to live:
Where are we? A snapshot of the current state of our world, using data and
insights from a wide range of experts.
How did we get here? An exploration of the root causes behind our current
social and environmental crises.
What is possible now? Examples of widespread social change
movements from history and the present.
Where do we go from here? Tools and next steps for you a conscious
and committed person co-creating our future.
The through-line between these four explorations is the interrelationship between
environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Using this
systemic lens, and with help from global leaders such as Joanna Macy, Van Jones,
Paul Hawken, and Wangari Maathai, the Symposium looks at everything from peak
oil and climate change to social justice and racism.
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What Can the Symposium Do for You Personally?
As they take in the videos and engage in the exercises, Symposium participants:
Begin to understand the issues facing humankind and how they are
integrally connected.
Reveal the unexamined assumptions holding our current systems in place.
Appreciate the extraordinary possibilities emerging at this time in history.
See a role they can play in turning things around.
Feel a renewed sense of hope, inspiration, and empowerment.
At a time when I felt only despair about the conditions I saw in the world, the
Symposium provided me with a new way of seeing things, with hope and with
inspiration. It neatly organized all the things I cared about most into three easily
manageable categories, and gave me a framework and language for
communicating my concerns and for understanding what I could do to make a
difference. - Symposium Participant, Pennsylvania, USA
Visit www.pachamama.org to learn how the Symposium can foster your personal
growth as a leader, including resources and trainings for you to learn to deliver the
Symposium in your own community.
What Can the Symposium Do for Your Community or
Organization?
The Symposium can be a powerful tool that complements the mission or goals of a
wide range of organizations or communities. Weve been thrilled to work with
organizations and networks as diverse as United Nations Development Program,
Sisters of Mercy, a major defense contract, Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University
and the International Coaching Federation.
Among the possible benefits for your community or organization:
Engage your stakeholders or staff with a unique experience
Use the Symposium message as an inspiring context for your work
Generate creative ideas or solutions that can further organizational goals
Bring the Symposium to your community or organization and inspire a timely,
creative conversation about whats possible for our future.
The Pachamama Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. Its mission is to empower
indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that
work, to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.
Learn more at pachamama.org
Pachamama Alliance
Presidio Bldg #1009, 2nd Floor P.O. Box 29191 San Francisco, CA 94129 +1 415 561 4522
For even more details on the Symposium and The Pachamama Alliance, please
visit www.pachamama.org.
Ready to plan your event? To get started today, contact (Name) at (email) or
(phone).
(Note: If its not appropriate for you to be the contact person, please feel free to use
Contact support@pachamama.org or call 415 561 4522 to get started today.)