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"Changing the Dream" Symposium
The most critical issue, and the greatest opportunity, of our time
...and what you can do about it
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.
There is always a chance of course, that the experts are wrong, and that human ingenuity will come up with some kind of technological fix that will avert a global disaster. But with a downside risk so overwhelming; the potential cost so great; it is grossly irresponsible to keep doing what we are doing, and not to give this issue the serious attention it deserves.
"Changing the Dream" – a way for you to participate in the way forward
Changing The Dream was presented, for the annual "Be The Change" conference in the UK, on Sunday, May 14, 2006 with tremendous success and impact, and now we are bringing this event to Australia for the first time.
We will be presenting "Changing The Dream" across Australia and in the other countries in Asia Pacific. What is so compelling about the Symposium is the powerful way in which it is designed to bring people together. People of any community (or school or business) around a real commitment to action in their particular community. It's not presenting a slate of pre-determined solutions or policies - but rather opening up, in a unique way, the opportunity for a kind of collective evolution.
Our Existing and Outdated Dream
It is as if we are living inside of a dream of modern industralisation. 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.
What will you learn and do as a Changing the Dream participant?
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 Changing 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, 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.
Call to Action
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 upcoming Symposiums. Join our mailing list now to be kept advised of dates and cities.
Be The Change Ltd is a not for profit organisation dedicated to inspire individuals to take responsibility for our collective global future through positive practical action.
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