Awakening the Dreamer Strengthens the Focus on Communities

February 01, 2011 | By The Pachamama Alliance

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As we mark the turn of the year, the Awakening the Dreamer Program sees changes and opportunities that add up to a whole new and exciting chapter. Through consultation with the community around the world, a new 4-year vision has emerged to take the messages of this program out to the world through an ever-growing number of agents of change.

Each of these people, inspired to make change in the world, will be able to use the tools provided, principally the Symposium, to awaken people in their own sphere of concern. The Program aims to provide community for these people in two ways. First, there will be an online community for people to connect, share and learn across the globe, and an in-person equivalent.

Our presence across the world

There are already community groups all across the world and there are new hubs springing up everywhere. Getting together in person strengthens and nourishes people as agents of change and helps people find partners with whom they can laugh and learn and be in action. This strategy acknowledges that community is the necessary pre-condition for people to be sustainable in action and effective as the awakening message is spread throughout the world.

Community coordination

In order for the program team to adopt this new strategy powerfully, the Awakening the Dreamer Program has hired Gabrielle Sundra, known to many for her exploits as a Symposium Facilitator and community coordinator in Southern California. She joins the team to lead the project to nurture and expand the community worldwide, providing tools and guidance to support self-generating communities to thrive and new communities develop.