We just ran a Symposium in India without leaving our San Francisco office!!
This is truly a ground-breaking development because we now know we can deliver the Symposium remotely into any part of the world that connects to the Internet, so opening up huge possibilities for the expansion of the Initiative around the world. Just imagine that any Facilitator could now share the Symposium with their friends and connections in another country, another continent. Just imagine that we could offer an online Symposium every week (every day if need be) to remote participants anywhere in the world. Just imagine the demand this would unleash for Facilitator trainings into communities we had never previously heard of, let alone visited. So today is truly a good news day.
How did all of this happen? Well we’ve been in conversation with Arun Wakhlu in Pune, India for several month now about bringing the Symposium to him and his network (he heard about us from another Facilitator in Hong Kong in a professional business network). We nearly visited Pune and Delhi this month to bring both the Symposium and the Facilitator training to Arun’s contacts, but we decided instead to delay the visit by a couple of months and use the extra time this allows to build up a base of interest by running a Symposium (maybe two) in this new way.
Arun is man of remarkable heart and vision, he already has an initiative emerging in India called Awaken-I, and what an auspicious omen that is. The Awaken-I vision involves awakening the individual to the power and creativity of His/Her Divine Essence, and also to the Gifts and Talents that the person has, and then creating and sustaining a circle of people who share the same values and vision. So a beautiful partnership is beginning to unfold. Namaste Arun.
We set up the Symposium for 16 of his local friends and connections, all in one room in his offices in Pune. They downloaded the powerpoint version of V-2 so it could be projected in the room and enjoyed at that level of quality, I was added in on a skype call and ran most of the facilitation, and found Arun to be a completely aligned partner, he ran all of the in-room, participative elements in the Symposium. The results were fantastic, I could feel the receptivity and excitement amongst the participants and we already have folk signing up to be trained as Facilitators and an invitation to take the work to Bangalore as well (Arun has a very far-reaching network). Then they left to go sleep, I left for breakfast.
Oh, and Pachamama translates very well into Indian culture I’m told, embodied in Shakti, the Great Divine Mother in Hinduism.
For more details or to discuss how to do something similar iin your network, just call or mail.
Jon Symes
