Facilitator Training Notebook for Participants

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NOTEBOOK

FORPARTICIPANTSFACILITATOR TRAININGS

July 26, 2012


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Facilitator Training Notebook

Index

Facilitator Training Agenda 3

Purpose & Intended Results of the Facilitator Training 5

Purpose & Intended Results of the Symposium 8

Intentions of the Sections of the Symposium 9

Notes to Ourselves in Designing the Symposium 11

Your Next Steps & Resources to Support You 18

Accessing the Facilitators Hub 22

Poems and Quotations 23


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Facilitator Training Program Agenda:

Day 1

I. Welcome and Coming Present

Welcome, Overview

Open Sacred Space

Introductions

Getting Ready

BREAK

II. The Context and Being of our Work As Facilitators

Background of The Pachamama Alliance and the Symposium

The Context for Our Work

P & IR for This Training

Discussion: What Moved You From Your Symposium?

P & IR for Symposium

LUNCH

Discussion: Notes To Ourselves In Designing the Symposium

III. The Symposium and Presenters Manual

Exercise: Intentions of the Sections in Your Own Words

Orientation to the Presenters Manual

Walk-through of the Manual (BREAK in middle of Walk-through)


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DINNER

EVENING SESSION:

Going Deeper with Social Justice

Relational Presence

Day 2

IV. Making it Happen!

Opening

Creating & Holding the Space

Presentations of Sections of the Symposium

BREAK

Next Steps & Resources to Support You

Completing Your Training

Finding Your Group Name

LUNCH

Meeting in Regional/Community Groups to Plan Next Steps

Conversations about the Symposium

V. Completion Ceremony


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Purpose and Intended Results of the

Facilitator Training

Purpose

To support participants in expressing their commitment to bringing forth an

environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence

on the planet by enabling them to become committed, effective agents of change in

the world, generating and presenting the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the

Dream Symposium.

Intended ResultsIn the area of our spirit and grounding, we:

Are immersed in the spirit, ground of being, content, and flow of the

Symposium, so that our communicating about it and delivering it is a

powerful expression of that which inspired and inspires it.

Are committed to living lives consistent with the spirit of the Symposium,

engaged at a constantly deepening level with what it means to live a life

of blessed unrest.

Recognize ourselves as leaders, agents of change who are making the

purpose of the Symposium the guiding principle in our communities.

Experience that who we are, and the depth of our commitment, is

deeply seen and recognized.

Are familiar with, and aligned with, the work and mission of The

Pachamama Alliance.

Are open to information and guidance from the natural world and have

an appreciation of indigenous spirit practices and wisdom.


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In the area of our understanding, we:

Are familiar with the purpose and intended results of the Symposium,

and can recreate for ourselves the flow of the Symposium, including

each section and the transitions between sections.

Have immersed ourselves in, and deepened our understanding of, the

material and flow of the Symposium and its principle distinctions, with

particular emphasis on social justice, so that we are able to author and

embody it for ourselves.

Are familiar with the intentions and material content of each section of

the Symposium and can see how each element in that section

contributes to the intentions.

Have a sense of what it takes to make successful and impactful

Symposiums happen, and the key roles involved: host, producer, and

presenter.

Understand the distinction that the Symposium and the Awakening the

Dreamer initiative have to play in the larger, emergent movement.

Are clear that effective, elegant production of the Symposium provides

the foundation for the participants to experience a profound shift in their

relationship to their world and are empowered to facilitate the

Symposium in a way that supports this shift to happen.

Are knowledgeable about and are committed to accurate informationand record keeping.

In the area of our actions, we:

Have actively participated in, and contributed to, the Facilitator Training,

being responsible for our own training and supporting the training of

others.

Have become a vibrant and potent team of Awakening the Dreamer,

Changing the Dream Symposium Facilitators, part of the larger

Facilitator Body, responsible for our own ongoing training and

development.


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Recognize a clear role for ourselves in making Symposiums happen,

and are sufficiently informed, enabled and empowered so that we can

actively fulfill our chosen role(s).

Have identified a team or have a clear plan for bringing together a team

for making Symposiums happen in our communities, as an expression

of our commitment to expand the reach and impact of the Symposium in

our communities and beyond.

Have formulated plans for generating, producing and presenting our first

Symposiums.

Ground of Being for the Training:

We are honored and humbled to be called to do this work at this pivotal time in

history.

The training itself is held in a space of blessed unrest.

The training is also held in a context of joy, acknowledgement, discovery,

commitment, possibilityand an invigorating call to action.


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Purpose and Intended Results of the

Symposium

Purpose

To provide an experience that inspires participants to stand for a new possibility for

the future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just

human presence on this planet, as the guiding principle of our time.

Intended Results Participants are profoundly aware of the scope, complexity and urgency of

the issues facing our planet today.

Participants are aware of the worldview that people in the modern world

have inherited and its role in bringing us to where we are today, and begin

to free themselves from the constraints of the unconscious, unexamined

assumptions that they have internalized.

Participants experience the future not as predictable or inevitable, but as

creatable; and experience that they make a difference in how the future of

the planet unfolds.

Participants experience themselves as integral members of an already

emerging and expanding community that is committed to bringing forth a

sustainable, fulfilling, and just human presence on the planet.

Participants see a vital role for themselves that inspires them and calls them

into action, and experience being empowered in expressing and fulfilling

that role.

Participants commit to staying awake in a state of blessed unrest and to

including communicating about the issues raised in the Symposium as part

of their lifes work.


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Note:

The Awakening the Dreamer Symposium has been inspired by indigenous people

of the Amazon rainforest whose profound connection with the natural world may

account for the dignity of being with which they walk upon the Earth. Thus shaped,

the Symposium calls into question long held assumptions about the purpose and

possibility of the human species and offers a vision of human beings true

relationship to, and responsibility for, one another and the quality of the future of life

on planet Earth.

Intentions of the Sections of the

Symposium

Overall Purpose

To provide an experience that inspires participants to stand for an entirely new

possibility for the futurean environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and

socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our time.

Introduction/Welcome

To have participants feel they are in a safe and welcoming placeone that has

been generated by a call from indigenous peopleand for them to anticipate with

excitement the journey ahead.

I. Where Are We?

To have participants face as a group and let in the urgency and scope of the

current global environmental, social, and spiritual crises; to understand them as

totally interconnected facets of one crisis, not as three separate issues; and to have

a beginning understanding of the systems and structures that keep the current

dream of the modern world in place.


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II. How Did We Get Here?

To have participants distinguish and awaken from the trance that we have

inherited and are caught in as individuals and as a society; for them to see the

causal relationship between the trance and the dream of the modern world; and to

empower them to continue to identify for themselves the unconscious, unexaminedassumptions that perpetuate the trance. For participants to recognize that a new

way of seeing the worldas profoundly interconnectedis emerging in our culture,

one that is consistent both with modern science and with the understanding of the

world that indigenous people have always had.

III. Whats Possible Now?

For participants to experience the future not as predictable or inevitable, but as

creatable and that they make a difference in how the future of the planet unfolds;

and for participants to be uplifted, energized and inspired into action by seeing that

a huge, un-named, unstoppable groundswell of committed energy and activity is

emerging around the world as a new expression of civil society.

IV Where Do We Go From Here?

Recognizing the critical role of community in creating a new future, for participants

to have an opportunity to express both their longing and their stand for creating an

environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence

on the planet; for them to identify for themselves, and commit to, sustainable

actions, practices, and ways of being which are consistent with their vision and

stand; for them to be inspired to actively communicate about the urgency and

opportunity of our time with the people, organizations and institutions in their lives;

and for them to have a commitment to stay engaged with the issues raised in the

Symposium as part of their lifes work.

Close

For participants to be in an abiding state of blessed unrest, standing powerfully as

change agents in a place of possibility, creativity, communityand action.


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Notes to Ourselves in Designing the

Symposium

1. Rememberthe Symposium is an offer, not a request. Offer every bit as:

Consider this. Leave it in the room when you leave if you wish. We just ask

that you consider it for the day.

2. Wisdom, expertise and experience exist in the participants. We need to be

respectful and honor that.

3. People cannot be with the challenging information if they dont think there is

something they can do about the situation. There has to be a possibility

where people can stand responsibly before they are able to let in and

confront the facts.

4. Our work is to address the unexamined assumptions, not come up with

solutions that are merely more, different or better.

5. We dont live in the world, we live in the storywe tell ourselves about the

world.

6. In the Symposium we emphasize questions and inquiries rather than

answers and solutions. (An answer seeks to dissolve the question, a

response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question and seeks to

remain in connection with it.)

7. There are many different points (not just one or two) in the Symposium that

people identify as the absolute key. We cant know which places are the

ones that are going to do it for anybody.

8. We must not glorify the indigenous and vilify the modern: what is unique

about the Pachamama Alliance is the reunion, the integration of the best of

both that we are standing for.

9. Invite people to join a dialogue and make their own choices rather than

expect to be given a package that is all neatly wrapped up. This is a

process, not a product.


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10. E We cannot merely talk at people during the hours of the Symposium;

there are many creative modalities we will want and need to employ such

as: video, music, guided meditation, journaling, activities and exercises,

eyes-closed processes, paired sharing, group sharing, small group

discussion groups, poetry, and so forth. Be aware of when the energy inthe room is getting heavy or locked and shift it by switching to another

modality.

11. We need to be careful to not try to wait for the perfect Symposium, but to

settle for a good version, with a mechanism built in for always gathering

input and refining it.

12. Playing it safe and not stepping on peoples toes is not our primary concern:

we mean to sound the alarm because the situation is dire.

13. When people see real possibility, that leads to responsibility and the ability

to act. We do not need to convincepeople of anything.

14. Have people see the world and themselves differently so that we dont need

to prop them up or keep them motivatedhave them become self-

generating.

15. Other organizations are doing a terrific job in many areas. We acknowledge

and dont want or need to duplicate their excellent work. We aim to provide

people a place to stand that encompasses it all, from which participants can

experience the power of being part of an aligned community.

16. This Symposium is not meant to be a discourse or debate on the

technological, economic, political and social problems facing the planet, and

their potential solutions (or lack thereof); its about creating an

environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human

presence on this planet.

17. The Symposium is not the words on the page of the manual. Its a place to

come fromand, there is content to deliver. Present as much as possible in

your own words, allowing the words you speak to emerge from your own

heart and inner spirit.

18. People are passionate, frightened, strident about what they believe is the

problem/solution. Have space and compassion for all points of view. Have

people feel deeply seen and heardand do not go down the route of

debate or trying to defend. Allow people to be exactly where they are.


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19. Be on the lookout for articles, statistics and new examples of the Emerging

Dream, and have them at the ready to insert into the Symposium to keep it

fresh and current.

20. Do not be heavy or significant or righteous in presenting the material; come

from a sort of grounded lightness.

21. Whatever you do, dont shortchange the Where Do We Go From Here? and

Getting into Action sections.

22. Do not be apologetic about time; dont share your problem about fitting

everything in. Do not rush. Come from, and communicate, that we will have

just the right amount of time. Demonstrate spaciousness tempered with

committed efficiency.

23. Allow indigenous wisdom/shamanic insights into your own understanding,

more and more. People may have resistance to the ideaof it; however wedont have to name it in order to be able to use it in the Symposium.

24. Keep in mind the piety of poetry: poetry allows for an experience of the

transcendental in a way that straight prose does not. Feel free to introduce

poems that seem appropriate.

25. Whenever possible, work with a co-presenter and team. It works better that

way, and it demonstrates the whole message of interdependence that the

Symposium is about.

26. Dont have your attention so on the manual and screen that you lose trackof where the participants are. Keep looking out into the audience to gauge

where they are so that you can make comments and adjustments as

appropriate. (26)

27. Never use bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling,

socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our

time as a glib phrase that rolls off the tongue: create the possibility each

and every time it is uttered.

28. Reading the manual is almost never preferable to generating it. The

Presenters job is to illuminatethe messages of the Symposium; to bring lifeand light to the words on the page. We need to be familiar with the manual,

but facile enough to have the messages come authentically from our own

hearts.


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29. How do we Change a Dream?

Have it become an idea whose time has come?

How do we make something an idea whose time has come?

Have a vision; try everything; never give up. Let others and yourself know you are

not going away. Where to begin?

Engage. Have Conversations. Work in, and build, community. Develop personal

practices. Live in a state of blessed unrest. Recognize yourself as a force of

nature.

30. Our goal is for people to leave the Symposium seeing themselves as

change agents in enduring state of Blessed Unrest. The Symposium is not

meant to be a one-time experience, but a tool to support them in what it is

they are committed to making happen in their community and in the world.

Paul Hawken input, June 2006

31. What participants most want from the Presenter is for him or her to show

up, to be a loving, committed person helping to create a dialogue that

brings everyone together.

32. If you put whats good in the world in the context of whats wrong, thats a

recipe for despair. If you put the bad in the context of the good, there is

always a way to hold it, no matter how terrifying it is.

33. People are willing to go through a dark night of the soul in the Symposium if

they can see there is a way out (i.e., a robust display of solutions).

34. Pessimism is now fashionable. It may be true, but its not helpful. Theres no

time to be right; we need to be at work.

35. Light or wry humor, if done respectfully, illustrates that you have been there

and back.


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Van Jones presentation at the Global Gathering, June 2007

36. What its going to take to turn this thing aroundthe politics of inclusion, of

solidarity, of love, of empathyits not optional; its the only way we are

going to survive.

37. Once you understand how much programming has gone into getting you to

see the world the way you do, you have a much more realistic sense of the

process of unwinding it.

38. Your passion for solving the worlds problems is going to bring you, if it

hasnt already, up against yourself. And that will be the deepest well for you

to tap, in being able to move other people.

39. The first step (re: social justice) should be to listen and learn. Just go and

listen and learn.

40. We are running out of time: grow your comfort zone!

Bill Twist, CEO The Pachamama Alliance, May 2008

41. In the Symposium, tell them youre going to tell them; tell them; then tell

them that youve told them (re: promise they will be left in a state of blessed

unrest, empowered to communicate to others).

42. Whats needed is an informed, optimistic, generating people who have a

commitment and who have a stake in creating a future. Thats all weretrying to do. Why we are doing this is based on the premise that a key

component that needs to be brought in place for a new future, and a

renewed sense of our own humanity is to create a cadre, a movement of

awake, informed possibility-generating people.

43. Were not trying to tell people what to do; let other organizations do that. We

want people to come out of the Symposium seeing a new possibility for the

future and realizing, I have the force of the universe behind meand yet at

the same time I am trapped in a way of thinking that doesnt serve me any

longer.

44. You dont have to be zealot. Be a communicator. Look for opportunities to

communicate so your voice can alwaysbe counted on to make a

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yourself to always communicate the urgency/possibility whenever youre in

a conversation that seems to be off.

Notes to ourselves on Blessed Unrest

Conversations from Ecuador with Bill Twist, May 2008

45. Our work is to create a cadre, movement of awake, committed, engaged

people. We describe the state they are in with the words Blessed Unrest.

46. Blessed Unrest is a state of agitation from which creation can flow. Its the

state you are in when your dreams start responding to your unconscious.

Its not a passive state. Its the state through which creation can flow. There

is an immediacy to blessed unrest. Its a state in which you are in resonance

with what wants to speak through you or use you. You are tuned to what

wants to move in the world, you are an instrument. Its a state where your

vibrational frequency is such that your connection to it all makes it possible

that something can work through you.

47. Our work is to contribute to the creation a global movement of awake

people who are informed, optimistic, able to see and create a possibility for

the future and are committed to taking action regarding that and who know

that they are significant as an individual, but more important that this is part

of a some divine [expression]; part of some global movement that is

happening.

48. Its not that we give people tools and they can now be effective. That ignores

that its part of this great unfolding. We human beings are not doing it

ourselves; theres this force that set the stars in motionand it is still in

place, working through you. Its not just connect enough people and the job

is done, rather, we need to be aware that there is something larger that is

happening that we can participate with.


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49. Be careful to not make it too personal. Its not about you. This is not

something we are doing ourselves. This is about being part of something

that, as it grows, will make the difference. Its not that youneed to come up

with the answers, with the solutions. Rather, youre part of something and in

the building of it, something unpredictable will be created.

50. Re: spiritual fulfillment in this work: For us, spiritual fulfillment has to do with

being in a state where you recognize that there is a force working through

us. Its not about, I need to be fulfilled. Its about knowing that you are part

of something, that you are a reflection, a hologram of the larger whole. That

is spiritual fulfillmentwhen you know you are part of the greater whole.

51. People think blessed unrest means youre supposed to feel good andblessed. B.U. is not about feeling good all the time. Its not necessarily fun.

52. Just being committed is inadequate. Blessed Unrest is a state where

people are committedand at work. (And its good to keep in mind that

there also may not be any evidence that its working during our lifetimes).


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Your Next Steps & Resources

Taking the following steps will have you in action as quickly as possible. Note, thesteps are not sequentialyou can work on all four simultaneously. Our best advice

for you is dont wait! Jump in now, so you can see how much there is to support

you and get into action easily.

Step 1. Schedule your living room Symposium and make it

happen!

Decide on a venue and time.

If possible, invite at least one co-leader and one production person, and

maybe your mentor.

Invite the participants. It can be just a few friends or family membersmake

it easy.

Schedule practice sessions with your co-leader, dividing the sections.

Use the resources listed below to help you have a fabulously successful

living room Symposium.

Step 2. Connect with people who can support you

Connect with your training group: use your Training Group Roster(and

maybe ask someone to be buddies to offer mutual support)

Contact your mentor. (Youll receive his/her name and contact information

from the training host within a week of your trainingand if you dont, call

the training host.)

Connect with an Awakening the Dreamer Community Group. Download the

Roster of Community Group Leaders from the Facilitator Network home

page.


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Volunteer to be on the production team for an existing Symposium (through

any of the above people).

Volunteer to be on the production team for an existing Symposium through

your Awakening the Dreamer Community Group.

If you dont live near an existing Awakening the Dreamer Community Group,

you can invite several of the people from your living room Symposium to be

on a team with you to put on Symposiums locally. If they want to present,

they can download the Symposium Presenters Kit in the Facilitators

resource section of the Pachamama Alliance website.

Orient them on how to use it and Presto! Now you have an Awakening the

Dreamer Community Group!

Step 3. Explore thewealthof Online Resources to Support You as

a Facilitator:

1. The Facilitators Section of The Pachamama Alliance website:

http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators

The Transformative Workshops section of the Pachamama site has lots

of useful information about the Symposium and other Workshops. The

Facilitator Resources hub, accessible through a button in the upper

right corner of the home page

(http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators/login) will be a particularly useful

area for you. You will need to create a login, after which you can:

a. Download Symposium video assets and handouts for free

b. Create and manage your own events on the Map

c. Download a host of manuals, handouts and guides to deliver

Transformative Workshops

d. Browse Facilitator FAQs about DVDs, the store and logging in


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e. Instantly access the online Facilitator Network to connect with others

f. See our online store

g. See the latest news for Facilitators instantly

2. Event Map: http://www.pachamama.org/workshops/search/

The Event Map is the place to post your events so that members of the public can

find them. To create a profile, manage and update your various events, simply log

in to the Facilitators section of the website (as listed above). Here, you can view

and download lists of attendees for your events, and contact them through the map.

3. Newsletter: www.pachamama.org/facilitators

Sign up to the quarterly Facilitator Newsletter for new tools, tips and the latest news

when you register for the Facilitators section. If youve already registered and

receiving it, get in touch: [email protected]. For all other Pachamama

Alliance updates, make sure youre signed up to the monthly New Moon newsletter

here: http://www.pachamama.org/get-involved/receive-our-email-updates

4. Online Store: http://atlasbooks.com/marktplc/03213.htm

Here you can purchase supplies for your Symposiums, such as

Ecuadorian bracelets and Symposium video assets. Alternatively, you

can also find the link to the store in the Facilitator Resources section of

the Pachamama website

Other Resources outside the Facilitators Hub:

5. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PachamamaAlliance

Post your events, news and ideas about the Awakening the Dreamer

Symposium. Use it as a tool to reach out to the entire network of anyone

who is a fan of this work.

6. Twitter: http://twitter.com/PachamamaOrg

Follow us on Twitter for all the latest, or tweet @PachamamaOrg to get

our attention!


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7. Wiki: http://wiki.awakeningthedreamer.org/w/page/13370150/FrontPage

The Wiki is an archive of Awakening the Dreamer program materials

and those adapted by various communities. Most of these materials are

being transitioned over into the Facilitators section of the Awakening the

Dreamer website, but explore the Wiki if you are looking for V2 or older

versions of the Symposium, promotional materials or translations.

8. Global Facilitator Yahoo Group:

[email protected]

This is a global email group of Facilitators. Join to send out

communications to a large number of Facilitators world-wide, or to read

communications from them. You can choose to receive only a daily

digest of these e-mails if preferable. Heres the URL for the Yahoo

Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/awakening_the_dreamer/. You

can request to joinand please identify what training group you were

part of, in your request to the moderator.

9. Online videos: https://vimeo.com/pachapeople

View our online videos, including the Symposium trailer.

Support

You can find all the tools you need at the Facilitator Resources hub

(http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators) which also includes a Frquently Asked

Questions section. If you still need help, you can always reach is via email at

[email protected]

Your Feedback

Once your Symposium has taken place, please remember to fill out the Event

Completion Report


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(https://docs.google.com/a/pachamama.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE9H

eE1qS3lDYVcwZi1VaUxsejVUQkE6MQ#gid=0), which you will receive

automatically from the Event system after your event. You can also access this

report in My Events. Your feedback on the outcome of your Symposiums is an

integral element of the process to further develop the Symposium.

Registration and Login for the Facilitators

Hub

Go to the Pachamama website and log in to the Facilitators section located on the

top right of the home page. Select either:

1. Register and create your profile for first time users:

http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators/register

2. If youre already registered, log in here:

http://www.pachamama.org/facilitators

Using the events map to post and manage events:

Once logged in to the Facilitators Hub, you can post and publicize your symposium

(or other events) on the Pachamama website so that people can search and sign

up for them. You can do this by following these steps:

1) From the My Events section to the left of the page you can:

a. Add new events

b. View and edit upcoming events (that you have already saved as

a draft or published)

c. View and manage all your past events, including updating final

attendee numbers, downloading attendee lists and giving us your

feedback and suggestions.

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3) From here, you can also add and delete individual attendees, or contact

all attendees (you can also edit attendees and download their details

from the past events section once your event has passed).

NOTE: Attendees can choose whether or not to allow you to see their email

address. If they have chosen to keep their contact information private, you will still

be able to contact them through the Email All Attendees function.

4) When you edit your event, you will have the option at that time of

emailing all attendees regarding your changes.

NOTE: The Events system automatically sends confirmation emails to all event

attendees upon their registration for your event. Attendees will also receive a

reminder two days before the event. If the event is cancelled, they automatically

receive a cancellation notice.

Poems

Keeping SilentNow we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,

let's not speak in any language;

let's stop for a second,

and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment

without rush, without engines;

we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whales

and the man gathering salt would not look at his hurt hands.


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Those who prepare green wars,

wars with gas, wars with fire,

victories with no survivors,

would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers

in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.

life is what it is about.....

If we were not so single minded about keeping our lives moving,

and for once could do nothing,

perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness

of never understanding ourselves

and of threatening ourselves with death.

Perhaps the earth can teach us,

as when everything seems dead in winter and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve

and you keep quiet and I will go.

Pablo Neruda


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This Love Between Us

This love between us

goes back to before the first humans.

It has no beginning;

It has no ending.

As the river flows into the sea,

what flows in you, flows in me.

Kabir

There Is a Brokenness

There is a brokenness

out of which comes the unbroken,

a shatteredness out

of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow

beyond all grief which leads to joy

and a fragility

out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space

too vast for words

through which we pass with each loss,


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out of whose darkness

we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound

whose serrated edges cut the heart

as we break open to the place inside

which is unbreakable and whole,

while learning to sing.

Rashani

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,


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are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Loaves and Fishes

This is not the age of information.

This is not

the age of information.

Forget the news,

and the radio,

and the blurred screen.

This is the time

of loaves

and fishes.


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People are hungry,

and one good word is bread

for a thousand.

David Whyte

This Being Human is a Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be cleaning you out

for some new delight.


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The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

When I Was the Stream

When I was the stream, when I was the forest,

when I was still the field, when I was every hoof,

foot, fin, and wing, when I was the sky itself;

No one ever asked me did I have a purpose,

no one ever wondered was there anything I might need . . .

for there was nothing I could not love.

It was when I left all we once were that the agony began,

that the fear and questions came and I wept. I wept.

And tears I had never known before.


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were making white combs

and sweet honey

from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that a fiery sun was giving

light inside my heart.

It was fiery because I felt

warmth as from a hearth,

and sun because it gave light

and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I slept,

I dreamt - marvelous error! -

that it was God I had

here inside my heart.

Antonio Machado,

translated by Robert Bly

LostStand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you

Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,


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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHell begins the day that God grants you the vision

to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but

did not do.

Joseph CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the

Universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Louis PasteurLet me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength

lies solely in my tenacity.

Mahatma GandhiThe goal ever recedes from us. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not

in the attainment. Full effort is full victory!. You must not worry whether the

desired result follows your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means

correct!. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an

indomitable will.

Mahatma GandhiOne cannot do right in one department of life whilst he isoccupied in doing wrong in any other department of life. Life is one indivisible

whole.

Mahatma GandhiWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of

truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murders and for a

time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fail. Think of it: always.

Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from

an indomitable will.

Margaret MeadYou can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can onlysave the whole world.

Margaret MeadNever doubt that a small band of committed people can change

the world. Indeed, nothing else ever has.

Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps

life moving, you

lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so

today I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Youdont have to have a college degree to serve. You dont have to make your subject

and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace; a soul generated

by love.


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The Pachamama Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. Its mission is to empower

indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and using insights gained from that

Mother TeresaPrayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to work as if

everything depended on youand leave the rest to God.

R.Buckminster FullerIf the success or failure of this planet and of human beings

depended on how I am and what I do, How would I be? What would I do?

Thomas BerryOur life has been given to us, not earned. How we live is about how

we respond to this gift.

Thurman WhitmanDont ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what

makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is

people who have come alive.

William JamesThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can

alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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