The Awakening The Dreamer Initiative

The "Dream of the North," or, the Dream of the Modern World, is our culture of consumption and acquisition, where our latest purchases devastate the land and exploit the less-privileged, where our waste poisons the rivers and skies, where injustice, warfare and terror are systematized by corporations, sanctioned by our elected officials and then taken by us to be normal.

The invitation to The Pachamama Alliance from our South American allies was clear: if we really want to help them, we needed to go to work in our part of the world. But how do we change the Dream of the Modern World? How do we shift an entire worldview? Big questions for sure... It will be accomplished by committed individuals working in concert with one another, tens of millions of us, each willing to think and act in a whole new way.

The Pachamama Alliance's response to the request from the Achuar is the Awakening the Dreamer Initiative, which aims to wake people up from the destructive dream in which we are currently devouring the planet, and to inspire us then to step consciously into a new dream, the pursuit of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this Earth.

Right now, the principal focus of our energy is the Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium, a half-day workshop designed to awaken and inspire people to take action in pursuit of this vision of a fair, peaceful and sustainable future.

The aim of the Symposium is to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it, and with what each of us can do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in this new direction.