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I International Dreams in Action Unconference

Wings for Dreaming, Hands for Doing

BILBAO 11.11.11
November 11, 2011, Sala Multibox EITB, Calle Capuchinos de Basurto 2, Bilbao, 48013, Basque Country, Spain

LUR GOZOA, Platform for Conscious Citizenry and MIRRA, Association for Womans Leadership wish to gather the Citizenry for this Unconference so we may be inspired by the experiences of Dreamers in Action and participate, as well, in a process of Creative Dialog that will focus on two key areas: Education: We speak of education for all ages and in the ample sense of the word - life long education, education for citizen participation, education to learn to learn, and so be prepared, regardless of age, to live in a world other than the one we now live in; we speak of education for a new kind of relationship among ourselves and with Nature Economy: We want to promote the emergence of an economy in which money becomes a means and a consequence rather than an end in itself, an economy that creates wealth, an inclusive economy in which abundance and prosperity for all dont present a threat for a few. An economy that values the caring work so essential for our survival - as a civilization and as inhabitants of Planet Earth...

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TARGET AUDIENCE: The citizenry in general, people who are concerned about the development of THEIR society towards a more inclusive and more sustainable one. People in Government, Business, Education, Associations, Citizen Participation Movements, etc, People who want to discover and/or increase their capacity to dream and to carry out projects for social transformation, People who want to connect with other dreamers for inspiration and support and to generate collaborative networks for promoting transformative actions in their respective fields of activity, People who want to become familiar with and participate in dynamics of Creative Dialog.

Why an Unconference? The premise of the Event encourages the role of the Unconference Attendees as protagonists by way of their active participation in peerto-peer relationships.

PROGRAM

Friday, November 11

8:30 Registration 9:00 Welcome (Lur Gozoa) 9:30 Rosana Agudo The Creation Process that Dreaming Implies - The Art of Living" 10:30 Victoria Hale Newprofit: Social Benefit Companies that are also Profitable" 11:30 Network-Coffee 12:00 Creative Dialog with Unconference Attendees [Direction and coordination: VisionToAction] 13:30 Network-Lunch 15:00 Anandi Bretn Pour Tous: An Experience in Conscious Consumerism -Auroville (India)" 15:30 Irena Ateljevic Jureta Steps of a Dreamer in Transition. Phoenix Arbor: Educating for Tomorrow" 16:00 Halla Tmasdttir Audur Capital: Realizing the Dream of a Better Equilibrium in Business and in Finance" 17:00 Network-Coffee 17:15 Creative Dialog with Unconference Attendees [Direction and coordination: VisionToAction] 19:15 Closure 19:30 End of the Unconference www.dreamsinaction2011.com

DREAMERS EXPERIENCES

Because Social Innovation begins with decisions and actions made at the individual level.

Rosana Agudo

Rosana Agudo, a native of Bilbao, Spain, is an investigator and expert in cultural disciplines and traditions related to the inner development of the human being. As a Vision Coach, she has been accompanying people in the constant development of their vision-based action for the past 19 years. Rosana Agudo is also: Founder of Lur Gozoa Platform for a Conscious Citizenry, www.lurgozoa.blogspot.com, and of Mirra Association for Womans Leadership, www.asociacionmirra.com Founder and Director of the Consultancy TTi Technology for Inner Transformation, www.tti-transformacion.com, created in 2005 to assist people who form organizations in the development of their Vision and in the realization of the Change in Mindset needed for the Knowledge Society; Founder and Director of the recently established VisionToAction International School for Changemakers, www.visiontoaction.com, dedicated to the training and accompaniment of Changemakers, www.visiontoactionschool-english.blogspot.com, and for the creation of and participation in emerging networks worldwide.

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Victoria Hale

Dr. Hale is a pharmaceutical scientist and global health social entrepreneur. Her Dream in Action is the development of new medicines for all humanity, with the specific goal of reducing health inequities. In the year 2000, she founded the Institute for OneWorldHealth, www.oneworldhealth.com the first not-for-profit- pharmaceutical company in the United States and for which she serves as Chair Emeritus. In 2008 she founded Medicines360, www.medicines360.org a new kind of pharmaceutical company, also not-for-profit, that is self sustaining thanks to the sale of its pharma products in developed countries, the profits of which permit their sale, under cost, in economically disadvantaged countries. For Dr. Hale, economic benefit is a means of carrying out her mission, not the principal objective. The Economist named Dr. Hale recipient of its Social and Economic Innovation Award in 2005 and Glamour Magazine named her Woman of the Year in 2007.

Irena Ateljevic Jureta

Dr. Ateljevic Jureta is an aclaimed academic and researcher in the field of sustainable development through community empowerment. She has led the Academy of Hope, an initiative of academics throughout the world who are striving to integrate principles of life long learning into higher education. As a professor at University of Wageningen (Holland), Irena has been recognized by her students in her recent professional activity in the group of Environmental Sciences and has been selected as Best Professor of the Year for two consecutive years. In spite these acknowledgments, Dr. Ateljevic Jureta has recently left her professional post at the University, with the aim of realizing her lifetime dream in her country of origin (Croatia), the project Phoenix Arbor, (www.phoenixarbor.worldpress.com), an inspirational, actiondriven meeting ground for progressive minds and spirits, leaders and emerging changemakers.

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Anandi Bretn

In 1995, Anandi Bretn, originally from Pamplona, moved, to Auroville* India where she established herself permanently. During her 16 years in Auroville, she has been responsible for the following areas and projects: - Secretariat of the Department of Planning and Development Auroville is planned to become a city of 50,000 people following the guiding parameters of ecology, sustainability and multiculturalism. - Management of cooperation projects financed by the Asia-Urbs Program of the European Union, in partnership with the Municipalities of Paris, Venice and Cologne. - Management of the project Pour Tous, www.auroville.org/society/PTDC.htm a distribution center based on an alternative economic system, the objective of which is to provide for the basic alimentary and household necessities of all the residents of Auroville. The project was conceived as a center of investigation for the practice of a more conscious and a more participatory form of consumption. *Auroville, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, was established as an international community in 1968 and is now home to 2000 people of 35 different nationalities. Auroville is a foundation and is endorsed and supported by UNESCO and the Government of India.

Halla Tmasdttir
Halla Tmasdttir (Iceland) is convinced that a more balanced set of values will produce a more sustainable economy and a healthier world. That is why she became co-founder and Chairwoman of Audur Capital, an investment company created in 2007 that is focused on integrating feminine values into finance; the guiding values of Audur Capital, www.audurcaptial.is/english/about-audur are: independence, risk awareness, straight talking, transparency, emotional capital and profit with principles. Halla Tmasdttir is also Chair of Veritas Capital, Icelands main pharmaceutical and healthcare company, and of TAL, a communications company; she sits on the executive board of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and has recently joined the board of Olgerdin, Icelands Pepsi bottler and largest consumer products company. She has been a non-executive board director of a number of organizations including the Icelandic Stock Exchange, and Sjova, Icelands largest insurance company.
Ms. Tmasdttir has been the recipient of many awards, among them the 2008 Women in Business Excellence Award. In 2011, Newsweeks Daily Beast included her in their list of 150 Women who Shake the World.

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REGISTRATION
Registration Fee: 75 Early registration, up to and including October 28: 50
[ Fee includes morning and afternoon Network-Coffees and Network-Lunch ]

Payment
Cash deposit or bank transfer to Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa: 2095 0109 10 9111439769 International transfers: >>> IBAN: ES17 2095 0109 1091 1143 9769 >>> BIC: BASKES2BXXX Account holder: LUR GOZOA Transaction description: First and Last name of Unconference Registrant You must send your name, address, phone number and/or Email to: info@dreamsinaction2011.com or call (+34) 944 441 838 Scholarships Available

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