From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Music and Youth Mix the Awakening! – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

by joshua on November 17, 2009

Brody Mudryk, Tem Hutchinson and Brandon Richards from the band Conscience based in Vancouver, created a brilliantly powerful song, Can’t Fade Away.  It covers our planet’s predicaments with solutions that make you dance & shouting in joy! The three (ages 19 to 21) were encouraged to make Symposium music by facilitator Rabia Wilcox of Ottawa.   Tem participated in the recent Toronto Youth/Mentor ATD Program, sharing the magic with Brody and Brandon.  The “Wombat”, Van Jones passion, and surfing the ATD website inspired their dream & song.
Contact: Rabia Wilcox rabiawilcox(at)hotmail.com (she’ll soon have the links to share)

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George ‘Green’ Day at George Brown College; Greening a Campus -Toronto, Ontario, Canada

by joshua on November 17, 2009

Kathy & Leslie Mezei and Janet Laughton Mackay partnered with staff and students to deliver a full day symposium Oct. 27th to 80+ students and staff at George Brown College – one of Canada’s largest city colleges – on George ‘Green’ Day.  Included throughout were a series of punchy, 5-minute ‘Green Spot’ presentations by students and staff describing their ‘green the college’ actions.  College organizers are very intentional on ‘greening’ and embedding social justice into both the physical plant and the full curriculum.  They were greatly pleased with the successful event and major ‘kick off’ for launching the college into a ‘green’ vector , and requested the Symposium be an annual event.  Contact: Leslie Mezei leslie(at)barberry.ca

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Community Going Co-Conscious – Santa Cruz, California

by joshua November 17, 2009

The Inner Light Center community organized a series of Go-Conscious events for the greater Santa Cruz community. Two Awakening the Dreamer Symposiums anchored the program on November 7th. Nearly 100 came to the regular Symposium which was accompanied by a special Youth Symposium for participants ages 12 to 17. Youth participating in the adult symposium [...]

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California Student Sustainability Coalition Convergence – Santa Cruz, California

by joshua November 17, 2009

The CSSC Convergence opened with 60 student leaders participating in a Symposium on November 6th.  Over 300 student sustainability leaders came together for training workshops, planning, and to hear speakers from 50 California campuses.  Some of CSSC’s leadership is exploring the Symposium as a potential tool for organizers to mobilize their peers back on campus [...]

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Generation Waking Up: Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream

by joshua November 17, 2009

An intergenerational team of five facilitators hosted a Symposium at SUNY-New Paltz on November 7th in New Paltz, New York. Organized by the NYPIRG student organization on campus, fifty students participated in the three-hour concentrated Symposium that was adapted from the Power Shift version with a special Generation Waking Up flavor. NYPIRG plans to host [...]

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Joanna Macy Intergenerational Intensive – Ojai, California

by joshua November 17, 2009

An intergenerational group of 55 people gathered at the Ojai Foundation to experience The Work That Reconnects from October 29th thru November 4th.  Fifteen ATD facilitators, many with a deep passion for and connection with the ATD Youth Initiative, explored how Joanna’s work can be more widely integrated into short and long versions of the [...]

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Power Shift Canada Awakens—Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

by joshua November 17, 2009

The Awakening the Dreamer Symposium was embedded into Canada’s first national Power Shift climate change mobilization on October 25th. The mobilization brought together 1,500 youth (ages 14-30), creating the largest gathering for environmental causes in the history of Canada. 10% of the Power Shift attendees participated in the Symposium, many wanting to either host a [...]

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Boy Scout Venturing Crew 202 Delievers Symposium – Westminster, Maryland

by joshua November 17, 2009

As part of 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action, October 24th, the youth of Boy Scout Venturing Crew 202 hosted and presented a Symposium at Carroll Community College with 70 participants from the surrounding community. Participants noted that the message “will hit home” when mainstream organizations such as Boy Scouts convey the interconnections between social, [...]

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Youth Symposium at LA Justice Center – Los Angeles, California

by joshua November 17, 2009

The October 17 Youth Symposium at Chuco’s Justice Center attracted a cross-pollination of generations. Participating adults were from the Youth Justice Coalition, Critical Resistance, LA Poverty Department, and Skid Row and vegan activist groups.   Following the Symposium, the youth oriented group expressed the goal of bringing greater attention to the ecological opportunities at Chuco’s Justice [...]

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The Symposium Empowers Mexican Students – Mexico City, Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Mexico

by joshua November 17, 2009

In September and October, Fernando Ausin and a dynamic support network brought Symposiums to 116 participants in two locations: Mexico City, the University of Aguascalientes for the Renewable Energy Summit, and the American School of Guadalajara. Billed as a renewable energy workshop at the Renewable Energy Summit, the predominantly engineering and hard science students were [...]

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