Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Japan were buzzing with Awakening the Dreamer activity in June, with a host of Symposiums, facilitator trainings, and special events, opening up a wealth of opportunities. An amazing volunteer team of facilitators organized these visits by Pachamama Alliance staff, to bring the message of environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment to thousands of new people. Included in the schedule were symposiums at the Asia Consciousness Festival in Hong Kong and two major universities. As a result, there are now more than 100 new Awakening the Dreamer facilitators in Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Among the many highlights:
- A 180-person Symposium and then a 47-person facilitator training were held in Malaysia. These events opened up future possibilities with people working in the field of education, and with committed and active young people. The person who organized all this was Matthias Gelber, who won the accolade of the “World’s Greenest Man,” in a worldwide search. He is the founder of Eco Warriors Malaysia, and a trained facilitator for the Awakening The Dreamer Symposium. And, demonstrating a real opportunity for other groups around the world, the crowd had been assembled almost entirely on Facebook. Participants ranged in age from 13 to much older, speaking Malay, Tamil, Hindi, Cantonese, Danish, German, Spanish, Japanese and English.
- A Symposium was delivered to 40 students at Fudan University in Shanghai, a top 5 university that is one of the oldest and most prestigious in China. Feedback was enthusiastic and possibilities now exist for finishing the mandarin translation, making a Chinese youth version, spreading it within Fudan, in other universities and for the students to take it to high school students.
- A “deepening” training was done in Hong Kong, to delve more in-depth into the rich material of the Symposium. A Symposium was held at the Asia Consciousness Festival, drawing an overflow crowd.
- In Japan, a man named Hide Enomoto had been trained as a facilitator two years ago in the United Kingdom. One year ago he returned to Japan and got to work. He was the only person in Japan who had taken a Symposium, and in that year, he organized and led 8 Symposiums, and enrolled a team referred to as The Pachamama Angels. They translated into Japanese the Symposium manual, all printed materials and the video script, created Japanese subtitles, and dubbed Hide’s voice over the narrator. They then enrolled 30 very accomplished people in a facilitator training which was filled to capacity. In the first two weeks after the training, they had put on at least 5 Symposiums, and planned 4 more, including one in Vietnam.
