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This past January, Generation Waking Up, the Luv Amp Project, and members of the Pachamama Alliance community in Los Angeles partnered to host a special GenUp Leadership Training at Esalen in Big Sur, CA. A diverse group of young changemakers, artists, and musicians from L.A., Santa Cruz, and the Bay area gathered for three days to explore how they can individually and collectively play a role in bringing forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world.
A core intention of this training was to empower a group of young people to take leadership in I.AM.LIFE - "a life-affirming, music, arts, and media project emphasizing and fostering the connection of Western youth with Amazonia and its indigenous people ~ expressing the urgency and possibility of taking personal responsibility for life." In the "getting into action" portion of the GenUp training, the I.AM.LIFE project was one of the key conversations, and time was spent beginning to vision and plan a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador where some of these young leaders will interact directly with the indigenous people of the Amazonian rainforest.
In the months ahead, these young leaders and their mentors will be collectively creating the next phase of the I.AM.LIFE project, engaging in research and planning, and collaborating with key organizations like Amazon Watch and The Pachamama Alliance.
The next public event of the project is the I.AM.LIFE "ART4LIFE" event taking place Los Angeles on April 27, 2013. Artists will display and auction their original art, and all proceeds will go to I.AM.LIFE and to support six young people who will be traveling to the Amazon.
To learn more, visit www.luvamp.org/i-am-life
