South Africa
The symposium arrived in South Africa earlier this month, carried there by Tracy-Kim, a passionate South African who was recently trained as a Symposium Facilitator in Hong Kong. She said it was clear to her from the first moment she was moved to attend the training that a deeper force was at work - and she had the courage and wisdom to follow its guidance. Three weeks later and 7000 miles away she put on her first Symposium, (with two more in the works) and already well over 100 people have participated. They were deeply moved and inspired into action in similar ways as others around the world. Tracy-Kim is working to build a coalition of interested people, from XL and other networks, who are committed to this vision so that they can take it out more widely. She also intends to create the first Facilitator training in South Africa as well.
Peru
Earlier this year and again last month, Biologist, Mery Gutiérrez Rodríguez, brought the Awakening The Dreamer, Changing The Dream Symposium to Peru. The first event took place at Educational Institution Capitán de Corbeta “Manuel Clavero Muga”, in the Lima district of Ventanilla and over 100 professors and teachers participated. The objective was to bring an environmental awareness to the participants and change attitudes toward how they relate and care for the environment. A goal was to have this material become part of their education curriculum being developed for the year.
Costa Rica’s First Symposium and Facilitator Training
Costa Rica is a country uniquely ready for the message of the Symposium—it is one of the leading countries in the world in advocating environmental preservation, peace, and social justice. So it was appropriate that the Symposium was recently delivered in Costa Rica, followed by a Facilitator Training two days later.
Costa Rica is a country uniquely ready for the message of the Symposium—it is one of the leading countries in the world in advocating environmental preservation, peace, and social justice. So it was appropriate that the Symposium was recently delivered in Costa Rica, followed by a Facilitator Training two days later.
Oddly enough, the Symposium arrived in Costa Rica via Canada. A young Canadian social entrepreneur and author named Andrew Hewitt has established a learning and retreat center, called Brin D’Amor , in the northwest part of Costa Rica, near the city of Liberia. Andrew views this as a study and learning center for the new paradigm that is needed in the world today—the New Dream—particularly for young leaders. When he attended his first Symposium in Calgary, Canada, early this year, he was thrilled to learn that the educational and transformational seminar that he thought he needed to design in order to help create the new paradigm had already been created by Pachamama. So he asked for a Symposium and Facilitator Training at the first gathering of young adult leaders at Brin D’Amor, in late May.
The Symposium was attended by 35 people, and 11 of them asked to be trained to lead the Symposium two days later. Eight of the 11 participants in the training are residents of Costa Rica, and the other three are residents of Canada—so Symposiums will be offered there in both languages. One of the facilitators is a student at a leading environmental university in Costa Rica, and is already moving to incorporate the Symposium into the curriculum at her school.
Andrew is planning for the Symposium to be regular part of the conferences and classes at Brin D’Amor. He envisions the center as a place where “students can evolve to higher states of consciousness, tune into their purpose and be the change they want to see in the world.”
