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CHANGE THE DREAM

The most critical issue, and the greatest opportunity, of our time......and what you can do about it.

Change the Dream is a one-day symposium which was presented, for the first time in the UK at our May, 2006, London conference. Just over 100 people stayed on for the extra day - and were so inspired that 85 of them indicated a desire to train as facilitators in presenting the Symposium!

Since then, over 60 symposiums have been presented around the country. We have completed three trainings for UK facilitators, and a fourth training is planned for September. Meanwhile, events continue to take place across the country, from Brighton to Edinburgh, from London to Bristol, as well as in Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Australia!

Dates are announced below as soon as they are set - and the easiest way to be kept in the picture is to sign up for our newsletter. And let us know if you would like to help us present a symposium in your area. Just drop us a line at info@bethechange.org.uk

What is so compelling about the Symposium is the powerful way in which it brings together the people of any community, school or business around a real commitment to action in their particular community. It's not presenting a slate of policies - but rather opening up, in a unique way, the opportunity for a kind of collective evolution.

According to a majority of the world's experts, there is now overwhelming evidence that our modern society is headed for a catastrophe. Leading scientists are telling us that the impact of our industrial system, and the sudden expansion of humanity's ability to harvest the common bounty of our planet for short-term gain, may actually be upsetting the balance of our highly complex and fragile web of life.

It is as if we are living inside of a dream, sleepwalking toward oblivion, while self-serving, shortsighted interests encourage our slumber with managed news, celebrity culture and other weapons of mass distraction.

It has become clear that our political and commercial institutions are unable to effectively address this crisis, primarily because they don't realize that they are looking at an interconnected world through a fragmented lens. The villain here is not Big Business, the corporate media, the military-industrial complex, or even those who for personal profit seek to clearcut our forests, overfish our oceans, pollute our atmosphere or drain our aquifers. The villain is an outmoded worldview - a way of seeing the world in which such unthinkable acts appear reasonable, sensible, and even intelligent.

Indigenous people of South America who still live in their traditional Earth-honoring ways refer to our modern worldview as our "dream" and have urged us, for the sake of all life, to "change the dream of the North". Well, it appears that changing this collective dream of ours will be a do-it-yourself-together project. 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.

This is one of the generating principles behind the Change the Dream Symposium. The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity's most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected thinkers and doers (Paul Hawken, Desmond Tutu, Julia Butterfly Hill, Brian Swimme and others), along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the very nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and action.

The aim of the Symposium is not merely to learn more about the world, but 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.

If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired and moved to action, if you are ready to be introduced to a thriving community of like-hearted, deeply committed cohorts who are actively engaged in awakening from and changing the dream of our modern industrial culture, we invite you to come to the next Symposium. (And don't forget to sign up for the newsletter.)

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