52 University students and professionals participated in the ATD Symposium during the Responsible Consumption Course at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences in Ecuador) November 15.
The Caminantes facilitator team also met to plan Ecuador Youth Symposiums that would include developing parallel activities to complement full day Symposiums [...]
In late summer 2010, ‘Bus the Change’ will offer the Awakening the Dreamer Youth Symposium and a complementary whole system curriculum to schools and communities throughout the nation. This will include sharing Permaculture design, Nonviolent Communication, Restorative Justice Circles, performance arts, movement, The Principles of Co-creation, nutrition and Joanna Macy’s the Work that Reconnects. Tour facilitators will [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]